Page "New Jersey Route 38" Paragraph 7

In 1938, Route 38 was legislated to extend from East Hampton to Route 4N ( now Route 71 ) on Wall Township, Monmouth County.

A section of this was built, running between Route 34 and Route 35 in Wall Township.

The Route 38 freeway was then planned in 1961 to connect these two sections of Route 38.

It was to run from Interstate 80S ( now Interstate 676 ) in Camden east to the planned Route 35 freeway ( now Route 18 ) in Wall Township, providing a direct freeway connection between the Philadelphia area and the northern Jersey Shore.

The route of the freeway was to run east from the Ben Franklin Bridge, paralleling U. S. Route 30 and then Route 70.

It would then have run parallel to the current alignment of Route 38 through the Mount Holly area and then travel along the northern border of the Fort Dix Military Reservation to Jackson Township, Ocean County, where it would then follow the present alignment of Interstate 195 to Wall Township.

In the late 1960s, the eastern part of the Route 38 freeway became part of the proposed Interstate 195.