CORRECTION:Origins of the Jersey Barrier

As one old-timer relates the history, the JB came out of a a long record of smashes in the early 1950s on NJ-4 and NJ-17, a pair of dual roadway arterials in far northeast NJ (Bergen co) that cross in the Rochelle Park/Paramus area very near to IC-161 of the Garden State Parkway.

After a well-publicized multi-fatality head-on near the NJ-4/NJ-17 intersection NJHD engineers, in response to the accident furore, experimented with various concrete barrier shapes. Their solution was first installed near there in 1955.