U.S. Route 1/9 (
US 1/9) is the long
concurrency of
US 1 and
US 9 from their junction in
Woodbridge Township,
Middlesex County,
New Jersey north to
New York City. The route is a multilane road, with some freeway portions, that runs through urbanized areas of northern New Jersey adjacent to New York City. Throughout most of its length in New Jersey, the road runs near the
New Jersey Turnpike/
Interstate 95 (I-95). In
Fort Lee, US 1/9 merges onto I-95 and crosses the
Hudson River on the
George Washington Bridge, where the two U.S. routes split a short distance into New York. US 1/9 intersects several major roads, including
I-278 in
Linden,
Route 81 in
Elizabeth,
I-78 and
US 22 in
Newark,
Route 139 in
Jersey City,
Route 3 and
Route 495 in
North Bergen, and
US 46 in
Palisades Park. Between Newark and Jersey City, US 1/9 runs along the
Pulaski Skyway. Trucks are banned from this section of road and must use
US 1/9 Truck. The concurrency between US 1 and US 9 is commonly referred to as "1 and 9". Some signage for the concurrency, as well as the truck route, combines the two roads into one shield, separated by a hyphen (1-9) or an ampersand (1&9).