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Since the 1970s, proposals have arisen to revive the Route 60 freeway. In 2007, the
Western/Southern Cumberland Regional Planning proposed a new freeway spur from the constructed Route 55 Freeway to the community of
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brought together a proposed set of freeways across the state of New Jersey in 1960. One proposal set forth was of a freeway connecting
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