🌉 Edison Bridge (New Jersey)

The Edison Bridge and the Vieser bridge are a pair of bridges that carry U.S. Route 9 over the Raritan River near its mouth in Raritan Bay in New Jersey. The bridge, which connects Woodbridge on the north with Sayreville on the south, was opened to weekend traffic starting on October 11, 1940, and was opened permanently on November 15, 1940. As of 2003, the bridge carries more than 82,000 vehicles daily and is owned and operated by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. It also runs directly parallel to the Driscoll Bridge, which carries the Garden State Parkway.