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Fri 9/4 from 12:01A until 4A – RTE 17 CLOSED – Both Directions: for GS Parkway work. Detours posted.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority and the New Jersey State Department of Transportation advise that Route 17 at the Garden State Parkway (Paramus) will be closed in both directions on Friday morning, September 4th, from 12:01 a.m. until 4 a.m. due to the ongoing Garden State Parkway Interchange 163 Improvement Project.

The detour will be via Farview Avenue between Century Road and Midland Avenue in both directions.

There will be lane closures starting at 9 p.m. on Thursday, September 3rd, until 6 a.m. Friday morning, September 4th. Also, expect exit ramp closures on the parkway at Exit 163 in both directions during the full closure of Route 17.

April 26,2015

If you’re ever taking a nighttime drive along New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway, keep your eyes peeled as you approach Exit 82, and with any luck — or maybe lack of it — you’ll see one of New Jersey’s most often seen ghosts, the “Parkway Phantom.”According to Asbury Park Press, many of New Jersey’s “most notable ghosts,” such as the Parkway Phantom, are said to haunt the realms of New Jersey’s roads and highways, likely because that’s where the human vessel the ghost once occupied experienced some dire trauma, leaving its body no longer working or, in other words, dead.

New Jersey motorists have been reporting roadside apparitions and highway ghosts like the Parkway Phantom for decades, the ghosts apparently having no choice but to wander the area of road where their death occurred. Perhaps they don’t realize, or understand, that their turn at life has come to a traumatic halt, and no matter how much they wave and try to flag down the help of passing New Jersey motorists, their transition to ghost has put hope out of reach.

Route 17 to be Closed in Both Directions from 12am to 4am Friday September 4th in Paramus at Garden State Parkway Entrance

New Jersey Ghost: ‘Parkway Phantom’ Haunts New Jersey’s Famous Garden State Parkway