The main roadway heads east through North Bergen as a freeway with three lanes in the eastbound and westbound directions, maintained by the NJTA. Route 495 officially begins at the exit 16E off-ramp from the northbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike near the boundary of Secaucus and North Bergen. The beginning of eastbound Route 495 at the New Jersey Turnpike Since the Mid-Manhattan Expressway that would have connected the route to New York's I-495 (Long Island Expressway) was canceled, I-495 officially became New Jersey Route 495 in 1979, and the signs were changed in 1989. In 1959, the road was incorporated into the Interstate Highway System and was designated as part of Interstate 495 ( I-495). In 1952, the portion of the route west of Route 3 was opened when the New Jersey Turnpike was completed. In that same year, the routeвЂ™s path was extended west to Route 3 and it became an eastern extension of that route. In 1939, the section known as The Helix was finished, which is an oval-shaped loop that descends Route 495 down to the Toll Plaza for the tunnel, into the entrance of the tunnel. The first portion of the present-day Route 495, at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, was constructed in 1937 when the Lincoln Tunnel opened. The bus lane, which runs the entire length of the freeway, continues into the Lincoln Tunnel's center tube.

Route 495 is mostly a six-lane freeway with a reversible bus lane used during the morning rush hour. The road is owned and operated by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) between the New Jersey Turnpike and Route 3, the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) between Route 3 and Park Avenue near the Union CityвЂ“Weehawken border, and by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) east of Park Avenue, including the helix used to descend the New Jersey Palisades to reach the entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel. Route 495 is a 3.45-mile-long (5.55В km) freeway in Hudson County, New Jersey, in the United States that connects the New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 95, I-95) at exits 16E and 17 in Secaucus to New York State Route 495 (NYВ 495) inside the Lincoln Tunnel in Weehawken, providing access to Midtown Manhattan in New York City. NYВ 495 at the New York state line in the Lincoln Tunnel

Lincoln tunnel