.svg) Route 44T | ||||
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| Gloucester County Tunnel | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by New Jersey State Highway Department | ||||
| Existed | 1938-1939–by 1953 | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end | Pennsylvania state line in Paulsboro | |||
| East end |  Route 42 in Williamstown | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | New Jersey | |||
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Route 44T, also known as the Gloucester County Tunnel, was a proposed state highway and vehicular tunnel during the 1930s from Gloucester County, New Jersey to Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The route was to begin at the state line near Paulsboro, New Jersey, heading eastward as a freeway through several southern New Jersey communities and providing access from New Jersey Route 42 to the Delaware River.
The plans for the original freeway date back to 1930, when the original studies and requests were decided on by the New Jersey State Legislature. Plans soon followed in Pennsylvania, but after three years of receiving approval, the Gloucester County Tunnel experienced several setbacks. In 1938, the New Jersey State Legislature designated the State Highway Route 44-T designation, as a suffixed tunnel spur of New Jersey Route 44. By the 1953 renumbering, Route 44-T was already repealed and decommissioned while the tunnel was never constructed by the Gloucester County Tunnel Commission.