thank unchecked rampant development in the 1980s and 1990s for most of that. the road network that exists around here was fine for the levels of traffic and devleopment that existed until then, when the children of retiring farmers did not want to continue that business and developers were paying through the nose for land, so all that farmland got sold, overdeveloped with sprawl, and now here we are. and it's not changing. major new freeway level development is pretty much going to be dead in new jersey forever at this point. nimbys will kill all of it as they killed the somerset freeway and many other projects.