*This is all fictional and elaborated as what I think may have happened if the powers that be had decided to build these highways*

The need for a Bridgeton Bypass...

In 1965 the Route 49 corridor through Bridgeton was beginning to show signs of congestion and with the soon to be built Vineland International Airport the need for a bypass became clear.  Originally it was planned that Route 49 would follow a new limited access alignment, however with the close proximity to the planned Route 60 freeway, it was deemed unneccessary.  However, a bypass of Bridgeton was still needed to relieve downtown congestion and directly link with the planned Route 55/60 freeways.  At first the bypass was to carry the Route 49 designation but the NJDOT planned to extend the freeway beyond the old alignment to pass by the Vineland International Airport, which was already under construction.  The initial purpose of this was to provide direct access to the airport from the proposed major arteries of Cumberland County. The highway recieved a new designation, it would be known as Route 100.

Construction Begins... 

The freeway section from Route 55/60 to Route 49 (west of Bridgeton) began construction in 1969 and was accelerated to be open when the airport was completed.  Route 100 had many critics and was widely opposed by those who wanted the farms it was cutting through to remain untouched.  However, despite the objections, the freeway was completed by 1971, just in time for the opening of the airport.  Along with this freeway came another, built to connect with the terminal and parking areas, this remained unnamed for quite some time since it dead ended inside the airport property.  The NJDOT wished to begin construction of the remaining bypass, but budget cutbacks prevented them from doing so.  The traffic in downtown Bridgeton continued to worsen.

Missing pieces... 

For over a decade Route 100 had a stub end at Route 49, due to budget constraints, as well as community opposition.  The residents of the surrounding area did not want another freeway to create sprawl.  By the mid 1980's Vineland and it's surrounding neighbors Millville and Bridgeton, had become much larger thanks to the help of Route 55/60.  South Jersey's economy was booming, and the traffic on Route 49 was becoming a big problem.  Impossible to widen the small highway, NJDOT revived the plans in 1992 to extend Route 100 from it's present stub end at Exit 13 to just past Shiloh where it would merge back in with Route 49.  This bypass would effectively reduce congestion in downtown Bridgeton from those trying to reach Vineland or the airport.  This plan did not come without opposition, residents were still intent on not letting more freeways congest their backyards.  The NJDOT also faced a problem financially of how they were going to build the remaining 13 miles of highway.  A solution came in the spring of 1994, when officials from Dover, DE approached the state of NJ to make another connection across the Delaware Bay.  The Ferry at Cape May was becoming clogged, and reaching the Delaware Memorial Bridge was out of traveler's ways.  Delaware also knew it would bring more growth to the otherwise desolate state.  The plans called for a seven mile long bridge to cross the Delaware Bay just east of the city of Dover, it would utilize the existing successful plans that brought Interstate 66 from Washington D.C. to the Delaware Capital.  Therefore, Interstate 66 would continue across this new bridge into NJ and be financed mostly by federal money.  To facilitate this new crossing the federal money helped pay for the extension of Route 100, since it would act as a feeder to Interstate 66.  Also at this time plans were made to extend the Airport Connector further north to Route 60 east of Rosenhayn, this project's finances the NJDOT and Airport would share.  It would greatly reduce the congestion occuring from those trying to reach the now bustling Vineland International Airport.  The Airport Connector would be designated Route 160, to better associate it with the major east-west freeway.  Construction began on all the highways in summer of 1997 and except for Interstate 66 were finished by summer of 2000. 

Success and Transcontinental service... 

The two projects proved to be hugely successful and greatly reduced congestion on local streets, and provided quick and easy access to the airport and surrounding areas. Interstate 66 opened in summer of 2002, having a toll of $7.00 it carried traffic between the two developing cities.  To mitigate any potential impact on the wetlands by development, medians were kept wide with wildlife underpasses, and the exits were kept to a minimum on both Interstate 66 and Route 100.  Officials had hoped to carry the Interstate 66 designation onto Route 100 and then extend it to Atlantic City somehow, but those soon fell through, mostly because other highways already fulfilled that corridor, and the original section of Route 100 was so well known by the public, that it didn't seem necessary to renumber it. To this day, Route 100 acts as a vital highway in the Vineland Metro area.

Here is the BGS going eastbound on Route 49 right before the split for the Route 100 freeway 

Here Route 100 would begin by splitting from Route 49.  By doing so it provides a bypass of Bridgeton and the small town of Shiloh.  Signs would only list this as Exit 0 going westbound on the freeway.

Interchange with Route 77, which was extended down CR 609 and onto CR 553 to Interstate 66.  Here a modified cloverleaf is used due to it's proximity to the Country Club.

Route 100 remained for many years a stub end at Route 49.  Significant congestion began to occur through the 1980's.  A weaving problem began to occur at the unfinished cloverleaf, as Route 49 (eastbound) traffic entering Route 100 crossed those exiting it.  Eventually the interchange was finished in summer of 2000 to correspond with the extension to meet Interstate 66 and bypass Bridgeton..

This was a normal single lane trumpet when the airport and Route 100 opened, but when the newly designated Route 160 was extended to meet Route 60, this trumpet had to be modified and expanded to handle more lanes of traffic.

As you approach the exit for the airport (going eastbound), a large overhead sign would alert drivers of Route 100's end at the multiplexed Route 55/60.  Also a sign would be in place to direct drivers onto Route 160 towards the terminals.

Here Route 100 ends at the multiplexed Route 55/60.  Each ramp here would be two lanes wide to provide the best flow of traffic.  Priority is given to those heading from Route 55/60 (northbound) to Route 100 (westbound) and vice versa.