 A part of present @-@ day I @-@ 280 in Newark west of the Stickel Bridge was legislated as Route 25A in 1939 , a spur of Route 25 ( U.S. Route 1 / 9 ) that was to run from Jersey City west to Newark . This portion of road would become Route 58 in 1953 ( the Route 58 designation was removed in the 1990s ) . When the Interstate Highway System was being planned , the Route 3 freeway was planned to become an Interstate . The New Jersey State Highway Department favored the Essex Freeway instead between I @-@ 80 in Parsippany @-@ Troy Hills to I @-@ 95 in Kearny . The latter would become the Interstate and be designated I @-@ 280 . This road was built in the 1960s and completed west from Newark in 1973 . The portion east of Newark to the New Jersey Turnpike opened in 1980 . I @-@ 280 was once planned to continue east to I @-@ 78 near the Holland Tunnel but never was extended east of the New Jersey Turnpike . In the 2000s , the Stickel Bridge was reconstructed after the original structure was determined to be structurally deficient . Interstate 280 is one of two 3 digit interstate designations to appear on opposite coasts . Interstate 110 in California and Florida is the other one . 
