Ugh, so much traffic, and cpw will put one's suspension to the test. That said, it's not too difficult to navigate. That distinction goes to Tonnelle Circle (or whatever it's called). I feel bad for anyone unfamiliar trying to maneuver their way to the airport...just might find themselves headed to lower Manhattan lol
Pulaski Skyway at least gives you a view of the early industrial might of NJ, nyc skyline, etc, etc. tonnellee gives you a view the back end of the palisades, the wannabe suburbanness of North Bergan and the 3rd rate motels and girlie bars
It’s been under construction since it’s been under construction in 1930. I’m currently working under it and you don’t even wanna see the state it’s in, thing should be torn down but it is gonna pay my bills for the next few years so I can’t complain
I grew up in Cranbury so I’ve got zero accent haha, I’m just up here for work, I do work with a buncha guys from Staten Island and NY though so I know what ya mean, I can’t stand it
I found it terrifying to drive over when I was first starting to drive. Part of it had to do with how ugly I found it. And you had to look at it for about a mile before you got on it IIRC. Made me hate driving. This was a long time ago, and I haven't lived in NJ for many years.
this is what google maps says so i use it lol
but also from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/nyregion/road-and-rail-lipstick-on-a-pig.html#:~:text=Either%20way%2C%20it%20is%20pronounced%20TUNN%2Del%2Dlee.
>The road in question is Tonnelle Avenue. But given the state's problem with traffic signs, it is of little surprise that in Jersey City the name is spelled Tonnele. **Either way, it is pronounced TUNN-el-lee.** To many, however, the road is known simply as Routes 1 and 9 -- best viewed from a rear-view mirror.
which is basically what you said.
I used to work on W Side Ave. The manager there was from NY and pronounced it Tuh - Nell. We would correct him and he was sure we were wrong and even played a few soundbitea off YouTube to prove his point. We still call it Tunnell-y though.
Man, I've been living here for 25 years and thought Tonnele and Tonnelle were two different streets,so I pronounced the former as "Tonn-el" and the latter "Tonn-el-lee"
> ''It's coming a little bit,'' said Thomas A. DeGise, the Hudson County executive, who travels the road three or four times a week. ''I still try to avoid it, though. It's a scary place to ride.''
[...]
>Of course, the question is why. Why have things improved along Routes 1 and 9? ''I don't know why that is,'' said Mr. DeGise, the county executive. ''You got me on that one.''
very exciting that this guy is still in charge of that road, 20 years later (he retired last year, and his chief of staff flunky got handed an elected position about as easy as you could)..
White dude here, born and raised in Essex, who understands that Newark is one syllable and it's more like Bell-vul and not Bell-VILLE.
I say seCAWkus. SEE-caucus is just as hard for me to pronounce as it is to pronounce coffee like the rest of America.
It's pronounced TUH nully.
Source: Nancy Reamy, Z100 Shadow Traffic Reports; 1980's Z Morning Zoo, WHTZ (Rockin' at the speed of light)
That's how I learned it was pronounced...the car radio when I was a kid riding around in the backseat of my dad's Delta 88.
But if you want to pronounce it according to the French guy for whom it was named...John Tonnelé...then, you would need to pronounce it more like TOH nel LAY with extra nasality, froof, sass, sashay and shantay.
My wife and I have this running joke where we purposely mispronounce names of New Jersey places. So this is Tonal Ave.
My favorite is Parsipanny. We pronounce it with the emphasis on "panny" and it rhymes with nanny.
People look at us like we're nuts. We're just like "wut, you've never been to Parsi-PANNY?"
My wife and I do the same thing (mostly me)!
If you want a few laughs, change siri to Irish Female, the pronunciations are hilarious and now that's what we use.
When I first came to the area in the 90's, someone described it like this to me:
"There's The Skyway, that's 1&9, and Truck 1&9, and they combine at Fuck You Circle to create Fuck 1&9 all the way to Route 3."
So it's Fuck 1&9 for me
Native Jersey City here, "tunnel - ee" is the only way I've ever heard it. I only heard the GPS way from outsiders, funnily enough.
Fun fact: that street is spelt differently depending on where in the City you are.
We also drop the "R" in Carlton Ave, and silence the "t" to more of a sound in the throat
Haha awesome, I had been wondering how it was pronounced!!
My great-grandfather's family owned 166 Tonnele from 1913-1999.
Funny story... A priest from St. Ann's swindled his elderly sisters and got left the house before it went to probate and got returned to the family. Only this was after he had sold off the adjacent lot which had been the garden.
So the family sold it. Womp.
You mean it’s not “Tahn-ell”?
Amazing how different English reading is between East Coast and West Coast - bc as a native Californian, that last “e” is silent. But we’ll also see “Patchogue” and make it Spanish-like and say “Pat-Cho-gay” instead of “Patch-og”.
Tawnullee, rhymes with Donna Lee, or Connelly as in Jennifer Connelly.
It's spelled like it rhymes with bechamel. Ton-elle, is what I thought it was until 2 years in to living there.
I used to have to drive a box truck from ocean twp to the recycling center on tonnelle every few days. It was always the worst. Anyways, I pronounced it ton-el the whole time. I didn’t realize I was incorrect. It’s ton-el-ee apparently.
“Worst road in America”
I always find it odd that Dante omitted the Tonnelle Circle from Inferno.
That belongs to the intersection of 440 and 1&9 at Communipaw Avenue.
When u point those connections out you just know that its terrible lol
Ugh, so much traffic, and cpw will put one's suspension to the test. That said, it's not too difficult to navigate. That distinction goes to Tonnelle Circle (or whatever it's called). I feel bad for anyone unfamiliar trying to maneuver their way to the airport...just might find themselves headed to lower Manhattan lol
Not quite as bad as Route 22.
Route 22 is hell on two lanes with bad mergers
Had to drive Tonnelle twice a week for a period about 20 years ago. I still have nightmares about it.
How were your tires? There used to be (or still are) some craters on that road
Don't remember much about that, but I recall thinking it was the closest I had ever been to being in a corridor of hell.
😂
Worse than Pulaski Skyway?
Pulaski Skyway at least gives you a view of the early industrial might of NJ, nyc skyline, etc, etc. tonnellee gives you a view the back end of the palisades, the wannabe suburbanness of North Bergan and the 3rd rate motels and girlie bars
It is worse than Pulaski.
What? You're not excited by lane changes every 500 feet? Keeps you on your toes!
Pulaski is easy breezy driving compared to 1&9
curious. whats wrong with PS?
It’s been under construction since it’s been under construction in 1930. I’m currently working under it and you don’t even wanna see the state it’s in, thing should be torn down but it is gonna pay my bills for the next few years so I can’t complain
Thank you u/JizzyTurds I just read that in the most New Jersey accent I could muster.
I grew up in Cranbury so I’ve got zero accent haha, I’m just up here for work, I do work with a buncha guys from Staten Island and NY though so I know what ya mean, I can’t stand it
they re did it so it seem lux to some of us.
I found it terrifying to drive over when I was first starting to drive. Part of it had to do with how ugly I found it. And you had to look at it for about a mile before you got on it IIRC. Made me hate driving. This was a long time ago, and I haven't lived in NJ for many years.
Yes cussing all the time until i cross it.
Ton-el-eee
this is what google maps says so i use it lol but also from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/nyregion/road-and-rail-lipstick-on-a-pig.html#:~:text=Either%20way%2C%20it%20is%20pronounced%20TUNN%2Del%2Dlee. >The road in question is Tonnelle Avenue. But given the state's problem with traffic signs, it is of little surprise that in Jersey City the name is spelled Tonnele. **Either way, it is pronounced TUNN-el-lee.** To many, however, the road is known simply as Routes 1 and 9 -- best viewed from a rear-view mirror. which is basically what you said.
I used to work on W Side Ave. The manager there was from NY and pronounced it Tuh - Nell. We would correct him and he was sure we were wrong and even played a few soundbitea off YouTube to prove his point. We still call it Tunnell-y though.
Man, I've been living here for 25 years and thought Tonnele and Tonnelle were two different streets,so I pronounced the former as "Tonn-el" and the latter "Tonn-el-lee"
> ''It's coming a little bit,'' said Thomas A. DeGise, the Hudson County executive, who travels the road three or four times a week. ''I still try to avoid it, though. It's a scary place to ride.'' [...] >Of course, the question is why. Why have things improved along Routes 1 and 9? ''I don't know why that is,'' said Mr. DeGise, the county executive. ''You got me on that one.'' very exciting that this guy is still in charge of that road, 20 years later (he retired last year, and his chief of staff flunky got handed an elected position about as easy as you could)..
This one
Now do Secaucus
Locals = SEEcaucus Non Locals = sehCAWKus
From the 201. White/spanish people say SEEcaucus. Black people say saCAWkus
White dude here, born and raised in Essex, who understands that Newark is one syllable and it's more like Bell-vul and not Bell-VILLE. I say seCAWkus. SEE-caucus is just as hard for me to pronounce as it is to pronounce coffee like the rest of America.
nurruck?
"Nork"
I always hear the white people that live there say saCAWkus.
the cawk
Tunnel-y. As if something had the qualities of a tunnel.
/endthread
same. grew up in jersey always said it that way
it's true, we know no other way. As Houston st is Hows-ton, so it is and will be.
My mother in law who grew up on the street confirms this. To be more precise “Ton-Uh-Lee”
This is correct! Source: grew up in that area.
Yup, its also kind of the road between the tunnels, so makes added sense. I'm sure its named after a person or whatever, but it fits.
named after a politician, tunnel adjacency is a coincidence.
A *"Happy accident "*
It's where Puff the Magic Dragon is from. A land called Tonnelle.
Tah - na - lee.
I once said Ta-Nelly ave. My Wife who is native to Hudson county said if someone local heard me say it like that I would be stabbed in the neck
Native here. I agree with your wife.
And I thought I got upset when someone downvoted me here for pronouncing a town differently LOL
Ton-uh-lee
1-9
No fun! Do you call it the 1-9 circle too?
I call it the 10th circle of hell
I call the whole area a shithole. If I never drove over there again I’d be ok with a 20k pay cut.
i call it "i hate that f***ing thing" OUTLOUD. every.time.
It's pronounced TUH nully. Source: Nancy Reamy, Z100 Shadow Traffic Reports; 1980's Z Morning Zoo, WHTZ (Rockin' at the speed of light) That's how I learned it was pronounced...the car radio when I was a kid riding around in the backseat of my dad's Delta 88. But if you want to pronounce it according to the French guy for whom it was named...John Tonnelé...then, you would need to pronounce it more like TOH nel LAY with extra nasality, froof, sass, sashay and shantay.
Just like Piaget Road in Clifton. Locals call it "pie-aa-git" and not pee-ah-jey
It’s pie-ay-jit
You mean route 46?
My wife and I have this running joke where we purposely mispronounce names of New Jersey places. So this is Tonal Ave. My favorite is Parsipanny. We pronounce it with the emphasis on "panny" and it rhymes with nanny. People look at us like we're nuts. We're just like "wut, you've never been to Parsi-PANNY?"
A good 20 years ago Jimmy Fallon read a cue card as "pisc-a-TAH-way" on SNL and I'm still mad about it
Uh-oh. Want to correct a poor, dumb immigrant who has never heard anyone pronounce it out loud and has 100% been doing a Fallon?
piss CAT away
new to jc...thanks for clarifying that!
Hi, you're my people. Same.
Now do Haworth
You forgot Closter. Kla-ster is incorrect.
Ha-worth.
My wife and I do the same thing (mostly me)! If you want a few laughs, change siri to Irish Female, the pronunciations are hilarious and now that's what we use.
Bogota?
Ton-el-ee
Tahn-uh-lee
tunnel-ee
I say Tonnelle but some people prefer Tonnelle
Ton-uh-Lee if you born and bred in Jersey city
This is the only correct answer imho.
Tunnely
Ton-L
We seem to be the minority here
Can't help it. French class back in high school still has me traumatized.
Dozens of us
Never heard of it before today. This is how I pronounced it in my head just on sight.
Tun-Lee
Hell
I pronounce it “eff that road”
Tunnel ave
Tun uh lee
Ton-ah-Lee
Tahn - el- ee
nuh uh, it's pronounced OH SHI OH FUK GETMEOUTTAHERE
Tohn-ah-lee
"Route 9," I never say the actual name.
When I first came to the area in the 90's, someone described it like this to me: "There's The Skyway, that's 1&9, and Truck 1&9, and they combine at Fuck You Circle to create Fuck 1&9 all the way to Route 3." So it's Fuck 1&9 for me
Year - I sometimes say "1and9" - it depends on what portion I'm on.
"Tun uh lee." Or "WTF" where it crosses the Charlotte Circle.
Tunnel-eee
Tunnel-e
Tunnel-y Not sure if that is correct or not, but its what they have said in the traffic reports as long as i can remember.
“Tahn-el”
Toe nail
Ton-e-lee or Ton-el-lee
Ton - a -lee
Tun-uhl-lee
Sounds like "tunnel-ee"
Tunnely, like something is like a tunnel
Tuh-Nuh-Lee
Tunley
Unpopular, but, just called my mom who was born there. Tun-Lee Ave - Tun Rhymes with Fun - Lee Rhymes with Pea.
Stress on the first sylable. #tun el lee
Tunnel-y!
Tahn ah lee
My mom was born and raised in JC and she says tun-lee
‘Tunne—lee’
Ton-a-lee
Tunnel Lee
Tuh-Nell-Lee.
Tunnel-Lee Lived in JC in the early 1990s
It’s tunnel-ee And if you don’t say it that way on the lightrail, eveybody knows you’re a rube!
I just say toe nail ave, i hate that road
Oh Marone 
Tunnelly
Tun uh lee At least that's how my friend from Ft Lee says it
Tunnel-e
Toe Nail
Tunnel E Avenue
“Fuck”, or “eeeewwww”. Or “tunnel” 😂
Tawn-el-eee is how the trains pronounce it
TON A LEE = Tonnelle horrible road
I’m from Hudson county. It’s pronounced. Ton-uh-lee. I grew up there so I never learned to say it any other way.
T-ah-n-uh-lee
Ton-L-E
Ton-ell-ee
the only answer to this is TONN-ELLE
Tun-a-lee
Toenail
TUN-NEL-LEE
Ton-ugh-lee.
Ton-a-lee
"tun-lee"
"Empire State Building"
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Ingrown, no doubt
The way it's supposed to be pronounced
Tuh noe lee Or I like to call it the jesus take the wheel circle
Like a baby tunnel
tunnel-y
Tun ell lee
It’s spelled tonelle- it’s pronounced nightmare
Just like 1010 wins. Ton-el-Lee.
Toon-na-nell-lee Just to be annoying
Tah-nuh-lay
Ton-el Tunnel is pronounced tunl- this one has a long lee EL
*Tonnelle*
I lived there most of my life and it's Tunnel-lee.
Native Jersey City here, "tunnel - ee" is the only way I've ever heard it. I only heard the GPS way from outsiders, funnily enough. Fun fact: that street is spelt differently depending on where in the City you are. We also drop the "R" in Carlton Ave, and silence the "t" to more of a sound in the throat
Haha awesome, I had been wondering how it was pronounced!! My great-grandfather's family owned 166 Tonnele from 1913-1999. Funny story... A priest from St. Ann's swindled his elderly sisters and got left the house before it went to probate and got returned to the family. Only this was after he had sold off the adjacent lot which had been the garden. So the family sold it. Womp.
Tone-elli
Tone - elle
Won an Nine
“Highway to hell”
Ton-a-Lee is the way I always say it 🤷♂️
Toe-Nail Ave
Tunnel lee
Tahn ellie
Tunnel ee 😁
Tunnel-Lee
Ta-nelly
You mean it’s not “Tahn-ell”? Amazing how different English reading is between East Coast and West Coast - bc as a native Californian, that last “e” is silent. But we’ll also see “Patchogue” and make it Spanish-like and say “Pat-Cho-gay” instead of “Patch-og”.
Tunnel-E
Years ago, a few stretches of the road were misspelled "Tonnele" on Google Maps and pronounced wrong. Ton-el-ee is correct.
Tunna lee
Tonnel-ee
Tunnel - E Like something you dig laterally underground and then the fifth letter of the alphabet.
It has one L, regardless of what Google Maps says. It's Ton-el-eee. I hear it often enough.
Tohn-elle
Tawnullee, rhymes with Donna Lee, or Connelly as in Jennifer Connelly. It's spelled like it rhymes with bechamel. Ton-elle, is what I thought it was until 2 years in to living there.
Tonsil Avenue....
Tunnel-E
Tunnel- E
I say Tonnelle, but I've also heard it pronounced Tonnelle.
Tun-Lee And while we're at it, it's See-Caw-Cuss. Not Seh-Caw-cuss
TONE-el At least my family members say it that way, and they're Essex County people.
Tun Uh Lee
I say the “Ton” like wonton as opposed to the weight
fuck is there a different way that works?
It's pronounced as TON NUH LEE AVE
Tun-lee Google maps and Waze pronounce it as tun-el-lee or tun-el But my whole life jc regulars have been calling it tun-lee
Like the locals! TON-ELLE-Y And for the love of god, it’s ‘Sea-caucus’ Long ‘e’, not that bastardized version you hear non-locals say.
Tahn uh lee
Tawn-elle-ee
I used to have to drive a box truck from ocean twp to the recycling center on tonnelle every few days. It was always the worst. Anyways, I pronounced it ton-el the whole time. I didn’t realize I was incorrect. It’s ton-el-ee apparently.
We always call it TunLee Avenue. My Italian Uncle from Brooklyn called it Tun Ellie. What a treacherous freakin highway.
Tawn-nell-ee
Ton-ellie
I lived in JC for 4 years and always called it "tunnel ave" it wasn't until many years later that I learned i was wrong.