New Jersey Route 129 New Jersey Route 129 Route 129 is a major arterial boulevard state highway in the capital city of Trenton, New Jersey. The highway runs along Canal Boulevard, a four-lane arterial through portions of Trenton, serving as an alternative highway to its parent, Route 29. The route begins at an intersection with Lamberton Road in Hamilton Township, heads northward along the River Line maintained by New Jersey Transit until terminating at an interchange with U.S. Route 1 (the Trenton Freeway). The original use of Route 129 opened in 1961 on what is now Interstate 295 from the Scudder Falls Bridge to
New Jersey Chamber of Commerce in New Jersey. The guests board a chartered Amtrak train that leaves from Penn Station in Newark and then stops at various stations across New Jersey, as well as stops in Philadelphia and Wilmington. After the train arrives in the nation’s capital, guests have been joined by governors, state legislators, New Jersey’s Congressional delegation and other prominent business and political leaders from the Garden State for the annual Congressional Dinner. The Walk to Washington obtained its name when guests realized that few sit on the train; they literally walk up and down the train the whole trip to Washington. New