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From Jersey City to the GWB, take Kennedy Blvd north to 49th Street, turn right, then left on to Bergenline. This north to 79th Street, then right into the park (Braddock). Then successively bear left, right and left to line up on Palisade Avenue into Cliffside Park and Fort Lee. An alternate is to remain on Bergenline north into Bergen County, lining up onto Anderson Avenue into Cliffside and Fort Lee, then right onto Main Street for the bridge.

Also in Cliffside Park and Fort Lee, from Columbia/Lawton avenues in Cliffside to Gerome Avenue/Main Street in Fort Lee is the old trolley ROW, which is marked as Railroad Avenue in Cliffside and Abbott Boulevard in Fort Lee; this runs north-south between Palisade and Anderson and is a low-traffic alternate to the main roads.

An alternate to Bergenline in North Hudson is Boulevard East, which technically begins almost riverside at the Hoboken line but can be picked up from the equivalent of about 43rd Street (Clifton Terrace) in Weehawken, this can be followed up to Palisade Avenue at the north end of Braddock park, at Woodcliff Avenue. Awesome skyline views off to the east.

Once "up the hill" from the Jersey City Heights on north, it doesn't pay to descend to River Road only to have to ascend back to the bridge at the Edgewater/Fort Lee line, any of the above alternates should save some time in that regard.