. US 9 is one of only two US routes that presently comprises a ferry section (the other is US 10). But the original US 9 didn't go all the way to Delaware; for approximately the first six years the south end was at US 30 in Absecon NJ.
. So US 9 traffic no longer makes it into the town of Cape May; in its place it's routed west on Sandman and Lincoln Boulevards, and then US 9 carries on by turning off to the ferry landing:
. US 9 was amid the original 1926 routes. Back then, it split into two routes at Glens Falls, every running southward along contrary banks of the Hudson River.