The early plans to link I-95 near the Delaware River would have run the highway through Trenton, Kornhauser said, but by 1964, slashing through urban centers was recognized as destructive. The proposal also drew the horror of residents in Hunterdon County, who thought the project would devastate the area's rustic landscape. In the late 1970s, the fight was fierce, Kornhauser said, and he noted that even his own suggestion to put the highway underground didn't placate opposition.