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Construction to rebuild a 12.5 mile section of Route 35 in Ocean County that was battered by Hurricane Sandy is among the projects that construction will continue on in 2015.

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The last hurrah of the state's Transportation Trust Fund will pour millions of dollars into highway and bridge construction in 2015 even as it runs out of money to do anything except pay off past debt.

But drivers will also see a pay-off, in the form of new lanes and rebuilt bridges scheduled to open next year.

Here's what you can expect in N.J. construction projects this year:

Work will continue on some of the major projects that started in 2014, such as the

Drivers who've endured shifting lanes as part of the

Parkway drivers will also see completion of the $57 million Bass River bridge replacement project in 2015, Feeney said.

Drivers using Route 46 in Bergen and Passaic counties will see their share of orange traffic cones with a $150 million to $200 million project to

In Ocean County, work will start after the summer beach season to replace the

The DOT will embark on a complicated $105 million project to

On the Parkway, work continues on the

Work also continues on the $131 million to build a new southbound Great Egg Harbor Bridge in Upper Township and Somers Point, which is scheduled for completion in mid-2016. Plans call for rehabilitation the existing northbound bridge and demolishing the old south bound span.

Plans also call for rebuilding five interchanges on the Turnpike and construction on nine Parkway exits.

Work to

Drivers will see work at the busy interchange 15W to Newark, the Oranges and I-280 and 16W to Route 3 in Rutherford starting in 2015 after a $12.6 million contract was awarded last year, Feeney said.

At interchange 15W, ramps will be realigned and a median barrier extended to prevent trucks from overturning, and to improve traffic flow. A ramp over the Berry's Creek canal will be widened to two lanes to accommodate traffic volume. Those projects are expect to be finished in 1016, Feeney said.

Work on a

A $12.3 million project to widen ramps from the toll plaza at interchange 10 the southbound Turnpike and realign other ramps to reduce weaving traffic was 50 percent done in October and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2015.

Bids are scheduled to be awarded in 2015 to start construction to reconfigure Turnpike Interchange 8A in Jamesburg to handle truck traffic to distribution centers in Middlesex County and to provide a better connection to Route 130, Feeney said.

At the very end of the Parkway in Cape May county, a project to reconstruct the intersection between Exit 0 and Route 109 in Lower Township is expected to go to bid for construction.

Up the Parkway in Middle Township, work continues at

In Galloway Township, $32.8 million in work to build new interchanges at exit 41 and 44 is wrapping up. Work to connect exit 41 with local roads is expected to be finished by the end of 2014 and building a full interchange at exit 44 is scheduled for completion on 2015, Feeney said.

In Tinton Falls, work on the first phase of a project to rebuild Exit 105 is expected to be finished in June 2015

A project will go out for bids in 2015 to build a bigger bridge to carry Central Avenue in East Orange over the Parkway. That work will allows construction of acceleration and deceleration lanes to Exit 145 for I-280 by moving bridge abutments and eliminating a pillar from the center of the highway.

One of the last remaining left lane exits on the Parkway to Route 17 is heading for the history books. Work started on the $67.9 million project to move Exit 163 to the right side of the parkway. To do that, six new bridges will be constructed and the superstructure on four existing bridges will be replaced. That work started in mid-2014 and is scheduled to be finished in mid-2017.

Larry Higgs may be reached at lhiggs@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @commutinglarry. Find NJ.com on Facebook.