Editing New Jersey Route 120 (section)

== Route description ==
[[File:2021-08-24 17 43 23 View north along New Jersey State Route 120 from the overpass for Peripheral Road-American Dream Way in East Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|left|View northbound along Route 120 past Route 3 in East Rutherford. [[MetLife Stadium]] is on the left, and [[American Dream Meadowlands]] is on the right.]]
Route 120 begins at an interchange with the [[New Jersey Turnpike]] and [[New Jersey Route 3|Route 3]], heading north-northeast on a six-lane [[controlled-access highway|freeway]] through the [[Meadowlands Sports Complex]].<ref name="sld"/> Here, [[MetLife Stadium]], home field of the [[New York Giants]] and [[New York Jets]] of the [[National Football League]], and the [[Meadowlands station]] at the terminus of [[NJ Transit]]'s [[Meadowlands Rail Line]] is on the west side of the road, while the closed [[Meadowlands Arena]] and the [[American Dream Meadowlands|American Dream]] shopping and entertainment complex are on the east side of the road.<ref name=gm>{{google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=NJ-3+E+%26+Rte-3+E,+East+Rutherford,+Bergen,+New+Jersey+07073&daddr=40.824072,-74.073086+to:11th+street+and+route+120+carlstadt,+nj&geocode=FROmbgId6bKV-w%3B%3B&hl=en&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=13&via=1&sll=40.818065,-74.087495&sspn=0.057421,0.110035&ie=UTF8&ll=40.820435,-74.074974&spn=0.028709,0.055017&t=h&z=14|title=overview of New Jersey Route 120|access-date=June 30, 2009}}</ref> There is an exit for an access road to the complex. The freeway comes to an end at an interchange where the road continues northeast into [[Moonachie, New Jersey|Moonachie]] as [[County Route 503 (New Jersey)|County Route 503]] (Washington Avenue), while Route 120 exits onto [[Paterson Plank Road]] and heads northwest as a four-lane [[arterial road]] along the border of [[Carlstadt, New Jersey|Carlstadt]] to the northeast and East Rutherford to the southwest.

[[File:2018-07-20 08 46 36 View north along New Jersey State Route 120 (Paterson Plank Road) just north of Bergen County Route 503 (Washington Avenue) on the border of East Rutherford and Carlstadt in Bergen County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|View northbound along Route 120 past CR 503 in East Rutherford]]
Route 120 passes one of [[Meadowlands Racetrack]]'s grandstands and parallels NJ Transit's Meadowlands Rail Line on the East Rutherford side of the road, while commercial and industrial development dominates the Carlstadt side of the road, intersecting with Gotham Parkway. The route has a southbound exit and entrance to the Meadowlands Sports Complex before it crosses [[Berrys Creek]]. Upon crossing the creek, Route 120 continues northwest through more commercial and industrial development, intersecting with Murray Hill Parkway towards East Rutherford and 20th Street towards Carlstadt.<ref name=gm/> A short distance past this intersection, the road becomes a four-lane undivided surface road that crosses over NJ Transit’s [[Pascack Valley Line]] before coming to an interchange with [[New Jersey Route 17|Route 17]].<ref name="sld"/><ref name=gm/> Here, Route 120 terminates and County Route 120 continues to the west as Paterson Avenue.<ref name="sld"/>

=== County Route 120 ===
Bergen County Route 120, separate from State Route 120, is an east-west route that begins at its western point along the border between Bergen and Passaic Counties, and heads east. After crossing the [[Passaic River]] into Bergen County, the road is called Paterson Avenue in [[Wallington, New Jersey|Wallington]], and heads east through a residential and low-density commercial area. The road becomes the border between Wallington to the north and [[East Rutherford, New Jersey|East Rutherford]] to the south. At the end of Wallington, Paterson Avenue is the border between [[Carlstadt, New Jersey|Carlstadt]] and [[East Rutherford, New Jersey|East Rutherford]] for a short distance but then the road dips into East Rutherford to avoid a hill (the bypass, which goes over the hill, is called Hoboken Road). The road returns to the Carlstadt/East Rutherford border at [[Route 17 (New Jersey)|Route 17]] which it crosses over via an overpass, and then meets up with the northern/western terminus of Route 120 and [[Paterson Plank Road]].<ref name="cr120sld">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/02000120__-.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018163646/http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/02000120__-.pdf |archive-date=2012-10-18 |url-status=live |title=County Route 120 Straight Line Diagram|year=2009|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|pages=1|access-date=December 7, 2009|location=Trenton, New Jersey}}</ref> While the roadway is named Paterson Avenue and not Paterson Plank Road, CR 120 still a part of Paterson Plank Road and the original plans of the road from Paterson to New York City.