Editing Jefferson Township, New Jersey (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:2021-08-08 13 27 12 View south along New Jersey State Route 15 from the overpass for Espanong Road-Weldon Road in Jefferson Township, Morris County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|[[New Jersey Route 15|Route 15]] in Jefferson Township]]

===Roads and highways===
{{As of|2010|5}}, the township had a total of {{convert|133.62|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|112.52|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|12.77|mi}} by Morris County and {{convert|8.33|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Morris.pdf Morris County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed July 18, 2014.</ref>

A few major roads pass through Jefferson Township. [[Interstate 80 in New Jersey|Interstate 80]] passes through very briefly in the southern tip without any interchanges; the closest exits are 30 in [[Mount Arlington, New Jersey|Mount Arlington]] and 34 in neighboring [[Wharton, New Jersey|Wharton]].<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/transportation/refdata/sldiag/pdf/00000080__-.pdf#page=12 Interstate 80 Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], updated April 2014. Accessed December 29, 2024.</ref> State routes include [[New Jersey Route 15|Route 15]] (part of the "Sparta Bypass") in the southwest, [[New Jersey Route 23|Route 23]] in the northeast (as it straddles the [[Passaic County, New Jersey|Passaic County]] border) and [[New Jersey Route 181|Route 181]] in the southwest. Green Pond Road, officially [[County Route 513 (New Jersey)|CR 513]], is the only major county road that passes through for a short stretch in the northeast section.

===Public transportation===
[[NJ Transit]] had provided local bus service on the [[967 (New Jersey bus)|967]] and [[MCM7 (New Jersey bus)|MCM7]] routes, which was terminated in 2010 after subsidies to local route operators were eliminated as part of budget cuts.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090522212333/http://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=BusRoutesMorrisCountyTo Morris County Bus / Rail Connections], [[NJ Transit]], backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of May 22, 2009. Accessed August 7, 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.njtransit.com/var/var_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=ServiceChangesPvtCarrierTo Private Carrier Bus Service reductions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112224807/http://www.njtransit.com/var/var_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=ServiceChangesPvtCarrierTo |date=January 12, 2016 }}, [[NJ Transit]]. Accessed August 3, 2015.</ref>

[[Lakeland Bus Lines]] provides service along Interstate 80 operating between [[Newton, New Jersey|Newton]] and the [[Port Authority Bus Terminal]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref>[http://www.lakelandbus.com/bus-stops-lakeland-route-80 Bus Stops - Lakeland Rt 80 Newton to PABT] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006103013/http://www.lakelandbus.com/bus-stops-lakeland-route-80 |date=2015-10-06 }}, [[Lakeland Bus Lines]]. Accessed August 7, 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/bus/Morris_County_Map.pdf Morris County System Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619135922/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/bus/Morris_County_Map.pdf |date=June 19, 2015 }}, [[NJ Transit]]. Accessed August 7, 2015.</ref>