Editing Bethlehem Township, New Jersey (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:2018-06-14 14 13 38 View west along Interstate 78 and U.S. Route 22 (Phillipsburg-Newark Expressway) between Exit 11 and Exit 7 in Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|View west along [[Interstate 78 in New Jersey|Interstate 78]] / [[U.S. Route 22 in New Jersey|U.S. Route 22]] in Bethlehem Township]]

===Roads and highways===
{{As of|2010|5}}, the township had a total of {{convert|57.76|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|42.26|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|7.86|mi}} by Hunterdon County and {{convert|7.64|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Hunterdon.pdf Hunterdon County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed November 13, 2013.</ref>

Bethlehem Township is well-connected to major metropolitan areas and cities (such as the [[Lehigh Valley]] in [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New York City]]) via [[Interstate 78 in New Jersey|Interstate 78]] / [[U.S. Route 22 in New Jersey|U.S. Route 22]]<ref>[https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/pdf/00000078__-.pdf#page=3 Interstate 78 Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], updated March 2016. Accessed March 2, 2023.</ref> and [[New Jersey Route 173|Route 173]].<ref>[https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/pdf/00000173__-.pdf#page=2 Route 173 Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], updated May 2018. Accessed March 2, 2023.</ref> While I-78/US 22 pass through without any interchanges, the nearest exit is just outside the township in bordering [[Bloomsbury, New Jersey|Bloomsbury]] (Exit 7) and [[Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey|Union Township]] (Exit 11).<ref>[https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/gis/maps/Hunterdon.pdf Hunterdon County Highway Map], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]. Accessed March 2, 2023.</ref>

Anderson Road, located within Bethlehem Township, begins in neighboring [[Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey|Union Township]] and ends in Bethlehem Township as a dead-end, or [[cul-de-sac]]. Consequently, Anderson Road cannot be accessed internally through Bethlehem Township; it can only be accessed through Union Township.

===Public transportation===
Public transportation is limited to The LINK, a public bus service which serves Hunterdon County. Fares range from about $2.00 to $10.00. Funding for operation of the Hunterdon County LINK System is provided by Hunterdon County, [[NJ Transit]] and the [[Federal Transit Administration]].<ref>[http://www.ridethelink.com/ LINK Hunterdon County Transportation], Hunterdon County Transportation. Accessed November 15, 2019.</ref>

===Rail / Lehigh Line===
The [[Norfolk Southern Railway]]'s [[Lehigh Line (Norfolk Southern)|Lehigh Line]] (formerly the mainline of the [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]]), runs through Bethlehem Township on its way to [[Phillipsburg, New Jersey]].<ref>[https://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/pdf/hcpb/publications/HC%20SLRail%20Study%201998.pdf#page=9 ''Hunterdon County Short Line Rail Study''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120050147/https://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/pdf/hcpb/publications/HC%20SLRail%20Study%201998.pdf#page=9 |date=January 20, 2022 }}, p. 9. [[Hunterdon County, New Jersey]] Planning Board, September 1998. Accessed November 15, 2019. "The Lehigh Line is a major regional line that connects the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton (PA) metropolitan hub with the Newark (NJ) metropolitan area. The Lehigh Line enters the County at the Borough of Bloomsbury and passes through the Townships of Bethlehem, Union, Franklin, Clinton, and Raritan before exiting the County at the southern tip of Readington Township."</ref>