Editing Berkeley Heights, New Jersey (section)

===Transportation===

====Roads and highways====
[[File:2021-06-30 15 57 31 View west along Interstate 78 (Phillipsburg-Newark Expressway) from the overpass for Union County Route 640 (McMane Avenue) in Berkeley Heights Township, Union County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|[[Interstate 78]] in Berkeley Heights]]
{{As of|2010|5}}, the township had a total of {{convert|65.73|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|50.46|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|12.11|mi}} by Union County and {{convert|3.16|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Union.pdf Union County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed July 18, 2014.</ref>

The most significant highway serving Berkeley Heights is [[Interstate 78 in New Jersey|Interstate 78]], which runs from [[New York City]] to [[Pennsylvania]]. Other major roads in Berkeley Heights include Springfield Avenue, Mountain Avenue, Snyder Avenue, Plainfield Avenue, and Park Avenue. Springfield Avenue and Mountain Avenue run east–west, Snyder Avenue and Plainfield Avenue run north–south, while Park Avenue runs northeast–southwest. Each of these roads is heavily residential (except parts of Springfield Avenue) with only one travel lane in each direction.

====Public transportation====
[[File:Berkeley Heights NJ train tracks eastbound to New York.jpg|thumb|right|Commuter train tracks headed eastbound to New York City]]
[[File:Berkeley Heights NJ train station exterior.jpg|thumb|right|Train station]]
[[NJ Transit]] provide service at the [[Berkeley Heights station]]<ref>[http://www.njtransit.com/rg/rg_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TrainStationLookupFrom&selStation=17 Berkeley Heights station], [[NJ Transit]]. Accessed December 1, 2014.</ref> serving [[Hoboken Terminal]], [[Newark Broad Street Station]], and [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]] as part of the [[Gladstone Branch]]. Berkeley Heights is also in close proximity of the [[Summit station (NJ Transit)|Summit station]], which provides frequent commuter rail service to [[New York City]].

NJ Transit offers local bus service on the [[986 (New Jersey bus)|986]] route.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090522212305/http://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=BusRoutesUnionCountyTo Union County Bus/Rail Connections], [[NJ Transit]], backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of May 22, 2009. Accessed July 3, 2011.</ref> [[Lakeland Bus Lines]] also provides commuter bus service to the [[Port Authority Bus Terminal]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]] and a connection to [[Gladstone, New Jersey|Gladstone]].

Freight rail transportation had been provided by [[Norfolk Southern]] via off-peak use of New Jersey Transit's Gladstone Branch line until a final run on November 7, 2008, after 126 years of service. The Berkeley Heights plant of Reheis Chemical located on Snyder Avenue was the last freight customer on the Gladstone Branch, receiving shipments of hydrochloric acid.<ref>Reilly, Frank T. [http://newjerseyhills.com/echoes-sentinel/news/last-freight-leaves-stirling-station/article_4d1fa97d-9e76-5493-b51f-bb4ab187fd7c.html "Last freight leaves Stirling station "], ''Eoes-Sentinel'', November 14, 2008. Accessed August 26, 2013. "One-hundred twenty-six years of freight service on the NJ Transit Gladstone Branch came to an end on Friday morning, Nov. 7, when Norfolk Southern Railway locomotive 3010 hauled six tank cars from the last remaining freight customer on that branch, ending railroad freight service in southern Morris and northwestern Union counties.... But the sole customer, Reheis Chemical in Berkeley Heights, needed large tank cars of hydrochloric acid, a very profitable commodity for the railroad."</ref>

[[Newark Liberty International Airport]] is approximately {{convert|18|mi|km}} east of Berkeley Heights.