Editing Essex County, New Jersey (section)

===Roads and highways===

[[File:2018-07-17 07 28 23 View south along New Jersey State Route 444 (Garden State Parkway) between Exit 153 and Exit 151, entering Bloomfield Township, Essex County from Clifton, Passaic County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Garden State Parkway]] South entering Essex County]]
{{As of|2010}}, the county had a total of {{convert|1667.98|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|1375.06|mi}} are maintained by the local municipality, {{convert|213.12|mi}} by Essex County and {{convert|60.68|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]] and {{convert|19.12|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Turnpike Authority]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Essex.pdf Essex County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed July 18, 2014.</ref>

Essex County is traversed by a number of highways. Three primary interstates and one auxiliary cross the county. This includes two long distance main interstates, one north–south [[Interstate 95 in New Jersey|Interstate 95]] (concurrent with the [[New Jersey Turnpike]] toll road) and one east–west [[Interstate 80 in New Jersey|Interstate 80]]. East-West [[Interstate 78 in New Jersey|Interstate 78]] also crosses the county. All of these only have interchanges in one municipality in the county, [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] for I-95 and I-78 and [[Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey|Fairfield]] for I-80. [[Interstate 280 (New Jersey)|Interstate 280]] passes through the county in a northeast–southwest direction and has exits in [[Roseland, New Jersey|Roseland]], [[Livingston, New Jersey|Livingston]], [[West Orange, New Jersey|West Orange]], [[Orange, New Jersey|Orange]], [[East Orange, New Jersey|East Orange]] and Newark, making it one of the most important roads for intracounty travel.

Essex County also has four U.S. Routes that cross it. [[U.S. Route 1/9|Route 1/9]] are [[Concurrency (road)|concurrent]] and a freeway throughout their length in the county. They pass through Newark from [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabeth]] in [[Union County, New Jersey|Union County]] to [[Kearny, New Jersey|Kearny]] in [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County]]. It crosses over the [[Passaic River]] on the [[Pulaski Skyway]], which bans trucks, so just before it leaves the county in the north [[U.S. Route 1/9 Truck|Truck 1/9]] splits for the traffic that is not allowed on the bridge. [[U.S. Route 1/9 Truck|Truck 1/9]] is also a freeway its entire length in the county. [[U.S. Route 22 in New Jersey|U.S. Route 22]] eastern terminus is in Newark the only municipality it crosses in the county. It is a freeway along it route in Essex County. It connects Newark with points to the east. The last U.S. Route in the county is [[U.S. Route 46]], which passes through [[Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey|Fairfield]], where it is a major commercial road that parallels [[Interstate 80 in New Jersey|Interstate 80]].

The most important state road in the county is the [[Garden State Parkway]] which passes north–south through the county, connecting [[Union Township, Union County, New Jersey|Union Township]] in the south in [[Union County, New Jersey|Union County]] to [[Clifton, New Jersey|Clifton]] in the north in [[Passaic County, New Jersey|Passaic County]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/00000444__-.pdf#page=52 Garden State Parkway Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], January 1997. Accessed August 25, 2014.</ref> It is a toll road, a freeway, and bans trucks of more than 7,000 pounds during its entire length in the county. It has one interchange in [[Irvington, New Jersey|Irvington]], one in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], two in [[East Orange, New Jersey|East Orange]], and four in [[Bloomfield, New Jersey|Bloomfield]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/turnpike/our-roadways.html Travel Resources: Interchanges, Service Areas & Commuter Lots], [[New Jersey Turnpike Authority]]. Accessed August 25, 2014.</ref> Outside the county, it is the longest road of any kind in the state.

[[New Jersey Route 7]] is a major arterial road in [[Nutley, New Jersey|Nutley]] and [[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]]. It has two discontinuous sections. The southern section starts at an overpass for [[New Jersey Route 21|Route 21]] and passes over the [[Belleville Turnpike Bridge]] into border between [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson]] and [[Bergen County, New Jersey|Bergen]] counties. The northern section starts at the [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]]/[[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]] border passes through [[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]] and [[Nutley, New Jersey|Nutley]] until in crosses into [[Clifton, New Jersey|Clifton]].

Other highways in the county include:
* [[New Jersey Route 10|Route 10]]
* [[New Jersey Route 21|Route 21]]
* [[New Jersey Route 23|Route 23]]
* [[New Jersey Route 24|Route 24]] (Only in [[Millburn, New Jersey|Millburn]])
* [[New Jersey Route 27|Route 27]] (only in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]])
* [[New Jersey Route 124|Route 124]]
* [[New Jersey Route 159|Route 159]] (Only in [[Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey|Fairfield]])
* [[Eisenhower Parkway]]