Editing Fair Lawn, New Jersey (section)

===Roads===
Fair Lawn is interwoven by a robust network of roads. {{As of|2010|5}}, the borough had a total of {{convert|99.60|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|84.00|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|11.13|mi}} by Bergen County and {{convert|4.47|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Bergen.pdf Bergen County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed November 5, 2013.</ref>

Fair Lawn is traversed by two state highways, [[New Jersey Route 4]], which connects Fair Lawn to [[New York City]] via the [[George Washington Bridge]], and [[New Jersey Route 208]], which links Fair Lawn to the New York City bypass highway [[Interstate 287]].

Fair Lawn has several main roads crossing through it forming a rough 3x3 grid. Running north–south are Saddle River Road, Plaza Road, and River Road ([[County Route 507 (New Jersey)|County Route 507]])<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/00000507__-.pdf County Route 507 Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], October 2006. Accessed November 5, 2013.</ref> while Broadway, Morlot Avenue, and Fair Lawn Avenue run east–west, and [[New Jersey Route 208|Route 208]] runs northwest–southeast. Running east–west between and parallel to Morlot and Fair Lawn Avenues is Berdan Avenue, a residential thoroughfare which is bisected by Route 208 into two discontinuous segments, the western one of which contains Fair Lawn High School.

Broadway becomes [[New Jersey Route 4|Route 4]] heading into [[Paramus, New Jersey|Paramus]] and is less than {{convert|10|mi}} from the George Washington Bridge.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/00000004__-.pdf Route 4 Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], March 2010. Accessed November 5, 2013.</ref>

Fair Lawn Avenue is considered the borough's main street, containing its borough hall, police station, and public library. The road goes west over the [[Passaic River]] into Paterson, and on the east, Fair Lawn Avenue ends at Saddle River Road, which through Dunkerhook Park becomes Dunkerhook Road, and becomes Century Road once in Paramus, at Paramus Road. The intersection of Fair Lawn Avenue and Plaza Road form what could be considered a "town center", with several shopping plazas and the Radburn train station all within walking distance. In October 2015, a community meeting was held to discuss a vision for this corridor.<ref>Putrino, Tracey. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160509183641/http://www.northjersey.com/community-news/residents-invited-to-offer-input-on-fair-lawn-avenue-plan-1.1427179 "Residents invited to offer input on Fair Lawn Avenue plan"], ''Community News (Fair Lawn edition)'', October 7, 2015, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of May 9, 2016. Accessed September 16, 2017.</ref> Other commercial areas include Broadway and River Road.

Route 208 has its southern terminus in Fair Lawn and bisects the borough from the northwest to the southeast, where it eventually merges with Broadway to become Route 4 just west of Fair Lawn's border with Paramus. Taken the other direction, Route 208 flows northwest to [[Interstate 287]] in [[Oakland, New Jersey|Oakland]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/00000208__-.pdf Route 208 Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], March 2010. Accessed November 5, 2013.</ref> Numerous commercial establishments and office buildings line Route 208 along the northwestern half of this [[limited access highway]]'s trajectory through Fair Lawn.

South of Route 4, Saddle River Road goes through the eastern side of Fair Lawn and into [[Saddle Brook, New Jersey|Saddle Brook]], where it provides a link to both the [[Garden State Parkway]] and [[Interstate 80 in New Jersey|Interstate 80]]. North of Route 4, Saddle River Road provides a link to [[Glen Rock, New Jersey|Glen Rock]].

====Grid-based address system====

Fair Lawn uses a street address numbering system in which most Fair Lawn addresses are given hyphenated numbers. The address of the borough's public library, for example, is 10-01 Fair Lawn Ave. Less than 1% of addresses in New Jersey use this kind of numbering system and Fair Lawn's nearly 10,000 hyphenated addresses account for nearly half of them. This numbering system is also used in [[Queens]], New York City. Exceptions to this numbering system generally exist on the Glen Rock, [[Hawthorne, New Jersey|Hawthorne]], and [[Saddle Brook, New Jersey|Saddle Brook]] sides of Fair Lawn and within the Radburn development. The system, dating at least as far back as the 1930s, was designed to allow emergency personnel to quickly locate addresses.<ref name=Record2015/>

The first numbers (before the dash) correspond to block-distances from Broadway (on streets that run North-South) and to the numbered streets in the borough (example: 2nd Street, 17th Street, etc.) on the streets that run East-West; with the highest numbers being in the low 40s, and the lowest numbers being 0–30, etc. Addresses south of Broadway / Route 4 start with a zero and a hyphen, which can cause confusion with those unfamiliar with the grid system. Most GPS systems and online address entry forms do not accept the dash, though addresses entered without the dash are typically handled properly.<ref name=Record2015>Diduch, Mary. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160810175507/http://www.northjersey.com/news/fair-lawn-s-number-maze-1.1262578?page=all "Fair Lawn's number maze: Hyphenated addresses can be confusing"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', February 1, 2015, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of August 10, 2016. Accessed September 16, 2017. "Few municipalities use the system; Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City, is one that does. Of the 3.9 million addresses in the state, 21,970 have hyphenated addresses. Nearly half — about 10,000 — are in Fair Lawn, with Newark trailing with about 6,000, according to the Postal Service.&nbsp;... Homes and buildings south of Broadway — Route 4 — have a zero before the hyphen, followed by the building number. Structures north of Broadway are given a number before the hyphen that corresponds to the street."</ref>