Editing Morris Township, New Jersey (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:2021-07-06 09 52 43 View south along Interstate 287 from the overpass for Morris County Route 650 (Hanover Avenue) in Morris Township, Morris County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|[[Interstate 287]] southbound in Morris Township]]
[[File:Convent Sta house jeh.jpg|thumb|[[Convent Station (NJ Transit)|Convent Station]]]]

===Roads and highways===
{{As of|2010|5}}, the township had a total of {{convert|126.51|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|106.11|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|13.96|mi}} by Morris County and {{convert|6.44|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 the community including [[New Jersey Route 124|Route 124]], [[New Jersey Route 24|Route 24]], [[County Route 510 (New Jersey)|CR 510]], [[U.S. Route 202]], and [[Interstate 287]].

===Public transportation===
[[Convent Station (NJ Transit)|Convent Station]] is a [[NJ Transit]] rail station located on the grounds of the College of Saint Elizabeth.<ref>[https://www.njtransit.com/station/convent-station Convent Station], [[NJ Transit]]. Accessed September 4, 2014.</ref> Service is available on the [[Morristown Line]] to [[Newark Broad Street Station]], [[Secaucus Junction]], [[Pennsylvania Station (New York)|Penn Station New York]] and [[Hoboken Terminal]].<ref>[https://content.njtransit.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/rail/2023/04/230004/mne.pdf Morris and Essex Line schedule], [[NJ Transit]], updated April 23, 2023. Accessed April 26, 2023.</ref>

NJ Transit offers local bus service on the [[871 (New Jersey bus)|871]], [[872 (New Jersey bus)|872]], [[873 (New Jersey bus)|873]], [[875 (New Jersey bus)|875]], [[878 (New Jersey bus)|878]] and [[880 (New Jersey bus)|880]] routes,<ref>[https://www.morriscountynj.gov/Departments/Engineering-Transportation/Riding-the-Bus Riding the Bus], [[Morris County, New Jersey]]. Accessed April 26, 2023.</ref><ref>[http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/bus/Morris_County_Map.pdf Morris County System Map], [[NJ Transit]]. Accessed August 8, 2015.</ref> replacing service that had been offered on the [[MCM1 (New Jersey bus)|MCM1]], [[MCM2 (New Jersey bus)|MCM2]], [[MCM3 (New Jersey bus)|MCM3]], [[MCM4 (New Jersey bus)|MCM4]], [[MCM8 (New Jersey bus)|MCM8]] and [[MCM10 (New Jersey bus)|MCM10]] routes until 2010, when subsidies to the local provider 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 8, 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.njtransit.com/tm/tm_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=PressReleaseTo&PRESS_RELEASE_ID=2629 NJ Transit Restructures Morris County Bus Service; Four current 'MCM' routes will be expanded to six new bus routes], [[NJ Transit]], September 13, 2010. Accessed August 8, 2015.</ref>

The [[Morris County Traction Company]] began trolley service in downtown [[Dover, New Jersey|Dover]] in July 1904, and expanded over the years until the system was completed in 1914 all the way to [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], via [[Morristown, New Jersey|Morristown]] and [[Summit, New Jersey|Summit]], including service in Morris Township. The trolleys were replaced with buses in 1928.