Editing Chatham Borough, New Jersey (section)

===Roads and highways===
{{As of|2010|5}}, the borough had a total of {{convert|32.16|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|26.56|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|3.33|mi}} by Morris County and {{convert|2.27|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>

[[New Jersey Route 24]] is a multi-lane state freeway crossing the borough boundaries, though the nearest interchange is just outside the borough along the boundary of [[Summit, New Jersey|Summit]] and [[Millburn, New Jersey|Millburn]]. [[New Jersey Route 124]] is the main local road providing access to Chatham along the route that connected the area before the limited access highway was built. This local route wound its way through the area since before colonial times following the course of the [[Great Minisink Trail]] and had been designated as Route 24 until it was renumbered to Route 124 when the limited access highway was built in the late 1900s. The local communities chose to retain their historic character and opted out of plans for the multi-lane, limited access highway. The nearest interchanges with the new Route 24 are in neighboring communities, to the east it is Millburn and to the west it is Hanover Township.

In 1906, the borough received coverage from ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''The Chatham Press'' for implementation of what may be the world's first recorded use of a [[speed bump]] as a traffic calming device.<ref>[[Peter Applebome|Applebome, Peter]]. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E2DF143FF93AA25757C0A9609C8B63 "Our Towns; Making A Molehill Out of a Bump"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 19, 2006. Accessed June 24, 2013. "But it turns out that, inexplicably forgotten as it seems to be, there is plenty of documentation for Chatham's place in history. Here, a century ago this week, it seems, humans created one of the hallmarks of the automotive age: the speed bump."</ref> A report from the April 24, 1906, issue of ''The Times'' described how "[t]he 'bumps' installed by the borough officials of the village of Chatham to check the speed of automobiles through the village had their first test yesterday, and proved a decided success."<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1906/04/24/archives/bumps-check-autos-crowds-cheer-as-machines-strike-them-and-jump.html "'Bumps' Check Autos.; Crowds Cheer as Machines Strike Them and Jump Into the Air."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 24, 1906. Accessed June 24, 2013.</ref>