Editing Plainfield, New Jersey (section)

====Roads and highways====
[[File:2018-06-20 17 05 28 View east along New Jersey State Route 28 (Fifth Street) at Watchung Avenue in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|[[New Jersey Route 28|Route 28]] through Plainfield]]
{{As of|2010|5}}, the city had a total of {{convert|101.79|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|87.58|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|14.21|mi}} by Union County.<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>

Plainfield is one of the few large suburban cities in central New Jersey to have no federal highway within it. The only major thoroughfare through Plainfield is [[New Jersey Route 28|Route 28]], connecting [[Somerville, New Jersey|Somerville]] with [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabeth]] and [[New Jersey Route 27]]. U.S. Route 22, a mecca for highway shopping and dining, is accessible from Plainfield through [[North Plainfield, New Jersey|North Plainfield]], [[Dunellen, New Jersey|Dunellen]] and [[Fanwood, New Jersey|Fanwood]]. In the early 1960s, Interstate highways were completed near, but not through Plainfield. [[Interstate 287]] is accessible through [[South Plainfield, New Jersey|South Plainfield]] and [[Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway]], while [[Interstate 78 in New Jersey|Interstate 78]] is accessible through [[Watchung, New Jersey|Watchung]] / [[Warren Township, New Jersey|Warren Township]] and neighboring communities. The busiest connecting thoroughfares are Park Avenue (north-south), traversing from U.S. 22 to and into South Plainfield and [[Edison, New Jersey|Edison]]; Front Street (east-west), connecting Scotch Plains with Dunellen; South Avenue and 7th Street, both of which parallel Front Street, connecting Scotch Plains/Fanwood with Piscataway, South Plainfield and the [[Middlesex County, New Jersey|Middlesex County]] border.