As of May 2010, the township had a total of 43.48 miles (69.97 km) of roadways, of which 34.76 miles (55.94 km) were maintained by the municipality, 6.90 miles (11.10 km) by Bergen County and 1.82 miles (2.93 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Updated March 05, 2017. Composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695)'s first opera and one of the earliest English operas, Dido and Aeneas was written around 1688 and premiered shortly after at the Josias Priest Girls School in London. The opera is based on the story of Dido and Aeneas from Book IV of Virgil's Latin Epic Poem,
Dido. Daughter of king Belus of Tyre whose brother Pygmalion killed her husband Sichaeus. She escaped to North Africa with her people, and bought land from the native king Iarbus. On the land she founded Carthage where she became queen but killed herself when Iarbus threatened with war if she did not become his wife. Another version says that she fell in love with the Trojan prince Aeneas who had been shipwrecked outside the coast of Carthage after fleeing his sacked city. He left her later to go to Italy, where he became the founder of Rome, and the heart-broken Dido committed suicide.