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,
Aeneas was the son of  Anchises and Aphrodite. It is believed by some that Zeus aroused the desire in Aphrodite to have a relation with the mortal man. Aphrodite appeared as a beautiful maiden and told that she was a mortal woman, daughter of an Otreus. She told Anchises because she grew in a house of Trojan nurse. When Anchises made love to Aphrodite, she revealed her identity and Anchises panicked that he might be destroyed because he slept with a goddess.