Willingboro Township is a township in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is in the county of Burlington and is near the city of Philadelphia. The British have been a part of the Township since the 1600s. In the 1950s and 1960s, Abraham Levitt and Sons bought land in Willingboro and built a planned community based on their Levittown plan.
The Levittowners, written by sociologist Herbert J. Gans in 1967, was a well-known case study in American urban sociology. It was based on how Levittown grew. Later, Willingboro became a suburb where most of the people were African American. More recently, a growing number of Muslims are moving there.
Getting Around 2018-05-23 16:13:11 View looking north along U.S. Route 130 (Burlington Pike) just north of the Rancocas Creek on the border of Delanco Township and Willingboro Township in Burlington County, New Jersey.
Transportation
Roads and highways
As of May 2010, the township had a total of 122.11 miles (196.52 km) of roads. The township took care of 109.02 miles (175.45 km), Burlington County took care of 11.53 miles (18.56 km), and the New Jersey Department of Transportation took care of 1.56 miles (2.51 km).
The main road that goes through Willingboro is U.S. Route 130. It is right on the border between Edgewater Park Township and Delanco Township.
Public transportation
The 409, 417, and 418 bus routes run between Trenton and Philadelphia and are run by NJ Transit.
The B1 route, which runs between Beverly and Pemberton, and the B2 route both have BurLink bus service (between Beverly and Westampton Township).
Academy Bus offers service from Willingboro and the park-and-ride lot near Exit 5 of the New Jersey Turnpike in Westampton to the Port Authority Bus Terminal and other street service in Midtown Manhattan, as well as to Jersey City and the Wall Street area in Lower Manhattan.
