Plainfield offers easy access to Route 22, and is just under 15 minutes from Interstate Routes 78 and 287, and not more than 30 minutes from Interstate Route 80 and the state's two major North-South toll roads, the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike. Plainfield's trucking and forwarding companies provide a variety of shipping options for every conceivable product. For materials needing to be moved by rail, Conrail offers local access to major rail links across the country. New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line, which has two stations in Plainfield, provides regular passenger rail service to Newark and New York City. Also, commuters reach Amtrack's Northeast Corridor trains at Metropark Station in under one half hour.
Bus lines carry commuters and sightseers to New York City in just over one hour.
Plus a system of county and city roads put Plainfield within half an hour's driving time of more than 2,000,000 people.