With Lakewood's recent population growth, making your way through the downtown via Clifton Avenue or traveling along Route 9 certainly present challenges for vehicles and pedestrians alike. Improving traffic flow and pedestrian safety is the goal of a road action plan proposed by Township Engineer Todd Day. Day says, “In cooperation with John Franklin, director of Lakewood Public Works, we studied each and every intersection to come up with a road action implementation plan. We feel this plan will immediately help traffic and pedestrian circulation.” Day will be giving a formal presentation at the Township meeting this Thursday evening. One suggestion being proposed to move traffic north through downtown Clifton Avenue is to put in left hand turn lanes at First, Second, and Fourth streets. “We are proposing left hand turn lanes which will accommodate two or three cars making a left. We would also modify the existing signals at these locations in the future to add dedicated left turn arrows.” To reduce backups and accidents, and improve traffic flow, Third Street coming from the Municipal Building (going west), would be “right turn only” onto Clifton Avenue. Read full article in APP.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
New Road Plans For Downtown
With Lakewood's recent population growth, making your way through the downtown via Clifton Avenue or traveling along Route 9 certainly present challenges for vehicles and pedestrians alike. Improving traffic flow and pedestrian safety is the goal of a road action plan proposed by Township Engineer Todd Day. Day says, “In cooperation with John Franklin, director of Lakewood Public Works, we studied each and every intersection to come up with a road action implementation plan. We feel this plan will immediately help traffic and pedestrian circulation.” Day will be giving a formal presentation at the Township meeting this Thursday evening. One suggestion being proposed to move traffic north through downtown Clifton Avenue is to put in left hand turn lanes at First, Second, and Fourth streets. “We are proposing left hand turn lanes which will accommodate two or three cars making a left. We would also modify the existing signals at these locations in the future to add dedicated left turn arrows.” To reduce backups and accidents, and improve traffic flow, Third Street coming from the Municipal Building (going west), would be “right turn only” onto Clifton Avenue. Read full article in APP.
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Nice to hear that I can get faster through the downtown.there is nothing worse than sitting in traffic on clifton and looking at the slum our downtown has become. How did it come down to this?
Its not a slum, there are too many people in this town, over 100,000 there's no more room to expand. We need a relief of traffic..I say make clifton ave a one way or start ticketing those people that think double parking is all they can do..everyone is afraid of parking in the municipal lots and walking a little bit. Something has to work. If there is an emergency in the center of town there is NO WAY any Fire/Police or Ambulances can make a run unless you part clifton ave down the middle..and no one cares..its all about them..what they need. Never about the other person..lets start caring a little more make life a little easier for everyone
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