Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Speed limit changes would be possible for streets without sidewalks
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Wednesday, May 15
A proposal before state legislators would allow neighborhood associations to seek out a lowering of speed limits from 20 to 15 mph if the road has no sidewalks. Instead of going through traffic studies and federal road standards, the bill would simply allow the neighborhood association ask the local government to drop the speed limit as reason enough to have officials vote on speed limit changes. In an announcement this week, the bill's sponsors explained the legislation and its emphasis on neighborhood safety: Public safety legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Scott Rudder to protect New Jersey children from rushed and distracted motorists racing through residential communities was released today by the Assembly Transportation, Public …
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Speed limit change has taken effect for a stretch of roadway
From now on, drivers headed down River Road to and from Rumson are going to have to slow down between Fair Haven's border at Buena Vista Avenue and Third Street in Rumson. After some borough and county rallying at the hands of Rumson resident Ronald Reiswig and studies on the matter, Monmouth County officials have deemed it in the best interest of the public to lower the limit, now posted at 40 miles per hour, to 35 on what is county Route 10. The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders sanctioned that and other county road speed limit changes via resolution earlier in the month. It's a change that Rumson officials support and say they have for some time now. That it happened to come after Reiswig launched his own campaign against …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Fair Haven police issued 31 summonses in the past few days
School has started. Children are out and about. So are careless drivers. The summonses issued in Fair Haven lately tell what is known as a familiar tale around town. To send a strong message about protecting and serving the children and other pedestrians, especially during school season, Fair Haven police on a vigilant mission to rid the roads of inattentive and speeding drivers. In an attempt to drive the message home and down the town’s main thoroughfare — River Road — police in the past few days alone have issued 31 summonses involving “violations of pedestrian crosswalks and cell phone uses” as well as speeding, Councilman Rowland Wilhelm, police liaison, reported. “Beware folks,” Wilhelm said at Monday’s Borough Council meeting. “Kids…
Monday, August 6, 2012
West River Road resident Ronald Reiswig has made it his mission to get drivers to slow down
Rumson resident Ron Reiswig is on a mission to make drivers slow down in his neighborhood, which happens to be on a main thoroughfare. The West River Road resident is relatively new to the area. He loves it. He loves everything about it — except the speeding vehicles that he says barrel down West River Road, in front of his house, and cause him fear and angst over the safety of his and other people’s families. Reiswig says he has nothing but respect for Rumson police and their vigilant patrols, but he wonders if something can be done to quell the infractions he says he’s witnessed when police do not happen to be within that one two- to three-block radius and there are speeders. Saying he understands full well that there cannot be patrols …
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Lower speed limit signs are on the street
It’s a sign of heightened safety and things slowing down on Kemp Avenue in Fair Haven. In case you have not noticed, since the speed limit was officially sanctioned for lowering from 25 to 20 miles per hour in February on what is known as the student thoroughfare to and from Sickles School, the signs marking the change have been installed. They dot Kemp in the center and on the sides of the road. Parents rallied for lowering the speed as a safety precaution and police backed them, saying back in February that the average speed on the street is about 28 miles per hour. With the 25-mile-per-hour limit, it made it tougher for police to ticket people who were traveling three to four miles an hour over that limit. With the limit lowered to 20, …
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11:08 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013
I agree with Mr. Reiswig. Anyone who has lives on one of the main arteries -- River, Fair Haven, Hance, etc. knows that speeding is epidemic. I also agree with the writer who says no amount of tax-payer funded signage will make a difference. Despite all of the massive taxes paid for police, they can't seem to make a difference -- all they can recommend is more money for more patrols. Even when we… more ›