The following is an ‘Ask The Mayor’ question submitted to TLS, and the Mayor’s response. Email your questions for the Mayor to [email protected].

Question:

Hi,

I believe that the traffic light on cross street at the James/Cross intersection does not stay green long enough and is the cause of much traffic on cross street. My observation is in the afternoon hours. I’d like to request that this be investigated.

Response from Mayor Coles:

Good morning. I will ask engineering to look into it right away

Ray

Question:

Hi Mr Mayor. I’m loving the new Vine St extension and I’m sure as more people find out about it, it will get loads of usage. Great job!

Quick question when I drove by this morning I saw a stop sign there and was wondering if the township put it up or one of the neighbors illegally.

Thanks again for all your hard work and especially for making yourself available for common folk like me 🙂

Keep it up!

Response from Mayor Coles:

Good morning. They are official township stop signs

Thanks for reaching out

Ray

Question:

Dear Mayor,

Thank you for your time and attention to all of the road concerns in the city.

There is a dangerous move that many cars are making that I’m hoping you can find a solution for.

Two buildings were recently constructed right after airport road on Cedarbridge. The speed limit there is 50 miles an hour and most people are driving fast between 50-60.

The way the road is designed there’s no way to easily access the buildings when coming from lakewood.
There is no turning lane for cars to stop and turn.
Instead there is a double yellow line. Cars are supposed to pass the building and turn around to enter the lot.

My concern is that drivers who want to enter that parking lot often stop completely on Cedarbridge to cross the double lines instead of entering the way that the road was constructed.

It feels like they are coming to a complete stop in middle of a highway ( to make an illegal turn).

Is it possible to install dillineator barriers on the double yellow line?

I’m concerned that if something isn’t done to enforce drivers to use the road the way it was designed it could result in a very serious accident.

What can be done?

A Concerned Driver

Response from Mayor Coles:

Thanks for writing. I will ask traffic and safety to check it out and forward their recommendations to the county engineer

Ray

Question:

To the honorable Mayor,

I am so blown away at how you run our township, especially listening to all the requests of the residents in regards to the traffic patterns in our town – after all it’s us who are the ones driving on the same roads and know best what would ease the traffic.

Hope Road I am sure you are aware turned into a mini Route 9 nightmare in the past two years bec of the lights that the township keeps putting up. I’m not sure if the township realizes but putting up traffic lights increases traffic not decreases.

But now that they are up we need the township to REMOVE the green turning arrow from all the lights so we don’t delay the cars another minute from the other direction. (There is never more than 1 car waiting to turn left by North Lake or South Lake so why are we having an arrow just for one car?)

We also need you to DECREASE the time of the green lights by:

South Lake
North Lake
14th st
Miller Rd

Every extra second that there is a green light for those roads it causes cars on Hope to sit in hours of unnecessary traffic every single day! What a pity!

I drive down Hope road a minimum of 25 times a day and I never see more than 3 cars max waiting to turn on to Hope by 14th, South Lake, and North Lake!
So why are we having an 8 second greenlight for them?
It’s so so frustrating for us drivers to watch this 🙁

Please tell us this will be taken care of ASAP so we don’t have another Rt 9 nightmare on Hope Road.

Thanks again for all the wonderful work you do for Lakewood! It does not go unnoticed!

Response from Mayor Coles:

Thank you for the kind word. I must let you know that all 5 members of the committee put in many hours each day making sure things ruin as smoothly as possible. I sometimes forget to acknowledge their actions.

I will ask engineering to speak to the county engineer about this again

Some good news. The county is in the initial stages of implementing a program that will synch the lights and adjust timing as needed. It is part of a federal grant designed to improve traffic flow

Ray

Question:

Good Morning,

Thank you for all you do every day for our town!

This morning I was very disappointed to see a lane on Central Ave almost by Rt 9 closed for Verizon to replace telephone poles. This was between 9:30-10 AM and definitely not an emergency! Why did everyone have to lose even more precious minutes on the first day of the day camp/summer season which is usually hectic and full of traffic??

What can be done to ensure that any non emergency roadblocks are done on off hours (not between 9-10:30 AM and 2-5 PM)? It could’ve been done at 7 AM or 6 PM and wouldn’t have impacted nearly half the amount of drivers.

Have a wonderful day and hope you stay cool!

Response from Mayor Coles:

Thanks for alerting me to this. I have forwarded it to traffic & safety to find out why the normal starting times for construction were not followed

Ray

Question:

Honorable Mayor Coles

Will it be possible to put a stop sign it’s Spruce and Washington. I know the spruce people will be annoyed but it will make it a lot easier for the Washington people to make turns.

Thank you

Marvin

Response from Mayor Coles:

I will ask Traffic & Safety to give us a recommendation for it

thanks

Ray

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