A $12 million transportation project is set to improve safety and mobility along Cedar Bridge Avenue (County Route 528) in Lakewood Township, spanning from South Clifton Avenue to Airport Road.
The county-led project, funded by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, targets one of Ocean County’s busiest and most critical roadways. Cedar Bridge Avenue serves major commercial areas, community facilities, and key regional travel connections, and has long been the focus of serious safety concerns.
According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation’s 2023 network screening list, the corridor ranked highest in Ocean County for pedestrian and bicycle safety concerns and second overall for corridor safety concerns.
“This project addresses longstanding safety issues along a vital corridor for our residents and visitors,” said Ocean County Board of Commissioners Director Frank Sadeghi, co-liaison to the Ocean County Engineering Department. “These improvements will help reduce crashes and create safer options for people walking and biking throughout Lakewood Township.”
Planned improvements include upgraded traffic signals at six intersections and the construction of a shared-use path to better accommodate pedestrians and cyclists. Additional enhancements will include widened shoulders, high-visibility crosswalks, Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant curb ramps, and improved roadway lighting.
“The project builds on safety improvements completed along other portions of Cedar Bridge Avenue in 2015 and 2017 and will allow the county to fully implement recommendations from a 2014 road safety audit,” said Ocean County Commissioner Ray Gormley, also a co-liaison to the Ocean County Engineering Department. “Upgrading Cedar Bridge Avenue will benefit everyone who lives, works, and travels through Ocean County.”
Preliminary design work is expected to begin in summer 2026. Ocean County will oversee the project in cooperation with the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and Lakewood Township officials.
The Ocean County Board of Commissioners said the project reflects the county’s continued commitment to improving roadway safety while planning for future growth, emphasizing that investments in proven safety improvements and modern infrastructure are essential to protecting residents, supporting local communities, and ensuring the county’s transportation network meets the needs of all users.
Its about time!
Its about time
So Lakewood is now in North Jersey?
cedarbridge and New Hampshire should be the first intersection addressed
Why are the improvements based on a 12 year old survey?! I get government is slow but c’mon guys, another 2 years to complete this, by that time the issue will still be here, but bigger. The building is not slowing down.
This is the exact problem that happened last time they made “improvements”. They used old studies from when industrial park wasn’t a major workplace. They took away the right turn onto MLK, instead making a left turn into nowhere. They added cement in the middle of the road instead of another lane for “pedestrians” who can never be found etc.
Totally agreed. I complained to the mayor on exactly why they would take away the right turning lane onto mlk and put a left into a useless parking area for a few small businesses, something you never see elsewhere. He never answered the questions and it’s becoming more and more obvious how things run. Another puppet
Why did “in the hock” say it twice?
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what a bunch of rubbish! they just put us through 2 years of construction there, and now they are starting again? lets see the plans! last time they stole our turning lane to go up MLK and added a turning lane going nowhere. Let local contractors bid on this, I’m sure it can be done for half the price and twice the speed! unfortunately the road projects have been nightmares for anyone living near or traveling through, and the small benefit, is simply not worth it
show the tzibur the plans before moving on with it, we travel the roads we know what needs to be done, enough of the poor planning
I hope the path will be sidewalk or at least paved over. This project is long overdue, it’s crazy to be flying down cedarbridge & Clover and see someone walking in the shoulder, and I bet it’s quite nerve racking for the pedestrian too. Hope it’s done soon!
not sure why someone would risk their life to walk there when there’s not even a shoulder, i would never walk there, we don’t need a project to help a few reckless people, its the vehicle traffic that’s the issue facing thousands that drive there everyday
Reckless people? Where do you want them to walk? Get around with hitching maybe or the non existent transit? If there was a place to walk, like sidewalks, neighborhood kids could actually travel it by foot or bike. And then there wouldn’t just be the few reckless people who are desperate enough to do that.
did you never walk there? did i? no! just like you don’t walk on the gsp you don’t walk on any highway without a shoulder or side walk, and btw you can walk up James and through the world financial center, there’s no excuse for anyone walking on cedar bridge where cars drive 50 mph and there’s no shoulder!
First of all there’s the grass you can walk on. Don’t call those who walk there reckless. Suppose you live @ Clover and tyou have to get to Mike’s Chicken you expect me to walk on the 9 and where does James come in?
Not everyone has a car or the extra time or energy to walk more round about way.
If people are walking on the street it means they don’t have a better option.
that’s one of the biggest traffic areas in the state, instead of helping they’re adding a bike lane, please make it make sense.
Not in place of a lane like they do in my shtetl of Brooklyn, but with seichel (I hope) by combining it with the soon-to-be sidewalks they keep promising.
Almost no sane bike laanes anywhere in brooklyn.
Sometimes you just feel like slamming your head into the wall as you watch massive new office buildings going up every few months, each adding thousands of cars to the daily Cedar Bridge traffic, and then watch local and county officials discuss 2014 surveys, and hadicap compliant curbs.
The traffic gets worse by the day, Clover is an absolute mess, as is the MLK intersection, and these fools sit by and watch as what should be a 5 minute commute turns into a 45 minute affair.
well said! and then comes local elections, and the vaad wake up from their graves telling us the awesome job out elected officials have been doing, pure rubbish!
Absolutely correct. I’ve also mentioned this to the mayor regarding the insane traffic buildup on Pine street every morning and afternoon. These buildings which have gone up are the cause of all this. YET WE NEED TO SUFFER WITH ONLY MORE BUILDINGS COMING.