1. Legit a disaster with all the cars so recklessly making the illegal left turns. James is backed up as is. The illegal turning cars make it 100 times worse while they block traffic waiting to turn.

   The police were there a while ago and it did help. They cant always be there. It is now worse than ever. Especially with the new traffic light there.

   What i would like to recommend is placing some sort of barrier there to prevent the illegal turns. Someone, please do something before someone gets seriously hurt there.

2. as someone who lives on the block, I actually think they should make it a gated entrance for residents of the development and emergency vehicles ONLY

   • Lets let every street be a gated street, then there will be no traffic on any street.

     • You seem to not realize that Majestic is actually a private development, and people who don’t live there are not supposed to use the road as a cut-through. So yes, a gated entrance does make sense for this street, more than other streets in Lakewood that are not private developments

       • What makes it a ‘private developement’?

       • Majestic way is a public street.
         The houses were not build by public money but by a private developer. This does not make Majestic way a private street.
         With your reason every street that was build by a developer can be gated. Lets start with Hillside I don’t want everyone who is not a West Gate resident to use that street as a Cross Street.

       • When the development was proposed to the Planning board, the developer testified that by making another road parallel to Williams allowing traffic to get from James to Prospect they will be improving the area.

         And no – its not a private road.

3. Make it into a legal left turn. Rediculous that Williams is the only through street between Prospect & James. All those cars are trying to avoid the bottleneck at Williams & James. Why is there no other cross street between these two very busy parallel streets? Was any intelligent planning considered when this side of town was developed over the last 10 years?

   • No, there was no intelligent planning done for any part of Lakewood in the last 10 years.

     • UNTILL 3 YEARS AGO THIS BLCOK DIDNT EXIST…WHY MAKE A FUSS NOW THAT THINGS CHANGED?

4. There is zero reason it’s illegal to make that left turn I do it all the time and it’s very safe! especially now that the red light stops the traffic at the railway tracks!
   I’ll be happy to meet with this victim and show him this is not the same case as his accident and he should not ruin 100s of families lives that live here and are literally trapped in there development because all other ways are totally backed up and in order to get in you need to go 25 minutes out of your way!
   So selfish wow
   We need better traffic planning now!

   • This! It’s absolutely awful to live on the block because of this. You can easily have to wait 7-10 minutes to make a left out onto prospect st, nobody lets you go, only to be hit with a 25 min bottleneck on Williams at going all the way past Buttell. All of this just to get to James/NPGS/Sunset! It’s no wonder us residents of this development use that left turn from Railroad onto James multiple times daily. Mr. Mayor, it’s always good to hear both sides of a story before sending loads of undercover cops to upset residents, as you did today. Maybe you can try to make life more possible to live here for everyone, not just one complainer who isn’t faced with this issue multiple times a day? We have plenty of people who live on the block who would be happy to speak to you and make it work for everyone

     • You should have researched the traffic in the area prior to moving to majestic. There is nobody to blame other than yourselves.

       That being said, an illegal left turn is illegal. Regardless of how much traffic you are avoiding.

       The light on williams is doing wonders for williams street. James street would be great if all the people ILLEGALLY turning left would stop blocking the flow of traffic.

       Wr need daily police enforcement at this critical intersection.

5. When I saw the ‘no left turn’ sign installed by the entrance of majestic way & james, I laughed. There was no way drivers wouldn’t take advantage of an opportunity of having a quicker way to bypass Lakewood’s horrible traffic. This town is starved of cross streets. In my opinion, any future planned cul-de-sacs should be abolished unless it ends in a cliff/body of water. Existing ones should be opened if at all physically possible. That is the only way to make traffic bearable again.

6. As far as illegal left turns is concerned, on Madison Ave. it is illegal to make left turns from the side streets into Madison, or to go straight across Madison Ave. during daytime hours, but people do it all the time and that is dangerous to people going straight on Rte. 9.

7. There was a sign saying no left turn but someone took that sign down..it’s still there not on the ground

Comments are closed.