Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles Responds to Your ‘Ask The Mayor’ Questions: Marc Dr, Village Park, Narrow Street Parking

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 Mayor

Please make Marc and Pine and Washington and Pine intersections each three-way stop signs, please.

It’s not logical that people coming out of both Washington and MARC drives trying to make a left turn have to pull out and pray.

Thank you

Concerned pine street area resident.

Response from Mayor Coles:

Thanks for your suggestion. I will run it by traffic and safety.

Ray

Question:

Hi Mayor,

Thanks for this opportunity to reach out to you and thanks for looking into each problem and trying your hardest to come up with a solution to each one.

In our neighborhood, Village Park (Cabinfield Circle) it is very dark at night (as well as other streets in Lakewood). Is it possible to put in more lights or change the existing ones to stronger ones?

Nowadays it is not as safe as it was back in the day and having more light keeps the neighborhoods safer. A suggestion would be for those community service members such as police, chaveirim…. while they are driving on duty to take note of the streets that are dark and send it to the correct party that can take care of it.

Thanks again for your time and concern for the safety of Lakewood.

All the best

Response from Mayor Coles:

Good morning. I understand. We are always looking to add lights in various areas around town. I’ll ask our engineer to take a look and see what is required.

Thanks

Ray

Question:

Hi Mayor,

There are streets around town that are very narrow and with parking on both sides and two way traffic, it makes it very difficult for cars to get through especially when there is nowhere to move over for another car or worse yet a bus!

Certain streets should not allow parking on both sides of the street.

For example… Linden off Ocean Ave, N. Oakland, and many others.

While on the topic of traffic… There shouldn’t be parking allowed on Clover getting closer to Cedarbridge ave and the opposite way getting closer to Holly St and the entire next block of Clover between Holly and Ocean Ave. This would alleviate the congestion and allow the traffic to flow more freely so those that are turning right can pass.

Obviously the matter of traffic around town will always be an issue but the most that could be done to alleviate the traffic is a huge help.
Thanks a lot.

Response from Mayor Coles:

Thanks for writing. I’ll ask engineering to inspect each of these areas and get back to us with recommendations.

Thanks

Ray

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Or in case of linden and North Oakland instead of getting rid of parking on both sides which will be a big problem for residents, they should make it a one way street with north Oakland going one way and Linden the other way!!
    There’s barely room for 2 cars going thru, forget about busses and garbage trucks!

  2. Would you look into Columbus N Avenue becoming a one-side parking as well? Its too narrow for two-side parking as well as buses and cars turning in and out…ty!

  3. Please, Mayor, no 4 way stops on Pine!! 4 way stops would cause Pine to no longer be a useful through street, as every single car would have to stop (2x!). It would be amazing to have coordinating traffic lights (that favor Vine) at those intersections instead, as well as one at Vine, so that people could make lefts onto Pine from those streets.

  4. the corner of rt 88 and clover is a shanda, those corners are new, and its amazing how they didn’t have the foresight to widen those corners, so if someone stop to turn , people can go around instead of the entire rt 88 or clover backing up

  5. There should be no parking on cedar st. There’s no room to get down the block and there’s also a shul. When there are minyanim they park on the street which makes it worse

  6. The problem with doing 4 way stops on Pine is that people will pull into the intersection when it’s their “turn” even if there is no room for them to cross the intersection fully. I think there needs to be heavy education (enforcement i.e. tickets) about not blocking the box before such an idea can be viable. They can start with the intersection of Pine and Martin Luther. There have been times when Martin Luther gets a green light and no cars can go because cars on Pine are blocking the box… And even without the 4 way stop sign there have been many times when cars pull out of Washington or Marc to make a left even though Pine heading to Rt 9 is backed up, which means they just end up blocking the cars on Pine who are trying to head towards New Hampshire. 4 way stop signs only work if people can think about the impact of their driving maneuvers on other drivers…
    Related to the Pine woes, I don’t know why, when they built the new part of Vine they didn’t put in a curve so that the Pine end would line up with Washington, allowing for a normal traffic light….

  7. Funston Ave also needs to be one side parking. For now it mostly is since SCHI put out cones from the new end of Coles was until Oak, but the other part of Funston is really bad, and there aren’t even driveways for people to edge over into to let other cars go…

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