As Summer 2025 leads into Fall, Lakewood residents are enjoying over two dozen improved roads and walkways, which were completed by Lakewood Township crews and/or subcontractors over the summer months. These are in addition to various substantial infrastructure projects that are still in the works and have progressed significantly during this time period.
As part of its comprehensive infrastructure improvement work throughout the year, Lakewood puts a particular concentration on infrastructure improvement during the warm weather months. In addition to a more hospitable climate for outdoor work, there is a significant reduction in vehicular traffic during the weeks of summer vacation, lessening the impact of detours and road closures as much as possible.
Thus, Township officials schedule the heaviest concentration of infrastructure work during the quiet weeks of August. With great results.
“I would like to thank our Department of Public Works, engineers and other Township officials for working so effectively to progress towards our infrastructure goals in the quickest, least disruptive manner possible,” says Committeeman Meir Lichtenstein. “We remain committed to keep on progressing in our ongoing projects, while continuing to plan new projects for the coming year.”
Infrastructure Projects Completed over Summer 2025:
Freshly Paved Roads/Drainage:
East 7th Street – Lexington to Princeton
South Lake Drive – Kimball to Myrtle
Myrtle Place – South Lake to Valley
Valley Drive – Myrtle to Central
Tuxedo Terrace – Arboretum to Laurelwood
Fernwood Avenue – West County Line to Georgian
Ramsey Avenue – E 7th to High School Lot
Adelaide Place – Hope Chapel to Dead End
E 6th Street – Lexington to Mary’s
E 9th Street – Park to East End
E 7th Street – Princeton to Mary’s
Lakeview Drive – Myrtle to Gobar
Washington Ave near Spruce Street – Road Repair
Road Striping:
Cedarview Avenue & Kennedy Boulevard – Crosswalk, Stop Bar & Double Yellow
Cedarview Avenue & West County Line – Crosswalk, Stop Bar, & Double Yellow
Spruce & Vine – New Turning Lanes
Concrete Work:
14th & Lexington – ADA Ramps, Curbs, & Sidewalk
Arlington Avenue – Sidewalk & ADA Ramps
Bellinger & Funston – Curb, Sidewalk, and ADA Ramps
South Lake & Lake Park – Curb, Sidewalk, & ADA Ramps
HMA Pedestrian Walkways:
Coral Ave from Oak St to Salem St
South Street – New Hampshire to Albert
Ridgeway/Drake from Serenity to James St
Marlin From Salem to Oak
Isabella and Vilna Path
[Press Release]
Baruch Hashem!
To All those complaining that they don’t know where their taxes go here’s your answer. Not that you’re going to stop complaining.
If only all are taxes are used
this wisely.
It’s a good start – open new roads!
Vine was just opened and the township is looking into a few others. Unfortunately most roads are either county or state roads which causes things to take time.
Uh they literally did the dumbest construction ever stop wasting everyone tax dollars on a few roads that some askan with pull convinced them to fix (maybe they should take away the stupid left turning lane by cedarbridge and Martin Luther and make a functional right turning lane)
The left turning lane can’t be taken away due to the very useful and needed Left turning lane across from it. A right turning lane is in the plans.
What’s the need to be negative and kvetch. Learn yo say thank you and mean it.
Thank you guys! you guys keep improving lakewoods infrastructure!! keep it up!! We really appreciate your work!
That’s like saying a mother lists the 18 times during the year that she made dinner and wants everyone to thank her and tell her how great she is!
there is a very real public problem that there is potentially hundreds of millions of dollars unaccounted for.
we don’t have that much road in this tiny town. The amount of actual square footage of roadway is nominal in comparison to the amount of ppl paying property taxes.
the fire department is volunteer!
the police department is relatively small in comparison to our population.
we have a public school size of 5500 students! Where there should be a size of over 50,000 students.
and I don’t know where u can find less parks space or updated park space for the number of ppl here. We aren’t booming with high quality medical care/ hospitals.
the only place we might see our money working for us as a city is in our roads.
there are cities and states that pave and repave and repaint their roads every two years- so that the roads are always kept up. Cities that are way larger and less dense than our city.
everyone wants to see the books- where is all the money going?
why aren’t are roads in excellen condition? Why aren’t we having our roads routinely updated and taken care of throughout the year so ppl don’t have to beg the mayor for a stop sign that’s been rubbed out for several years, or to paint lines on roads that u can’t even identify where the lines are supposed to be…
it’s very helpful that the mayor answers questions publicly- but the better question is why is it so bad? Why is the city so neglected? Why isn’t money used to be proactive?
it’s not impressive to post a few new lines that were painted and sidewalks that were fixed and roads that were patched- when this shouldn’t be something to really need to boast about- it should be the normal maintenance during the year that citizens should need to beg for help on.
I looked up in Open Street Maps, the total combined length of all the roads in Lakewood Township. The value I got was 2350.533 miles.
Googling the cost per mile to repave a road is a bit all over the place. But let’s choose a half a million. This gives us $1.17B to resurface every road. If we repave every road once every 15 years we get $78M. Once every 25 years is still about $50M.
Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t immediately assume malice. If I see a road being redone every 25-30 years I say “That’s where my tax dollars are going”. Not everything is a conspiracy, for the most part, our local officials are doing the best they can with the resources at hand. And if you do not understand how funding is allocated, it does not mean that it is being allocated poorly.
They ripped up the perfect sidewalk in front of my house and replaced it for absolutely no reason. There was nothing wrong with it and no changes were made at all. what a waste of money. They also left a sandy mess on the street which is still here.
So, not very impressed.