Toms River Township residents, businesses and property owners along the Route 9 corridor in Toms River are invited to an open house next Tuesday to learn about and comment on proposals to improve congestion and reduce crashes along the corridor.
The North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) is holding the meeting as part of its 12-month planning effort to identify spot improvements, corridor-level treatments and access management regulations for Route 9. The study aims to establish a long-term vision for the corridor; develop a package of low-cost, high-impact safety and operational solutions that can quickly be implemented; and develop a formal Access Management Plan to aid municipalities in regulating future development along the corridor.
The meeting is being held in the Ocean County Library’s Mancini Room, 101 Washington Street, in Toms River. There will be two sessions, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and the event will feature three presentations – at 2 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. – offering an overview of the Route 9 Corridor Study recommendations.
The open house-style meeting will feature information stations with maps detailing the proposed improvements, information about the Access Management Plan and an opportunity for the public to provide feedback on the recommendations.
A similar meeting is being scheduled for Lakewood to review recommendations for the portion of the Route 9 corridor in that community.
The input gathered from these meetings will be included in a report, which is expected to be issued later this year.
The Route 9 Corridor Study’s Working Group includes municipal officials from Lakewood and Toms River, as well as representatives of Ocean County, the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and NJ TRANSIT.
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When will Lakewood be having a meeting regarding our route 9 traffic and accidents situation?
i heard a bright idea, if you keep the lights green longer by central it will stop the real issue of congestion- that cars have to stop and start again, if you cut that down it help the flow of traffic, and most side streets have cars that would otherwise take the 9 Thank you
Widen the 9. Make it 2 lanes. Common sense!
How are they going to widen the 9? Are they going to knock down all the homes,schools and business’s?
If you make it better the developers will just quadruple the requirements by over developing it again – and you will be back where you started – or worse – at least this way there is a natural deterrent
I have a shocking proposition, so make sure that you are sitting when you read this:
No. More. Building. On. Route. 9. Or. On. Arteries. That. Feed. On. To. Route. 9.
We have been through this a million times and it seems like no one in the township can figure this out.
Last year there was a similar meeting, with bright ideas like adding a gas tax to cover the cost of widening the 9. Sounded somewhat sincere until we found out that large developments are still being planned and built in said location.
The # 1 thing to do in a bad situation is to not make matter worse. If you continue to make matter worse, it proves that you are full of it.
If the city cares at all about the insane traffic situation in the south of Lakewood then something would be done to stop all of the building permits being issued everywhere by members of the Lakewood government who clearly are working with some other agenda. Whatever that agenda is, it does not include helping the traffic nightmare get better. Shame on those who don’t care.
Stop. .The. Building. On. Or. Near. Congested. Roads. Such. As Route. 9. South.
Bla Bla Bla, Study, Study, Study…. same old same old. We will again talk this to death and again do NOTHING!!!!!!!
We have been widening RT9 for 50 years and every time nothing gets done because it is too expensive to buy the land needed to widen the road
Avi. Well said. Property owners can build responsibly but stop the varience free bee.
To #6 Avi
Evey single road in Lakewood feeds into route 9, the only other true N/S roads are Route 70 and Cross St (which is a complete mess in itself and scheduled to get much worse).
I don’t disagree with you. All residential building needs to stop, Lakewood is barely habitable as is.
The argument that building is required for the new generation doesn’t hold water. Most of the new generation of home buyers don’t even want to live in Lakewood. They are happier moving to towns with quiet roads which are safer and more peaceful.
Isn’t there a lew that if the town wants to make a rode but there is a house there the town had a right to just kick u out?
So just take the front peace of all rout 9s propertys and then widen the rode!!!
I beleav they did it in monse on one of those big rodes
here are the only solutions , some may hurt
1. create a bridge at Sunset Road over Lake Carsaljo
2. No more building off immediate sections of rt 9
3. Create a highway over rt 9 that will create an over pass from tons river rt 9 /rt 70 that will go directly over lakewood a local traffic with only one or two exits for lakewood
4. Utilize the existing railroad tracks as trolley cars
One more
Builders should be required to pay a very large infrastructure charge
Hey Mark, do you read what you post?
Realistically speaking,there is currently enough room for 1 more lane on rt 9. They should repaint the lines so that there are 2 lanes from Central until Pine going south and from Prospect to Pine there can be two lanes going North. This will alleviate half of the problem & it can be done TODAY with minimal cost.