Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles responds to your ‘Ask The Mayor’ questions: Flashing traffic lights at night for Lakewood

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:

Dear Mayor,

Firstly, thank you for all the good you have done, including allowing us the opportunity to contact you through this forum.

Now for my question. I know other areas including other townships in NJ where after a certain time at night say 11 or 11:30, the traffic lights change to either flashing red or a combination of red/yellow for the two different directions. Maybe as a possibility this can be implemented for some of the township controlled traffic lights.

Thank you
Matt

Response from Mayor Coles:

Hi Matt,

Sorry for the delayed response. It’s been a busy time at work for me.

Many places where the lights flash after a certain hour are much smaller and quieter places than Lakewood. I do not know if we ever have a really slow period of time where that might work. I will run it by our traffic and safety officers and see how they feel about it. Please get back to me if you had certain intersections in mind.

Thanks

Ray

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8 COMMENTS

  1. the 2 new lights going up on oak st would be a good candidate for this. 6pm-6am would be good, since there is not much traffic at those 2 intersections after school hours

  2. I agree with the mayor that 11 or 11:30 pm may be too early for Lakewood. As someone who is on the roads till about 3:30 every morning I can assure you that from about 1 am the roads are pretty much empty. From 1:00 am until about 5:00 am would be an ideal time to try this in a nice chunk of Lakewood. Another solution would be to install sensors which would only make traffic signals turn red when a car approaches.

  4. @thelakewoodscoop I am still waiting for a response from the mayor to questions I sent in over 4 months ago

    Any way to find out what happened being it goes through the Lakewood scoop?

    Thank you.s

  6. @Mayor Ray Coles Among other people’s comments I was also thinking about airport road and the GSP exit where there can be zero cars and a very long red light.

    Matt

  7. I drive around Lakewood at night, and this is a great suggestion. I’ve always wondered why this isn’t done in Lakewood.

    Here are some intersections that can use this feature after 1AM

    Princeton x County
    Princeton x Kennedy
    Somerset x county
    Clifton x County
    Clinton x Kennedy
    4th st x Monmouth
    4th st x Clifton
    Route 88 x clover
    Forest Ave x 14th st

    Thank you

  8. I agree also the left turn onto Kennedy BLVD.driving route 9 south bound coming from Howell you have to wait so long to make the turn it is only green for 10 seconds

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