Yes I been telling them this and fed the original complaint about no guard rail. Dune fencing is for the ocean front not a high speed curve next to an AC transformer and pedestrian and bike path.

They been useless for 50+ years IMHO
Civic activist did the heavy lifting because these civil servants can’t

Here traffic speeds up regardless of pedestrians or baby carriages or

Any update?

I believe the Mayor is forming a Vision Zero 3025 with Mayor Smalls of Atlantic City

61 days and counting. Still no action. It appears the city favors speeding cars over pedestrian safety. What else could it mean?

Indy race track at LSP for the developers

No change…no effort…no surprise

My apologies that this never got acknowledged. We are organizing and prioritizing for this coming 2024 season. This has been on our list, but I would love to get more input. There are several crossings, is it the entire stretch or just the portion between Johnston and where you turn left at the light towards LSC?

Thank you, Althea! It’s a longstanding problem, as you know. It’s the intersection where everyone turns toward the Science Center and the entrance to 78 west.

Here are the four areas with crossings. If you want to say anything more, please chime in. Are there crossings that are more dangerous than others? Are there times of the day where it is worse?

Pedestrian crossings:

Specifically intersection of Jersey Blvd and Communipaw (#3)

1) Signage/flashing lights on either sides of the intersection.
2) Cars not seeing and/or speeding through the intersection, making the intersection dangerous to pedestrians.

#2 is the problem. #1 could be a solution.

The traffic, speeding, trying to make the green arrow for a left turn at the corner at Johnston. Plus traffic turning at a higher than normal speed from Johnston at the same intersection. Both aspects make it dangerous.
Since the Lightrail stops at regular intervals throughout the day, any time of day can be dangerous.

flashing lights or several of these (attached photo)

IMO circled cross walk #4 is quite problematic, as is the crosswalk which would be #5 on that photo (where Communipaw and Johnston meet). There should be flashing pedestrian signs operated by a button at crosswalk #4. At the assumed #5 I’m not sure what’s needed, but drivers regularly take that turn at speed without checking for pedestrians crossing the street.

I am not as worried about the intersection of Johnston and Communipaw at this moment only because later this year, all of Johnston Ave will be redone.

Engineering – Current, Upcoming, and Past Projects can be viewed here: https://cdnsm5-hosted.civiclive.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_6189660/File/Community/Transportation/Engineering,%20Traffic%20&%20Transportation/2024%20Engineering%20CUPP.pdf
Johnston Ave. is on page 14

However, comments from the public as to what the issues are and what solutions they want to see is invaluable. The engineers and planners will look at all possibilities in their tool kit, but look at resolving the issues, the public is voicing, first.

So would you say that the traffic coming from and going to Johnston ave is more aggressive than traffic coming from and to communipaw towards Suydam?

Each of the crossings without traffic lights (#1, #2, and #4) are consistently ignored by drivers who speed through this stretch, even when pedestrians have started crossing. As previous comments have suggested, flashing lights may help here, but maybe also pairing with something like raised pedestrian crossings would help to make this area much safer?

I didn't see the map earlier, nor did I know that the road in question is Communipaw Ave.

So I will define the problem from #4 on the map all the way to Johnston Ave, where there are no
pedestrian caution signs of any kind.
Having caution signs IN the roadway at various points may go a long way in changing the mindset of the drivers on that stretch along side the Lioghtrail.
Johnston is not the problem, it's Communipaw.

How much could these in-road stop signs/pedestrian crossing cost BTW? And how difficult?

I have one more suggestion. POLICE presence!
Maybe not for the long haul, but having a patrol car in sight on Communipaw periodically and for some period of time, ticketing speeders, and enforcing the law, I guarantee will help keep people safe.

The City can take a leadership role here enforcing this "Slow down or be ticketed, we mean it"

I agree with others that drivers generally ignore the crosswalks without lights. The traffic is worse/faster heading toward Johnston because people are trying to make the light at Johnston and because of the many New York cars that get off the Turnpike extension early, and cut through downtown JC to get to the Holland Tunnel. But the one crosswalk near the turn (closest to Suydam) is really dangerous, too, because cars speed into the curve, not realizing pedestrians could be there. I find that cars generally do stop where there are crosswalks that have the button you can press to initiate flashing lights, like on Garfield next to Berry Lane Park.
Thanks for working on this!

Ok, here is the deal. I had no idea that the portion of Communipaw at the southern bend to Johnston Ave is completely owned by NJ Transit and not the City.

Our transportation engineer believes that there will be improvements to this area, but does not know the timeline. He is going to reach out to NJ Transit to find out.

Thank you, Althea! But that doesn’t make me very hopeful.

We will reach out to them. The fact that NJT was already planning this is a good sign. In addition, the City has about 500 requests that we need to prioritize. If this work is being done by NJT then that means another area we can focus on sooner than later.

If this was not already in the works, then I would be upset. This is good news and I don't want to repeat anything that I heard until it can be confirmed, but I think you all will be happy about the solutions.

I found this for feedback. Perhaps you can post it to community groups and get people to request better pedestrian crossings.

Thank you! I didn’t see a link for feedback. I’d be happy to spread the word!

Well Althea,

When I brought up this issue on this platform last July 1st, I was thinking the urgency of the matter would prompt a correction sooner, though I'm happy to know you're on it now.

If I could, I would make it clear to NJT that luckily no one has been hurt up to this point (at least not that I'm aware of).
But of course that could change in an instant, as young children, the elderly and the handicapped too must navigate the width of Communipaw safely day and night. I would hope NJT wouldn't want to have to act in response to a fatality, especially after all these concerns expressed here for months.

Our office looks at long term solutions. These take years to implement and are mostly set at the beginning of the year. While this section is important, there are currently 426 safety requests dating back to 2019. About 90% claiming that their area is very dangerous and asking if it takes a death for the City is waiting for someone to die before taking action.

This doesn't make this stretch of road any less important; this is just to give everyone a sense of the work load and the limitation of how many issues we can address in a year.

What we did completely fail at is communication, plus the organization and prioritization of SCF requests. My hope is that I set up an easy system that doesn't allow this situation of 1,200 outstanding requests to happen again. I hate excuses. We needed to do better.

Here is the link: https://njtransit.my.salesforce-sites.com/customerservice/site_app#/contactus

I really thought I sent it! I am so sorry.

NJ Transit takes years to start a project, so this has been in the works for awhile (again with no communication by them or us to the community).

I want a timeline and a description. The NJ Transit projects page touts all of their projects and gives project updates https://www.njtransit.com/reports but these announcements seem to be from 2016-2017 for projects that completed in 2021.

However, the public pushing from their end and us pushing from our end, we can get information while showing the public is demanding this info.

Thank you, Anthea, What about the section of Johnston between Pine St and Communipaw? Is this second also owned by NJ Transit? Cars go speeding through the cross walks all of the time. We need flashing lights and stop signs and enforcement!

Johnston Ave is being entirely redone from Phillip St to Grand St.

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This even means the intersection at Johnston and Communipaw.

I will need to follow up with where NJ Transit is with redoing Communipaw along the Lght Rail.