Reservoir has the maximum number of speed humps that can be installed already in place per state statue. I will change the category of the request to reflect the stop sign request.

This issue was recategorized from Speed Hump Request to Pedestrian Safety Study Request.

Jersey City, NJ assigned this issue to Traffic – Jennifer C

6 weeks later... Any update here? If they have the maximum # of speed bumps (???) ok reservoir, can we get curb bumpouts? Concrete like Ogden + wood would be great, but flexposts is all I know we can get. An all way stop would help but the speeding is wild on that stretch on both reservoir and lineau

So dangerous walking there. I had been crossing over lineau on reservoir and cars have had to slam on their breaks while I was in the crosswalk. They do not pay attention and the speed probably close to 40 on this area. Now I just stand on the corner and wait for all the cars to pass, hope someone doesn’t speed up out of the blue, check all ways multiple times because people also drive against the one way roads, and say a prayer as I cross. It’s crazy how dangerous booraem reservoir lineau and Webster have become round here. And never any cops enforcing speed limits in residential areas.

Need a stop sign at the least!

Cars coming off Central constantly speed all the way up to 55 Reservoir where there is the 1st speed bump on the street. There is no way the ONE speed bump from Central to Baldwin is the maximum allowed by the State.

There also needs to be a speed bump right before t stop sign on lineau. Cars speed down from reservoir and never stop at the stop sign which has a crosswalk.

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Thank you Daniella!

Is there any reason this request took 3 months to reach the 'thank you for submitting your issue, we'll start the field investigation' stage, despite already being acknowledged by Traffic dept?

Reservoir Ave is a through street which means all streets intersecting with Reservoir Ave that is not signalized or a "main street" is posted with a stop sign and Leinau St is posted with Stop sign, Reservoir Ave also has speed humps. We will issue work orders to install missing No parking signs to make visibility to pedestrians crossing

thank you! is there any way to issue a work order for painted, flexpost or concrete curb bump-outs, to further dissuade illegal parking that blocks pedestrian crossings as well? the bump-out project on booream/palisade has slowed traffic pretty well from my experience!

Hi Daniella and Sean, really appreciate you taking the time to respond to this request. As I mentioned earlier it’s a really dangerous crossing and I don’t think the suggested signage is going to help. Seeing pedestrians at the crosswalks does not dissuade drivers from accelerating through, and wouldn’t help at the speeds they are going. The signs won’t do anything; people park in the crosswalk already. This intersection needs a stop sign. It’s the only thing that will make it safe for the people who live here.

Also, Sean, I was wondering about the state statue regarding speed humps. Can you let us know where to find that? Other streets in the area seem to have more over a similar distance. Booraem, which is directly parallel has 4, including two at the same section of street we are discussing here (between Central and Lienau).

The combination of a speed hump and stop sign seem to be the only thing that slows down drivers and makes them stop. It works at the intersection of Reservoir and Webster. I’m just asking for the same thing at the heart of a dense residential block with lots of pedestrians.

Daniella- Booraem and lienau have a stop sign but if your driving on reservoir going straight or turning left on lienau there is no stop sign.
Also the no parking signs won’t work unless parking comes to enforce and they do not. People park in the crosswalk all the time and never have a ticket. A stop sign is the best solution

Work order issued has been completed

Hi Daniella, I appreciate your help on this, but there’s still an outstanding question of why there can’t be a speed hump leading up to this intersection or a stop sign at the intersection? Can you point us to the State Statute referenced in an earlier comment be Sean from Traffic, or other reason these after measures can’t be instituted?

Parking in the crosswalks is already a problem in this neighborhood. I don’t think the signs you suggest will make this intersection safer for the families, including those with young children, who frequently use this intersection.

As per stated by Sean in August 2023 - Reservoir has the maximum number of speed humps that can be installed already in place per state statue. So I issued work orders to have No Parking Anytime signs installed so that will clear the corners/ crosswalks so that it will increase the visibility not only for the drivers but for the pedestrians as well.

Hi Daniella, appreciate your response! I think there’s still some confusion as to my question: what is the statute that says Reservoir cannot have another speed hump or stop sign? I’m confused as to why that statute would not apply to other streets in the area: Booraem, Cambridge Avenue, Sherman Place, Manhattan Avenue. All of those streets have multiple speed humps, some with multiple on one block. Why does this statute apply to Reservoir and not those?

Also, visibility will not fix the problem if drivers don’t stop for pedestrians. If you walk around any of the streets in that area, it will be very obvious to you.

We're all dying to hear the answer to this. We just keep hearing it can't be done according to state law, but not what the law is.

Is the restriction on speed humps based on the higher number of cars that drive down the street? That would be funny, since the fact that so many cars use it as a through street is exactly why we need the speed humps in the first place!

2. a. Pursuant to the provisions of section 3 of P.L.2004, c.107 (C.39:4-8.11), a municipality or county may . . . construct a speed hump on two-lane residential streets and on one-way residential streets under municipal or county jurisdiction with a posted speed of 30 mph or less and which have fewer than 3,000 vehicles per day.

https://www.nj.gov/transportation/eng/documents/speedhumps/

we will conduct an accident analysis to see if the intersection meets within the requirements of having the intersection made into a all way stop

What about the request for a speed bump?

Is the only way to get a stop sign through an accident analysis? Seems counterintuitive that there needs to be accidents to get a measure to prevent accidents. Residents are raising a concern, suggesting a preventative measure to alleviate said concern and the response is to only proceed if it can be reclassified as a proactive measure?

According to NJ DOT, there is no maximum number of speed bumps allowed:

https://www.nj.gov/transportation/eng/documents/speedhumps/#:~:text=107%20(C.,than%203%2C000%20vehicles%20per%20day.

Unless you can point to a State Statute that states this then it appears there either is none or it's be incorrectly followed. Also, Booraem Ave (the next block over) has a minimum of 4 speed humps running the same span (Central to Palisade) as Reservoir Ave. I'm sure I can find more blocks that also have more than 2 if you would like. Currently, there are humps at 28 Reservoir & 64 Reservoir. Why is it so hard to get one located at 88 Reservoir?

This is what I was getting at above. Is the number of speed humps limited because it's a high traffic through street for cars moving from Central to Webster? And therefore the cars can't be slowed down? But it's also a high pedestrian traffic area...so what, we need to have a lot of accidents there first in order to get traffic calming?

Booraem is not a high traffic street, so it's okay to have a lot of speed humps? (I've requested crosswalks on Booraem and Ferry in another post, for the record.)

I'm just guessing here since it's hard to get definitive answers in this comments discussion. But that seems to be what is being said.

I have your Booraem and Ferry street crosswalks on my striping list..

Jumping in to agree here. This is a very dangerous corner within close proximity of a park, playground, and a school. Cars do not slow or stop on reservoir for pedestrians in the crosswalk at Lienau and many of us have had close calls on the regular with cars speeding down this block and those instances will not be included in the data on any accident analysis. I think we’re all failing to understand why with the focus on project zero there is such resistance to making this corner safer by adding a stop sign and/or a speed bump.

I am switching this to Pedestrian Safety study since Daniella completed her work and there is a strong need for traffic calming at this intersection... also along a stretch of reservoir? From what to what?

This issue was recategorized from Traffic: Street Signage Maintenance to Pedestrian Safety Study Request.

Jersey City, NJ assigned this issue to Traffic – Jennifer C

The stretch in question is reservoir between central and Lineau. The intersection is reservoir and lineau.

There is also a curb bump out request that has been acknowledged and added to "the list" on this corner but that was 6+ months ago.

We are working on the priority for this coming year now. There are a lot of requests, so it is taking me longer than i thought to pull everything together. However, I hear you and the more info i have, the better! So I really appreciate everyone's input on these requests, it is immensely helpful.

And thank you for all your help as well, Althea!

This is really great! Thank you so much. Looking forward to seeing the results of those studies.

Reservoir is being repaved this week. I wanted to check and make sure the existing speed hump will be replaced. I was also thinking this would be a good time for other pedestrian friendly updates to this and surrounding streets: crosswalk repainting, repainting the boundaries around the crosswalks (so it's clear when a car is parked too close), adding new speedhumps.

I will check in with the parties involved. I believe the repaving is being done by PSE&G, so I will need to find out their process. Everything that was there before, ie. speed humps, driveway markings..., are supposed to be returned.

for real, is it so impossible to get some flexi-bollards in the no-parking zones? it makes a bigger difference than it appears, with a good example nearby at palisade and booream. appreciate all your assistance, it seems like we have a real opportunity here with repaving!

This isn't a no, but a different project. We are still waiting for our order of delineators to come in. It has been over 6 months. Supply chains are still a problem.

PSE&G is like a private developer. They rip up the streets and they must return them to their original condition. We can not force them to do more than that by law. If we were redoing the roads, that would be a whole different story.

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