West Bay Ave going over GSP bridge to Lighthouse Dr

Barnegat, New Jersey•Sep 10, 2010•2 Comments

The W. Bay Ave (County Road 554) bridge going over the Garden State Parkway in the past had one lane in each direction with a speed limit of 30 mph in a business area. As of July, 2010 the bridge now contains 6 lanes total, where the west bound side contains 4 lanes (at the bottom of the bridge 2 of the 4 lanes become left turns). The speed limit is still 30 mph, yet the road has an average of 3 lanes in each direction, it is in a business area and rarely do pedestrians ever cross the bridge. Rarely, does anyone travel 30 mph. Most people drive 40-50 mph on the bridge, which the police count on in order to hand out easy tickets.

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I am in the middle of fighting my ticket of an alleged 50 mph in a 30 mph zone. I requested the latest engineering/traffic survey of this road. The last survey was done over 5 years ago in 2004, the posted speed limit at the time was 45 mph (85th percentile was 47 mph). The city requested to lower the speed limit to 40 mph and was denied by the Transportation Commissioner. It is against Federal law to lower the speed limit more than 10 mph below the 85th percentile per Manual on Uniform traffic Control Devices. I highly recommend fighting this ticket. They just bumped the speed limit to 35 mph (11/14/10), I don't believe they're going thruough the proper channels to change the speed limit.
#1•Nov 14, 2010•Report Abuse
As of1/13/11, they returned the speed limit back to its legal status of 45mph.
#2•Jan 18, 2011•Report Abuse

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