Friday, August 24, 2012
Work includes widening shoulders from mile markers 83 to 99
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority's Board of Commissioners has approved construction contracts worth $330.3 million for a project that will restore full-width shoulders and make other safety improvements of a 16-mile stretch roadway in Ocean and Monmouth counties. The project will start at mile marker 83.5 in Toms River and will run to mile marker 99.5. Construction will begin this fall and is scheduled to be completed in 2014. “There is no better use for our capital dollars than projects like this one that make our roads safer,” Transportation Commissioner James Simpson said in a prepared statement. “When the project is complete, a section of the Parkway with narrow shoulders, narrow travel lanes and a history of accidents will be built …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Growing enrollment, OCC-Kean partnership sparking need for new access driveway, student center
In two separate ordinances on Wednesday, the Ocean County Board of Freeholders approved $18.5 million in spending for improvements to the campus at Ocean County College. Thanks to state funding and money from the college itself, the measures are expected to cost the county $11 million of that total, however, Freeholder Deputy Director John C. Bartlett said. The improvements are the result of the college’s partnership with Kean University that allows students to start at OCC and wind up with a bachelor’s degree from Kean. “This is going to be a major development for our community,” Freeholder Director Gerry Little said. “It will offer students an affordable baccalaureate degree for under $25,000 total.” One ordinance, for $8.5 million, will…
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Improvement project will reconstruct lanes, add shoulders and improve access to the highway
Engineers are in the final design stage of a $250 million Garden State Parkway improvement project that is set to begin in 2012, officials announced Monday. Representatives from the New Jersey Turnpike Authority were in Brick on Monday, showing off their plans for a large-scale roadway improvement project that will increase shoulder width, remove obstructions, improve sight distance and reconstruct the roadway between mile markers 83 and 100 in both directions. The state will work with Ocean County officials to reconstruct three interchanges – 83, 88-89 and 91 – while also improving Route 70 and Burnt Tavern Rd. in Brick to better accommodate Parkway traffic. "This is an area of roadway that is more than 50 years old, and we finally have …
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Michele Spector
11:48 pm on Friday, April 26, 2013
I just found out from someone in Brick municipal complex that they cut sooo many more trees then they were supposed to. Because of this screw up they have proposed some new plans to fix this. We are having meeting at Evergreen Woods assn tuesday night, May 30th. I will have to confirm it is definitely on. I was also told that our lawyer has what they are proposing to do. I believe Senator … more ›