{"id":3102,"date":"2015-01-23T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T10:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2015-01-23T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T05:44:07","slug":"major-brick-intersection-to-get-new-crosswalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/01\/major-brick-intersection-to-get-new-crosswalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Brick Intersection to Get New Crosswalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2250\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/11\/construction-begins-to-give-route-70-new-lane-pavement-in-brick\/route70_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2250\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_1-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"Work being performed on Route 70 between Chambers Bridge Road and Forge Pond in Brick. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_1-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_1-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work being performed on Route 70 between Chambers Bridge Road and Forge Pond in Brick. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The intersection of Route 70 and Chambers Bridge Road will receive a new crosswalk funded by the state, Brick officials announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of people on one side who want to get over to the Shop Rite and a lot of people on the other side who want to get to the A&P shopping center,\u201d said Mayor John Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>Ducey said Jamie Fox, the state\u2019s new transportation commissioner, committed to the project when he and Joanne Bergin, the township\u2019s business administrator, met with him recently.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian crosswalk will enable people on foot to safely and legally cross from one shopping center to the other \u2013 a dangerous proposition currently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even tell you how many times I\u2019m coming to town hall from my house and I see people stuck in the median,\u201d Ducey said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/01\/major-brick-intersection-to-get-new-crosswalk\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intersection of Route 70 and Chambers Bridge Road will receive a new crosswalk funded by the state, Brick officials announced this week. \u201cWe have a lot of people on one side who want to get over to the Shop Rite and a lot of people on the other side who want to get to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,628,882,287],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-chambers-bridge-road","tag-crosswalk","tag-route-70"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-O2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}