{"id":10539,"date":"2026-06-02T06:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:29:04","slug":"seven-stop-signs-coming-to-roadway-stretch-in-toms-river-speed-limit-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2026\/06\/seven-stop-signs-coming-to-roadway-stretch-in-toms-river-speed-limit-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Stop Signs Coming to Roadway Stretch in Toms River; Speed Limit Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9117\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Stop_sign_52945871045-1-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Image from Wikimedia\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Image from Wikimedia\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9117\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9117\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Stop_sign_52945871045-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"SDC inception, Flickr images reviewed by FlickreviewR 2, Oregon Department of Transportation, Photographs by the Oregon Department of Transportation\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Stop_sign_52945871045-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Stop_sign_52945871045-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Stop_sign_52945871045-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Stop_sign_52945871045-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Stop_sign_52945871045-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=133384261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A busy \u2013 but sensitive \u2013 area of Toms River will see an influx of stop signs installed soon after concerns were raised by residents. Meanwhile, another corridor will see its speed limit reduced.<\/p>\n<p>The township council last week approved a measure that would add stop signs to numerous intersections in a neighborhood north of Route 37, off Brookside Drive. The stop signs will be installed at the intersections of Greenwich Court and Ocean View Drive (on Greenwich); Greenwich Court and Raleigh Drive (on Greenwich); Knight Street and Kingsley Court (on Kingsley Court); Knight Street and Regal Court (on Regal Court); Knight Street and Royal Lane (on Knight Street); Royal Lane and Medallion Lane (on Medallion Lane); and Castle Drive and Kingsley Court (on Kingsley Court).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We checked on about 30 intersections, and seven of them had no stop signs,&#8221; said Township Engineer John M. Mele.<\/p>\n<p>The council also unanimously approved an ordinance that would reduce the speed limit along the entire length of Walnut Street from 40 m.p.h. to 35 m.p.h.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2026\/06\/seven-stop-signs-coming-to-roadway-stretch-in-toms-river-speed-limit-dropped\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy \u2013 but sensitive \u2013 area of Toms River will see an influx of stop signs installed soon after concerns were raised by residents. Meanwhile, another corridor will see its speed limit reduced. The township council last week approved a measure that would add stop signs to numerous intersections in a neighborhood north of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,1993,1737,2127,11,2126],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-featured","tag-newsbreak","tag-speed-limit","tag-stop-signs","tag-toms-river-nj-news","tag-walnut-street"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Stop_sign_52945871045-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}