{"id":3282,"date":"2019-08-19T04:43:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2019-08-19T04:43:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T08:43:31","slug":"county-to-look-toward-traffic-flow-improvements-at-brick-toms-river-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/08\/county-to-look-toward-traffic-flow-improvements-at-brick-toms-river-border\/","title":{"rendered":"County to Look Toward Traffic Flow Improvements at Brick-Toms River Border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beaverson Boulevard to Church Road in Brick and Toms River. (Credit: Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n

Ocean County engineering officials, at the request of members of the freeholder board, will conduct a study to see if the traffic bottleneck at the border of Brick and Toms River can be alleviated.<\/p>\n

The area, busy for decades, will see extra traffic as a result of a new shopping plaza being built at about the spot where Brick Boulevard becomes Hooper Avenue at the border. The delay often runs back into Brick from at least the Church Road intersection.<\/p>\n

John Ernst, the county engineer told Shorebeat that his office will be looking at the frequent traffic backup between the area of Beaverson Boulevard in Brick (at its intersection with Brick Boulevard) and Church Road (at its intersection with Hooper Avenue). Solutions will be jointly decided upon by the county and the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority and will include a series of stakeholder meetings in the future, plus the development of a wide list of plans that could alleviate traffic jams there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have another project that we\u2019re going to work with NJTPA to look at that area,\u201d said Ernst.<\/p>\n

He said the process will be similar to that of the recent decision to replace the Chadwick Island Bridge in Toms River, which was an NJTPA-funded project. In that effort, a slew of varying options were presented to both officials and the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to go through the same process because of the unique character of that corridor and how tight it is,\u201d said Ernst. \u201cWe\u2019re going to look for some alternatives through that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The forthcoming study was cheered by members of the freeholder board.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been that way for 25 years,\u201d said Freeholder Director Virginia Haines. \u201cIt\u2019s just terrible. I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s that bad, but we\u2019re going to take a look at those two intersections and look toward the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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