{"id":9086,"date":"2023-07-07T02:56:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2023-07-07T05:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T09:07:24","slug":"toms-river-to-lower-speed-limits-some-significantly-on-five-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2023\/07\/toms-river-to-lower-speed-limits-some-significantly-on-five-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River to Lower Speed Limits, Some Significantly, on Five Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9087\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15886521828_37bdec812b_k.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"A 25 m.p.h. speed limit sign. (Credit: Chad Kainz\/ Flickr\/ Creative Commons)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"A 25 m.p.h. speed limit sign. (Credit: Chad Kainz\/ Flickr\/ Creative Commons)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9087\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9087\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15886521828_37bdec812b_k-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A 25 m.p.h. speed limit sign. (Credit: Chad Kainz\/ Flickr\/ Creative Commons)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15886521828_37bdec812b_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15886521828_37bdec812b_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15886521828_37bdec812b_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15886521828_37bdec812b_k-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15886521828_37bdec812b_k.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 25 m.p.h. speed limit sign. (Credit:<br \/>Chad Kainz\/ Flickr\/ Creative Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River Township council members introduced an ordinance last week that would lower speed limits on several township streets \u2013 including a significant drop in speed for a few of them.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance was passed on first reading, meaning it requires a public hearing and second vote before being enacted. Council members did not comment on the reductions at the meeting, but voted unanimously in favor of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The streets affected by the speed limit changes are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cardinal Drive:<\/strong> From 35 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h., entire length.<br \/>\n<strong>South Shore Drive:<\/strong> From 35 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h., entire length.<br \/>\n<strong>Colonial Drive:<\/strong> From 30 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h., entire length.<br \/>\n<strong>Continental Drive:<\/strong> From 30 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h., entire length.<br \/>\n<strong>Schencks Mill Line Road:<\/strong> From 45 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h., between Hooper Avenue and its northern terminus.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance is scheduled for a public hearing and second vote at the July 12 council meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2023\/07\/toms-river-to-lower-speed-limits-some-significantly-on-five-streets\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River Township council members introduced an ordinance last week that would lower speed limits on several township streets \u2013 including a significant drop in speed for a few of them. The ordinance was passed on first reading, meaning it requires a public hearing and second vote before being enacted. Council members did not comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,1737,11],"class_list":["post-9086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-featured","tag-speed-limit","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15886521828_37bdec812b_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086","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=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}