So, how are people riding bicycles from the west side to access to the town’s only (admittedly poorly maintained) bike lanes on S Bridge?
New Jersey e-bike law: It’s hard to see how Sen Mukherji’s S4830 amendment will ease the confusion.
In fact it will just add to the bewilderment, and NJ will still end up with the most draconian, restrictive and plain unworkable e-bike legislation in the world.
If only they’d asked…
#https://www.wired.com/story/new-jerseys-new-ebike-law-is-causing-chaos/
I took a stroll to see how the council’s much heralded safety project at the skewed intersection Bridge St and Drs James Parker Blvd is progressing – more on this another day…
However, given the town’s long list of cycling and pedestrian safety awards, it wasn’t a great surprise to see how the only bike lanes in Red Bank are fairing…
Year-on-year in 2026 New Jersey traffic deaths have fallen by over 7%.
Unfortunately pedestrian and cyclists’ deaths have actually risen and now constitute over a third of all deaths on NJ roads:
10/30/2026: 444 dead in 300 days on New Jersey roads in 2026, including 137peds + 13cyclists
Each victim killed either in or being hit by a car, bus or truckTotal fatalities have fallen by 35 year-on-year
Bikeped deaths have risen to over a third of the state’s total
#visionzero #bikeped #bikesky— NJCrash💥 (@njcrash.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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*https://bsky.app/profile/njcrash.bsky.social/post/3mz3z3slkr22a
*https://bsky.app/profile/alanehill.com
Here I am… My world’s biannual temporal shift between “summer” and “standard” times
BST>GMT and a week later, EDT>EST
At least The Traitors will be an hour earlier this week
And now they’re saying that Time doesn’t really exist… Everything everywhere, all at once
#wibblywobblytimeywimey
— 🌹ᴀʟᴀɴ ᴇ ʜɪʟʟ🌹 (@alanehill.com) October 25, 2026 at 10:08 AM
# https://bsky.app/profile/alanehill.com
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| Red Bank council caucus meeting… |
Usually published only 24 hours before the next council meeting—leaving the community little opportunity to prepare—the agenda and previous minutes typically list the mayor’s latest proclamations about his friends and the latest “tick-the-box” events. These are followed by a list of ordinances and resolutions, often itemized with blank placeholders, ready for a superficial “discussion” and the inevitable unanimous rubber-stamping by the town’s Faithful.
Like the vast majority of the Red Bank community I have now come to the conclusion that it’s futile to attend these charades, but I recommend reading the minutes of the previous meeting to see what the council and its members are up to. In this case I was drawn to Councillor Nancy Facey-Blackwood’s report given to the October 8 meeting.
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| Vision Zero is a road safety strategy that aims to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries while improving safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all |
This concerns a document drawn up by one of the council’s army of “consultants” regarding the implementation of a Vision Zero Local Safety Action Plan. Apparently the draft has been “released” to the mayor’s selective and unaccountable Complete & Green Streets Committee, yet, as usual, no provision for any consultation with the community, several of whom are either road safety engineers or veteran road safety campaigners, in the compilation or review of this vital programme for safer streets.
All this from a council which claims it is dedicated to open government yet doesn’t trust its constituents.
Kudos to Princeton Tapinto’s monthly Princeton Crash ReportIt is now absolutely essential the borough publishes all planning and zoning application documents, drawings/plans, elevations, traffic engineer reports, etc., on line.
Residents are fed up with turning up at meetings and being faced with highly complex projects with only vague items being listed on the official agenda, then listening to often masses of information, data and reports to which we do not have access so that we, residents in this town, can properly examine and ask serious questions, make constructive comments and make our considered views known
Yes, I know… The Director of Community Development will tell me that documents are available in the town hall planning offices any time anyone would like to go in and see them, forgetting that many people have mobility issues, may not drive cars, work patterns may preclude a visit, and as this author found out, be issued a $48 parking fine for parking in the virtually empty town hall lot while attending an evening planning board meeting. Thx RBPD…
I don’t need to lay out the long list of planning/zoning disasters which have become prevalent in this town lately, in practice, rubber-stamped by this council and its committees and boards with only notional public input.
I don’t want to hear yet another glib traffic engineer’s report and watch the board roll over yet again.
Don’t tell me it can’t be done… Many local authorities already do this, even in New Jersey…
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| Newark makes documents available via Google Drive… |
