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
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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… |
Interesting to hear that the UCI is to re-introduce Derny racing…
The return of the derny? I hope so…
#UCI #keirin #ebike
— 🌹ᴀʟᴀɴ ᴇ ʜɪʟʟ🌹 (@alanehill.com) September 27, 2026 at 6:10 AM
The New Jersey “e-Bike” law is an all round disaster…
Just another New Jersey “e-bike” law casualty
C3 e-bikes – pedelec, motor assisted to 28mph/45kmh, no throttle – are often used as pacers for training and organised recreational club rides, as well as recovery/rehabilitation for people who use road, tri- and gravel bikes
#shotinthefootNJ #bikesky— Red Bank Bike (@redbank.bike) September 27, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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New Jersey… Always willing to talk the talk… Not so good for those who walk the walk…
In 2026, pedestrian and cycling deaths on NJ streets – and sidewalks – continue to rise as a percentage of road deaths, even as the total falls.
9/25/2026: 384 dead in 267 days on New Jersey roads in 2026, including 113peds + 11cyclists
Every single victim killed either in or being hit by a car, bus or truck10 dead every week on NJ roads
#visionzero #bikeped
— NJCrash💥 (@njcrash.bsky.social) September 25, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Good to see the mayor+council’s principled stand against Flock cameras as cited in today’s Red Bank Green article https://www.redbankgreen.com/2026/09/red-bank-flock-cameras-09152026/
So just a reminder of those simpler times when the borough plotted its own excursion into surveillance territory, and it only cost $410,312.45…
Resolution 24-212, proposed by Cllr Triggiano and passed unanimously at the meeting of the mayor+council, September 26, 2024.
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Resolution 24-212, tabled at the September 26, 2024 meeting of Red Bank’s mayor+council |
And as noted in the following Minutes
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| Proposed by Cllr Triggiano and passed unanimously using the method regular meeting attendees refer to as the “rubber-stamp” technique |
*https://bsky.app/profile/alanehill.com/post/3mvn4w3y7yk2c
In 2026 a third of all deaths on New Jersey roads are either a pedestrian or cyclist…
New Jersey roads: Year on year fatalities are reported to have fallen by 8.5%
However, 2026 cyclist and pedestrian deaths currently aggregate to the same as 2025 which means the %age of VRU deaths is now running at 32% of the total1 in 3 NJ deaths on the road is either a cyclist or pedestrian
— NJCrash💥 (@njcrash.bsky.social) September 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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The town is a multiple safe streets awards winner… No! Really?
BikePed infrastructure benefits the community AND local businesses, services, security and the environment.
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The extent of Red Bank’s multi-million $ Broad Walk “development”
bicycle parking facility. These consumer-level products are commonly
known as ‘Wheel Wreckers” and are highly portable with a small truck
Just strolled by the new One Globe Court on one of Red Bank’s more historic streets.
Once again concerned about the safety of this largely wooden building and also when apartments are going to be on sale. Given the glut of “luxury apartments” in the town I suppose a delay is inevitable.
But my main concern today is the encroachment beyond the property line and immediately up to the sidewalk which is also compromised by an overhang and the massive utility poles set in the sidewalk which must surely reduce its specification below Complete Streets and ADA requirements.
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| One Globe Ct, August 2026, sidewalk security measures looking rather battered and well… unsafe… |
The Planning/Zoning boards approval of this development was a travesty. Yes, I attended all the meetings and listened to all the reports, even the “traffic engineer’s” rather imaginative submission…
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| One Globe Court September 2025… Don’t mention cladding, fire resistance or utility overload… |
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| Red Bank heritage “ghost signage” ground up without record under One Globe Court – June 2024 |
