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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Smoke from bush-fires far to the north has settled over NJ/NYC over the past several days threatening the health and well-being of those of us living under its yellow cloud.
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Red Bank NJ: 7:30am looking east |
These levels of toxicity are often apparent in our town if not as visible. We really need to get local pollution under control.
There seems to be a reluctance to act on this at every level. This town can’t even confront, let alone control, its own congestion and poison…
Red Bank NJ: Thursday’s Zoning Board meeting saw apartment developers, Incredible OZ, withdraw their application to build 14 units on a derelict single-family plot on the congested and polluted Shrewsbury Avenue corridor.
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| AIslop view of one block of the proposed units to the usual standard of Red Bank “architecture”… |
The developers were seeking extensive variances from the town’s code and there were also several business and commercial code variations and deletions which needed to be addressed.
Of course, no one, not even the board, could acknowledge the recent public – well, on Facebook anyway – debate on the rate and quality of development in the town. Nevertheless staunch Ready! Faithfuls – and realtors – on the board continued to express their support.
Whilst many on the board failed to catch the pervading community zeitgeist, at least Incredible OZ seemed to realise the issue.
redbankgreen’s report quoted the developers lawyer as saying they’d be back with a “better product,”. It will be fascinating to see what they mean by that.
