Monday, March 11, 2013
No injuries were caused by the accident.
Kevin O'Shea of the Chatham Borough Police Department said a large pothole caused a driver to veer into a parked car and caused the accident that blocked Kings Road Monday. Jed Noah, 50, of Morganville was traveling west on Kings Road Monday afternoon when he struck a large pothole near the back exit of Chatham Plaza. O'Shea said this caused Noah's 2011 Acura to veer to the right and strike a parked car, after which Noah's car rolled over and came to rest on its roof. Noah was not injured and was outside of his car when Patrolman Wayne Shivers arrived on the scene at 12:16 p.m. Police closed off Kings Road until the accident was cleared away. The Chatham Emergency Squad also responded to the scene. No summonses were issued and both cars …
Monday, April 23, 2012
The borough received less grant money than originally anticipated.
The Chatham Borough Council decided Monday to "scale back" the original plan for improvements along Kings Road due to financial constraints. The borough received a grant of $65,000 from the state Department of Transportation, but Engineer Vincent J. DeNave said it "is not enough to do the entire project." Two other grant applications, which would have included milling and paving and pedestrian safety improvements such as mid-block crosswalks and a flashing radar sign for motorists, were denied. DeNave said with the $300,000 the borough already bonded for the project and the grant money, "I want to plan for doing some improvements on Kings Road without additional money." DeNave said he believes the project can be done for about $90,000, …
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Chatham Borough took its share of $2.5 million awarded to District 21 towns.
Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick announced Thursday that the New Jersey Department of Transportation has awarded $2.5 million in pedestrian safety and roadway preservation grants to 14 municipalities in the 21st Distict. Of the $2.5 million, Chatham Borough was awarded $65,000 for the pedestrian safety project along Kings Road. All other grants were awarded to roadway preservation projects. The borough was the only municipality to win a grant for a pedestrian safety project. "This funding will help us repair important local roads and keep pedestrians safe in our communities," Bramnick said. Borough Council Member James Collander said he was pleased to hear about the grant award. "It's going to give us some resources to do something …
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Borough, other groups look to educate residents on benefits of pedestrian, bike transportation along Kings Road and other parts of town..
The Chatham Borough Council passed two resolutions approving grant applications for transportation modifications in two different areas in town at its Monday night meeting. Both resolutions call for a grant agreement with the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The first grant, worth $104,075, will go toward improving traffic and pedestrian safety conditions on Kings Road between Lafayette and Division Avenues. The second, titled the Kings Road Preservation Improvement Project, is for pedestrian improvements, including a sidewalk, and totals $144,500. One group that is in favor of these improvements is the borough’s Safe Routes to School Committee, which looks to reduce the amount of injuries to pedestrians and bicyclists, …
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Traffic Safety Committee applied for grants to improve safety, including one to construct sidewalk.
The Traffic Safety Committee announced at its meeting on Tuesday evening that it applied for a pair of grants to improve the situation at Kings Road. The first grant is for $292,000 while the other is for $90,000. The $292,000 grant is for the reconstruction of the actual roadway and the other is for safety devices to help thwart aggressive drivers, according to council member Jim Collander, who serves as the borough council liaison to the Traffic Safety Committee. "We are contemplating one sidewalk on the north side of Kings Road to run the full length of the road and we have a number of safety devices that are included in the grant application," Collander said. Some of the safety devices include local law enforcement parked on the street…
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Monday, September 12, 2011
The Chatham Borough Council meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The Chatham Borough Council will vote on whether to apply for two grants to improve safety along Kings Road. The grants, both offered by the state Department of Transportation, would give the borough a combined $383,394 to improve traffic and pedestrian safety along Kings Road, which has been one of the Traffic Safety Committee's top projects this year. The committee sent a survey to the residents of Kings Road asking for their opinions on what improvements should be made to the roadway to improve safety. Council member Jim Collander, who serves as the liaison to the Traffic Safety Committee, said residents were slow in responding over the summer, but the committee now has enough responses to warrant a meeting scheduled for Tuesday night. …
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
A month after surveys went out, council member says about half have responded.
Council Member James Collander urged Kings Road residents to send their responses to a survey from the Traffic Safety Committee on traffic practices along the road. At a Traffic Safety Committee meeting in early July, the committee decided to deliver surveys to residents of Kings Road asking their opinions on how the road should be handled. Collander said Borough Engineer Vincent DeNave hand-delivered about 40 surveys asking residents about safety and speed control devices, "so we can try to get a consensus from the residents." As of Thursday morning, Collander said about 65 percent, or approximately 26 residents, have sent responses. When the Chatham Borough Council met on Aug. 8, only eight residents had responded. "We're going to go and…
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
A poll will soon be distributed to residents for them to vote on how to regulate traffic safety.
Officials believe motorists along Kings Road struggle to obey the posted 25-mile-per-hour speed limit. However, that won't be the case for long. Following a Traffic Safety Committee meeting on Wednesday evening, residents of Kings Road, which has come under scrutiny due to aggressive drivers recently, will soon decide how best to ensure that drivers obey the speed limit. Vince DeNave, the borough engineer, is working on the ballot and will deliver it to each house on Kings Road "as soon as he can," Mayor Nelson Vaughan said after the meeting. At the meeting, where a dozen Kings Road residents came to voice their opinion, Vaughan took a poll as to how the speed limit should be enforced. Some of the suggestions were: "The next step is that …
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The residential road parallel to Main Street has one of the highest incidents of speeding in borough.
Kings Road is on the Chatham Borough Police Department's radar—literally. The department has spent several months monitoring the behavior of motorists along Kings Road, which runs south of Main Street from Lafayette Avenue west into Madison. For cars heading eastbound into Chatham, the speed limit drops from 30 to 25 miles per hour at Division Avenue, the border between the two boroughs. Despite the high number of residences along the road, the street does not have sidewalks and the only pedestrian crosswalk is located at the intersection with Lafayette Avenue. According to James Collander, the Chatham Borough Council's liaison to the Traffic Safety Committee, residents have complained that few motorists obey the street's 25-mile-per-hour …
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GarageRock
7:31 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Instead of bickering about personal issues like speeding and the lack of sidewalks, how about addressing the problem that caused this accident: the many unrepaired potholes around town?! The police obviously know where they all are, so why are they left unfilled? This particular one is right behind the CVS shopping center...want to bet it's still there this weekend? Woodland Road is littered with… more ›