It’s part of a week long tragic study.

A week? Adding a roundabout to two of the most busiest intersections? Newark ave is also two blocks away. Weekends will be even worse.

Can someone advise where we can complain about this?

This pilot project is intended to find ways to improve safety on a street with two schools and many families with children. Perhaps people should consider the safety of others over their own convenience. There are plenty of other ways for people to access the highways you mention without driving down a residential street.

I have been living here for 28 years. It’s not about convenience - it’s about making sense. You realize that people park up until the corner on Liberty Ave right? Two schools? Last time I checked the only one here is on Skillman. The other other way to get the 1&9 or Pulaski is via Kennedy but less let’s clog up Kennedy so individuals coming down from the heights can be stuck while individuals are trying to get to 1&9. You sound like someone not from the area - you should come out and see what the local residents have been dealing with. But sure, “convenience”.

If you’re so concerned with safety, put a traffic light.

Plenty of other ways? Enlighten me

Can the next pilot project address parking? Something along the lines of North Bergen or Hoboken? I’m sure residents would welcome it instead of having a pot at the intersection.

Loving the roundabouts!!!

Hi sfulop - if you’re actually the mayor of JC, can you kindly address parking on the street and enforce permit parking? Maybe do what Hoboken and North Bergen do where one side is residents only? In addition, can you honestly reconsider these roundabouts? It’s making traffic even worse. People aren’t even stopping at the corners when coming up from Tonnelle or down from Kennedy.

I like the roundabouts. This road is residential and needs traffic calming measures. It is very dangerous to cross these two intersections and the roundabouts will stop cars from driving the wrong way (which is very common) to beat the light. I also enjoy that this compliant is about future traffic that MAY happen. Why not give the city a chance to try this and complaint AFTER there is a real issue that arrises.

You sound like somebody who doesn’t live on this actual block and uses it as a cut through to avoid traffic elsewhere. I, on the other hand, live on this block. You talk about making sense; does it make sense for there to be near daily head-on collisions because people are too impatient to queue for traffic lights and instead choose to speed down the wrong side of the road? Does it make sense that parents bringing their children to the two schools (one at St Pauls and Skillman, the other at St Pauls and Kennedy) can’t cross the street, even after the city put flashing lights, because many people don’t follow NJ law that requires drivers to stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk?

The planter doesn’t even take away the ability for traffic to travel down the street, it just slows people down approaching the intersection where people cross, makes it harder for people to drive on the wrong side of the road, and makes it harder for trucks to use the street illegally.

If you don’t like it, use Tonnele Circle from Kennedy, Newark Ave, Sip Ave, Manhattan Ave, etc…

I agree with everything LlamaLlama said.

another school will be in the new building across saint pauls!

LlamaLlama, sit outside and you’ll notice it’s making traffic worse.

For the “local resident,” I live here. You prob moved here a handful years ago while I’ve been here for 28 years (said it in my previous post). We can have an in person conversation if you would like to talk this but won’t reply to you any further.

Llama llama, totally agreed! As someone who lives in this neighborhood, and every day faces nearly getting mowed over by cars cutting through and/or racing to the light (even with a stroller in tow), I’m in favor of any measure to make this neighborhood safer for all of us on foot, especially the school children who attend the school on the corner. If this is an inconvenience to those using our neighborhood to cut through, well then, go around.

One day in and I’ve already noticed how much the roundabouts have slowed down all the speed racers. Really appreciate the folks from the city who are paying attention to what we’re struggling with here, thank you!!

How long a person has lived here has no bearing on their right to live on a safe street.

Happy to speak in person if you’d prefer.

I am just curious as to what inconvenience this is causing the 28 year resident.? I prefer safety over less traffic

Hi Tim - congestion and getting in and out of the block. I’m all for addressing an issue but not by creating other issues.

Anonymous user, sure - let me know when and where. Can be somewhere completely public for the safety of both. Thanks.

Love this pilot project! Not only do I want to see it be made permanent but hope we do this elsewhere too. These are residential streets that are in desperate need traffic calming measures. The people of the neighborhood deserve to feel safe crossing their streets.

More, please.

It's a disaster. Our neighborhood, at the corner of St. Paul's and Tonnele, is now hemmed in by traffic from the Wittpenn Bridge, north and southbound Tonnele Ave -- which for years has backed up in both directions most of the day -- and no way to get out of here. Why can't the city just enforce the truck ban on St. Paul's, instead of punishing the whole neighborhood?

All in favor of such pilots. I couldn’t care less if people need to take more time to back out of their driveway. I’m thankful that parents and their children feel safer crossing the street now. More traffic calming measures throughout the residential streets of this area. Tired of speeding cars and giant trucks that don’t belong on our residential streets.

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This is a good thing. Keep it up, JC!
Sorry some ppl are mad about it (not really).

I have to agree with Moira; she’s a smart cookie. We have two kids of our own and I personally feel safer crossing the street now. I can only hope that the powers that be see this as a success and try this in more and more places. Our whole neighborhood could benefit.

I agree with JSQMKM! I wish they would just ensure a truck ban on saint pauls. Also the traffic circle just doesnt make sense because its not how traffic circles work its too small to be one! I wish they would ban all this crazy tru traffic that blocks up this residential neighborhood! the noise is crazy because of it now too :(

It would make sense to ensure that pedestrians are safe as well as children. Maybe a traffic light may help because what they’ve done right now is only making matters worse and doesn’t make sense.

I was almost hit today by a vehicle as they were trying to navigated and had their eyes on the side of the road to ensure they don’t hit a car instead of what’s in front of them.

The PDF is not an externally shared link, so can’t provide feedback. The hyperlink on the JCNJ site is also broken.

It's completely unfair to impose more traffic on an area -- St. Paul's and Tonnele -- that already has much more traffic than St. Paul's to JFK. Yes, I understand there are traffic issues on St. Paul's but they aren't the only ones, and they don't have the most traffic.
So now you are backing up traffic more on St. Paul's west of Tonnele -- already a disaster because of the Witt Pen; on Tonnele in both directions, where regularly traffic cannot clear the intersections before the lighr changes; and soon Van Winkle Ave., a short one-way street -- will bear the brunt of this.
Can't we start with adjusting the timing of the traffic signals to move traffic more efficiently, and station police on St. Paul's to keep the trucks off it? While we're at it, why can't we have a weight limit on trucks in the entire neighborhood? A big truck went down Dey St. a couple of months ago and hit three parked cars. And there really isn't enough room for big trucks to make the turn from Dey St. onto Senate and by the way, where are they going there anyway?
Newark Ave. between Tonnele and JFK is a disaster 18 hours a day and no one in the right mind would drive on it. So these "rotaries" are really limiting our ability to get out of the neighborhood, and presenting a public safety issue because of access for emergency vehicles.

This isn’t adding more traffic to the area. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works. Calming traffic on a street doesn’t somehow add more cars to an area. It may cause people to seek alternate routes but there is not more volume because of this project. In fact, projects like this have been shown to reduce overall volume in an area.

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Ridiculous to aver that there isn't more traffic on the adjacent streets. The vehicles that can't or won't get down St. Paul's because of the impediments are on our streets, increasing the traffic. Just walk down here if you don't believe me.

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With all due respect, while the questionnaire is a good idea, I don't think it covers the breadth of the problem. And I would also like to ask why the neighborhood didn't receive any official notice of this experiment. NOTHING WHATSOEVER.

JSQMKM (Registered User)
With all due respect, while the questionnaire is a good idea, I don't think it covers the breadth of the problem. And I would also like to ask why the neighborhood didn't receive any official notice of this experiment. NOTHING WHATSOEVER.

Hello everyone, this is a great discussion. If you want to keep this open, we can keep it open. Just note that this app is for reporting fixable issues. This is a pilot study which will become a permanent fix or be removed based off of the survey provided and other data collected by our engineers. There is no repair or fix for this issue and only the survey answer will be taken into account as a deciding factor. The conversation will not be monitored here. Thank you and please do fill out the survey. This will take into account the whole area, not just this short length of St. Pauls.

Althea -- can you tell me why the neighborhood wasn't notified in advance? It appears only the people on St. Paul's Ave. had advance notice of this.

Since this is just a week long project, just like any road closure, only the St. Paul's residents that would be immediately affected by the City closing down the street for installation and removal (this upcoming Tuesday) were notified.

Well, I reject that notion because the people who live on the streets surrounding St. Paul's are also greatly affected.

I wasn’t notified and I’m on St. Paul’s. What form of communication was sent?

A notice was placed at each residence on the street sections that would have complete closures for installation and removal, so not the entire length of St Pauls. If you are within that project range and you did not receive the notice, I am really sorry about that.

Notification was not given to St Pauls only because it was felt ONLY St Pauls would be affected, it was given ONLY to those that would need to move their cars or would need to get out of their street because it would be closed for a certain time period. Paving my street will greatly impact many blocks around me, but only my one block was given notice for my block being shut down so I would not be blocked from leaving my home and missing work. It was not a decision of who would be impacted, but who would need to move their cars for a full street shut down for installation and removal.

Round a bouts are being removed today.

And it is much quieter in the neighborhood.