Posts Tagged ‘ Traffic ’

Party smart, folks. Police forces across the state are conducting a coordinated crackdown on drunk driving through Labor Day. The state Division of Highway Traffic Safety has doled out grants of $4,400 each to 187 police departments–including those of several towns surrounding Verona–so they can step up DWI arrests. This is a repeat of...
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You probably know by know that Verona’s main thoroughfare can be a bit dicey at times. Bloomfield Avenue gets a lot of cars and, as in all towns, there’s not a lot of room between street-side parking and the traffic. Kevin Toscano was in an accident on Bloomfield Avenue this weekend and sent us...
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Oooops. That’s about all you can say about a story in yesterday’s Star Ledger. The paper reported that a 14-year-old girl from Verona took her mother’s car this past Saturday and drove it out onto Route 46, where she got into a pre-dawn crash. Not much in the way of details, but you can...
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Essex County has installed 417 electronic devices on county roads in Livingston, Millburn and West Orange to prevent deer from wandering onto roadways and causing accidents. The so-called Deer Deter devices emit a high frequency noise to scare deer away from the traffic. Sensors in the devices are activated by vehicle headlights. Verona’s town...
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This torn-up section of  sidewalk on Lakeside near Hillside may mean some short-term inconvenience for pedestrians. But it will soon be good news: The location of a pedestrian-activated traffic signal to help those trying to cross Lakeside, which Councilman Jay Sniatkowski has compared to a very dangerous game of chicken. (The town is “close”...
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A few years back, environmentalists ran an energy efficiency campaign under the slogan “Change A Light, Change The World”. Essex County has begun to change the lights at 275 locations throughout the county and you’ll soon see the difference in Verona. The county recently got a $2.2 million grant from the federal government to...
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Bloomfield Avenue is one long traffic jam this Tuesday morning in our end of Essex County. It seems that any utility or contractor that needs access to anything under the roadway is trying to get that access now before the new paving goes on top. So find an alternative to get from east or...
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Stay off Bloomfield Avenue for the next three nights if at all possible: Verona’s main east-west artery is being repaved. The Verona Police Department says the roadwork will run from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. You can’t park on Bloomfield while the work is going on, and traffic is being narrowed to one lane...
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If you don’t have kids at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School or didn’t get the Global Connect call, you may want to know that the Verona Police are not happy with the traffic in front of the school at dismissal time. The police and the school are reminding motorists that they may not double park...
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Scott T. Rumana, one of the two New Jersey state assemblymen for our area, as signed on as one of the co-sponsors of a bill to repeal the legislation known as “Kyleigh’s Law.” The law, which came into effect on May 1, requires drivers under age 21 to display a special red reflecting decal...
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