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On the city website there is a press release and RFP for a citywide traffic circulation study.

The press release is here - City Will Create a Transportation Master Plan

and the RFP is here - Circulation Element of the Jersey City Master Plan

Do not know if a Steering Committee of stakeholders has been formed to oversee the study as was done for the prior Regional Waterfront Access And Downtown Circulation Study and have not yet read through the RFP to see if comprehensive....

A citywide circulation study has been called for and is certainly needed.

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loucheNJ wrote: What does "along the Sixth Street Embankment" mean - at ground level using the grassy area along 6th or building an elevated light rail on the embankment? I tried to open the study but only get half pages - perhaps there is a clearer explanation there.
I just finished reviewing the entire 184 pages, focusing mainly on any mention of "light rail" and "embankment" in the study. As the "Table 7-20: Scores and Rankings of Transit Projects" below shows, the "Bergen Arches/6th Street Embankment Mass Transit Options" ranks last place as choice of transit options, 17th out of 17 "proposed projects" with the lowest points out of 1000, being only 574. It also ranks the highest in cost at over $100 million to build! So even within this report it is the least favored proposal. Apparently, like many of our public officials Mayor Healy either didn't read the report (most likely) or doesn't care what it says (you decide). Quote:
5.3.2 Bergen Arches/6th Street Embankment Mass Transit Options (pg 99 of 184) This alternative assumes the construction of a Light Rail Transit (LRT) line or a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line along the abandoned Bergen Arches rail ROW parallel to NJ Route 139. Although the precise alignment of the system is not yet determined, it would presumably connect the study area with the Secaucus Transfer Station. This concept would allow the development of intercept parking at the Secaucus Transfer Station and the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
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JERSEY CITY REGIONAL WATERFRONT ACCESS AND DOWNTOWN CIRCULATION STUDY Table 7-20: Scores and Rankings of Transit Projects (*BrightMoment NOTE*: The table below does not include 8 parts of the grid which focus on: "Time Frame-Points","Ped and Bicycle Accessibility", "Ped and Vehicular Safety", "Construction and Env. Impacts", "Access to Study Area", "AM Peak - Regional AM Peak", "Local PM Peak - Regional PM Peak", due to size of original grid. Click this url for full grid: Table 7-20: Scores and Rankings of Transit Projects) JERSEY CITY REGIONAL WATERFRONT ACCESS AND DOWNTOWN CIRCULATION STUDY

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up to the draft final report, Light Rail on the Embankment was not highly rated due to cost and redundancy. This is the mayor's smokescreen. NJ Transit was livid when this came up during the study.

I will comment more after seeing the actual final report.

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What does "along the Sixth Street Embankment" mean - at ground level using the grassy area along 6th or building an elevated light rail on the embankment?

I tried to open the study but only get half pages - perhaps there is a clearer explanation there.

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What does "along the Sixth Street Embankment" mean - at ground level using the grassy area along 6th or building an elevated light rail on the embankment?

I tried to open the study but only get half pages - perhaps there is a clearer explanation there.

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Downtown forecast: Traffic hell

Saturday, July 14, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A study commissioned by Jersey City has concluded that by the year 2020 traffic in the Downtown area will reach the full capacity of the current roadway system.

The $176,00 federally funded "Jersey City Regional Waterfront and Downtown Circulation Study," 11/2 years in the works, was undertaken in order to come up with solutions to the increasing crowding on city streets.

To deal with this impending gridlock, the study's consultant, Stantec, makes several recommendations, both large - extending the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail System along the Sixth Street Embankment through the Bergen Arches into Secaucus - and small - changing the timing of traffic signals to speed traffic flow.

"As the fastest-growing city in the state, it is imperative that we look at all options available in alleviating the tremendous congestion in the Downtown area," said Mayor Jerramiah Healy.

The price tag for all the recommendations comes to well over $300 million. The mayor and City Council will review the recommendations and set priorities, city officials said. City Planning Director Bob Cotter said funding for the projects is expected to come from the federal government.

The most controversial proposal is to extend Jersey Avenue from where it currently ends, just behind the Jersey City Medical Center, through Liberty State Park to Audrey Zapp Drive.

"Our main concern is a Jersey Avenue road would be a magnet for rush-hour commuters . diminish the peaceful experience for people who come to the park," said Sam Pesin, president of the Friends of Liberty State Park.

Naomi Hsu, a city planner, said she doubted the two-way, two-lane road with bicycle paths would become a rush-hour thoroughfare, since a light rail crossing of Jersey Avenue would naturally slow traffic and discourage commuters from using that route.

The study also recommends building a ramp across Montgomery Street, at the Christopher Columbus Drive exit of the Turnpike, as well as building an 11th Street viaduct exit from the Turnpike that would lead Downtown.

The full study can be found at www.downtownjcras.com

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Below is the .pdf of the HPNA letter submitted today into public record in response to the Draft Report of the Jersey City Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study. For more information on this study and the four proposed concept plans, please visit http://www.downtownjcras.com .

Special thanks to Jon Gellman for attending the Tuesday morning Steering Committee city meetings regarding this issue, and to all community members who have spoken out against the proposed 11th Street Viaduct that threatens our neighborhood.

Hope to see everyone at tomorrow's annual June festival in Hamilton Park!
- Jen Greely
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Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association
Est. 1977

June 8, 2007
Re: Jersey City Regional Waterfront Access And Downtown Circulation Study

To Whom It May Concern:

For the past 30 years, the Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association (HPNA) has been active in community affairs affecting the Hamilton Park neighborhood of Downtown Jersey City. The Hamilton Park neighborhood is bounded by Marin Boulevard to the east, Division Street to the west, 12th Street to the north, and 6th street to the south. With
around 100 dues-paying members and well-attended monthly public meetings, the HPNA takes seriously its role as a community sounding board and activist group for local issues.

As such, the HPNA participated in the 2007 meetings of the Steering Committee for the Jersey City Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study. It is extremely unfortunate that these meetings were held at 8:30 am on weekday mornings, making it very difficult for the HPNA to attend more meetings. As it was, our single representative had to take personal time from work in order to be briefed on these very important issues. The following summarizes concerns raised by residents of the Hamilton Park neighborhood as well as the unanimous consensus reached by voting dues-paying members of the HPNA at our May General Membership meeting.

Concept 1: Jersey Avenue Extension to Audrey Zapp Drive

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association supports the construction of an emergency vehicle-access single lane road with bicycle access between Liberty State Park and Jersey Avenue. We strongly oppose the construction of a two-lane general traffic road.

Building the Jersey Avenue Extension would permit yet more cars to enter Downtown Jersey City at a particularly vulnerable location. Jersey Avenue and Grand Street is a
highly trafficked intersection for children traveling to and from two schools as well as a primary hospital for Jersey City. The flawed scoring model in the Draft Report does not
adequately provide for safety concerns of pedestrian schoolchildren making their way to class or emergency vehicles making their way to the hospital at the same time as the a.m. rush traffic period.

In addition, the construction of a Jersey Avenue Extension general access road would permit commuters to exit the New Jersey Turnpike and cut through Liberty State Park as
an attempted shortcut before reaching the Grand Street Exit, disrupting the peaceful nature of the open green space that is our local treasure in Liberty State Park. It would also permit commuters in cars to attempt access to the Holland Tunnel or Hoboken through the small, local streets of several historic districts. Already there are unsafe levels of commuter traffic along the historic streets of Erie and Monmouth, to which the Jersey Avenue Extension would undoubtedly worsen.

Concept 2: Center/Merseles Structure over Montgomery Street

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association supports the construction of this revised Christopher Columbus exit off the New Jersey Turnpike. This structure would make for a safer exit from the Turnpike by avoiding cross-traffic and pedestrian traffic at Montgomery Street. We encourage planners to consider this Concept and in doing so, make every effort to maintain a safe pedestrian environment with alternative pedestrian means for those traveling on foot and by bicycle.

Concept 3: Merseles/Wilson/Aetna Street Extensions

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association opposes Concept 3. Although it might facilitate traffic flow in those few blocks, the additional traffic burden on neighboring streets that are not designed to support such congestion is detrimental to the overall community.

Concept 4: 11th Street Viaduct

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association vehemently opposes the construction of an elevated viaduct along 11th Street. This elevated highway would purportedly allow direct
access for cars exiting the New Jersey Turnpike to the Newport waterfront area of Jersey City in an effort to decrease congestion on other local streets. In doing so, it would also introduce an elevated highway to a quiet, historic neighborhood of brownstone-lined streets surrounding an historic park. The neighborhood would bear no direct benefit, yet would bear all the burden of having a highway cut through its quiet streets. Air quality and noise issues notwithstanding, the aesthetic disharmony introduced by constructing a highway through a 140-year old historic neighborhood is of grave concern.

Furthermore, this elevated viaduct would cut directly over the corner of Enos Jones Park on Brunswick Avenue. This infringes not only on the limited amount of green space available to Downtown Jersey City residents, but also raises safety concerns related to litter and exhaust fumes polluting the open space in and around the park itself. Residents of new-construction buildings along 10th Street also face the reality of having their views altered to look out on a highway passing directly outside their windows. Unfortunately, the model used for scoring the proposed traffic projects in the Draft Report does not address these vital quality of life issues at all. This flawed scoring model leads to an unbalanced evaluation score that does not reflect the burden borne by the Hamilton Park neighborhood should the 11th Street Viaduct become a reality.

At a time when neighboring metropolitan areas such as New York City are exploring ways of reducing vehicle congestion through innovative means such as congestion-use taxes and improved or extended public transportation, it is sad and counter-intuitive to build something as extensive as an elevated viaduct through an historic neighborhood to commuters in private vehicles. The Newport Waterfront area is already served by several means of public transportation, including a PATH station, a
New Jersey Transit Light Rail stop, ferry service, and numerous bus lines. Public funds should be spent on improving these existing modes of public transportation into an already thriving business community, not constructing an elevated viaduct for additional commuter traffic that ultimately threatens the safety and harmony of a quaint historic district of Downtown Jersey City.

Additional Thoughts

In addition to the aforementioned Concepts, the Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association supports the extended use and construction of bicycle lanes and improved pedestrian traffic signals, in addition to smart-growth plans for parking ratios throughout the Downtown area.

In order to curb the tide of commuter vehicle traffic speeding through the historic districts we also encourage planners to explore the possibility of alternate one-way sets of blocks on streets that are heavily traveled at high speeds. This method of having three or four blocks designated one-way north, then or four blocks designated one-way south along the same street (such as Monmouth Street, Coles Street, or Erie Street, all of which have serious problems with excessive commuter traffic) has been implemented in neighboring Hoboken with great success. It frustrates commuters trying to snake through downtown in order to avoid Holland Tunnel traffic and slows the flow of regular traffic through the historic neighborhoods, making it safer for drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians.

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association and extended Hamilton Park community appreciates your consideration of our neighborhood views. We look forward to the opportunity to work further on helping to develop these plans in the coming years.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Z. Greely
President, Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association
Email: hpnajc@gmail.com
Website: www.hamiltonpark.org
Blog: http://hamiltonpark.blogspot.com


To the HPNA thoughts I'd add:

The 11th Street viaduct is a white elephant. Cars on the turnpike can see the back-up. If the back-up is past the proposed the 11th street exit, they're going to get off at Montgomery anyway. If it's not, there's little benefit between getting off at new viaduct against the existing Jersey Ave exit.

There also needs to be the following trafiic calming measures:
1. Clear "YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS" signs, road markings, and strips at all intersections near parks, churches and schools. Willow Ave in Hoboken is a great example that should be copied.
2. Real traffic police presence on the "cut-throughs" used during peak hours. I'd like to see real fines handed out on streets from Manila thru Brunswick during school hours - there are far too many speeders and dangerous drivers cutting through the district.

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Below is the .pdf of the HPNA letter submitted today into public record in response to the Draft Report of the Jersey City Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study. For more information on this study and the four proposed concept plans, please visit http://www.downtownjcras.com .

Special thanks to Jon Gellman for attending the Tuesday morning Steering Committee city meetings regarding this issue, and to all community members who have spoken out against the proposed 11th Street Viaduct that threatens our neighborhood.

Hope to see everyone at tomorrow's annual June festival in Hamilton Park!
- Jen Greely
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Est. 1977

June 8, 2007
Re: Jersey City Regional Waterfront Access And Downtown Circulation Study

To Whom It May Concern:

For the past 30 years, the Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association (HPNA) has been active in community affairs affecting the Hamilton Park neighborhood of Downtown Jersey City. The Hamilton Park neighborhood is bounded by Marin Boulevard to the east, Division Street to the west, 12th Street to the north, and 6th street to the south. With
around 100 dues-paying members and well-attended monthly public meetings, the HPNA takes seriously its role as a community sounding board and activist group for local issues.

As such, the HPNA participated in the 2007 meetings of the Steering Committee for the Jersey City Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study. It is extremely unfortunate that these meetings were held at 8:30 am on weekday mornings, making it very difficult for the HPNA to attend more meetings. As it was, our single representative had to take personal time from work in order to be briefed on these very important issues. The following summarizes concerns raised by residents of the Hamilton Park neighborhood as well as the unanimous consensus reached by voting dues-paying members of the HPNA at our May General Membership meeting.

Concept 1: Jersey Avenue Extension to Audrey Zapp Drive

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association supports the construction of an emergency vehicle-access single lane road with bicycle access between Liberty State Park and Jersey Avenue. We strongly oppose the construction of a two-lane general traffic road.

Building the Jersey Avenue Extension would permit yet more cars to enter Downtown Jersey City at a particularly vulnerable location. Jersey Avenue and Grand Street is a
highly trafficked intersection for children traveling to and from two schools as well as a primary hospital for Jersey City. The flawed scoring model in the Draft Report does not
adequately provide for safety concerns of pedestrian schoolchildren making their way to class or emergency vehicles making their way to the hospital at the same time as the a.m. rush traffic period.

In addition, the construction of a Jersey Avenue Extension general access road would permit commuters to exit the New Jersey Turnpike and cut through Liberty State Park as
an attempted shortcut before reaching the Grand Street Exit, disrupting the peaceful nature of the open green space that is our local treasure in Liberty State Park. It would also permit commuters in cars to attempt access to the Holland Tunnel or Hoboken through the small, local streets of several historic districts. Already there are unsafe levels of commuter traffic along the historic streets of Erie and Monmouth, to which the Jersey Avenue Extension would undoubtedly worsen.

Concept 2: Center/Merseles Structure over Montgomery Street

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association supports the construction of this revised Christopher Columbus exit off the New Jersey Turnpike. This structure would make for a safer exit from the Turnpike by avoiding cross-traffic and pedestrian traffic at Montgomery Street. We encourage planners to consider this Concept and in doing so, make every effort to maintain a safe pedestrian environment with alternative pedestrian means for those traveling on foot and by bicycle.

Concept 3: Merseles/Wilson/Aetna Street Extensions

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association opposes Concept 3. Although it might facilitate traffic flow in those few blocks, the additional traffic burden on neighboring streets that are not designed to support such congestion is detrimental to the overall community.

Concept 4: 11th Street Viaduct

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association vehemently opposes the construction of an elevated viaduct along 11th Street. This elevated highway would purportedly allow direct
access for cars exiting the New Jersey Turnpike to the Newport waterfront area of Jersey City in an effort to decrease congestion on other local streets. In doing so, it would also introduce an elevated highway to a quiet, historic neighborhood of brownstone-lined streets surrounding an historic park. The neighborhood would bear no direct benefit, yet would bear all the burden of having a highway cut through its quiet streets. Air quality and noise issues notwithstanding, the aesthetic disharmony introduced by constructing a highway through a 140-year old historic neighborhood is of grave concern.

Furthermore, this elevated viaduct would cut directly over the corner of Enos Jones Park on Brunswick Avenue. This infringes not only on the limited amount of green space available to Downtown Jersey City residents, but also raises safety concerns related to litter and exhaust fumes polluting the open space in and around the park itself. Residents of new-construction buildings along 10th Street also face the reality of having their views altered to look out on a highway passing directly outside their windows. Unfortunately, the model used for scoring the proposed traffic projects in the Draft Report does not address these vital quality of life issues at all. This flawed scoring model leads to an unbalanced evaluation score that does not reflect the burden borne by the Hamilton Park neighborhood should the 11th Street Viaduct become a reality.

At a time when neighboring metropolitan areas such as New York City are exploring ways of reducing vehicle congestion through innovative means such as congestion-use taxes and improved or extended public transportation, it is sad and counter-intuitive to build something as extensive as an elevated viaduct through an historic neighborhood to commuters in private vehicles. The Newport Waterfront area is already served by several means of public transportation, including a PATH station, a
New Jersey Transit Light Rail stop, ferry service, and numerous bus lines. Public funds should be spent on improving these existing modes of public transportation into an already thriving business community, not constructing an elevated viaduct for additional commuter traffic that ultimately threatens the safety and harmony of a quaint historic district of Downtown Jersey City.

Additional Thoughts

In addition to the aforementioned Concepts, the Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association supports the extended use and construction of bicycle lanes and improved pedestrian traffic signals, in addition to smart-growth plans for parking ratios throughout the Downtown area.

In order to curb the tide of commuter vehicle traffic speeding through the historic districts we also encourage planners to explore the possibility of alternate one-way sets of blocks on streets that are heavily traveled at high speeds. This method of having three or four blocks designated one-way north, then or four blocks designated one-way south along the same street (such as Monmouth Street, Coles Street, or Erie Street, all of which have serious problems with excessive commuter traffic) has been implemented in neighboring Hoboken with great success. It frustrates commuters trying to snake through downtown in order to avoid Holland Tunnel traffic and slows the flow of regular traffic through the historic neighborhoods, making it safer for drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians.

The Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association and extended Hamilton Park community appreciates your consideration of our neighborhood views. We look forward to the opportunity to work further on helping to develop these plans in the coming years.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Z. Greely
President, Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association
Email: hpnajc@gmail.com
Website: www.hamiltonpark.org
Blog: http://hamiltonpark.blogspot.com

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From: Mia Scanga [talkingpolitics@comcast.net]
Date: Wed 5/30/07 6:02 AM

Public comment period on the Downtown Traffic Study

At the May 24 public meeting, the consultant team presented their recommendations on projects that address projected deficiencies in the transportation network (including roadway, transit, and bike/ped) that provides access to the downtown Jersey City area, as well as in the multi-modal transportation network within downtown Jersey City.

The PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD has been EXTENDED until Friday, June 8 at 5 PM for the Jersey City Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study.

You may submit written comments on the DRAFT Technical Memorandum 2 via e-mail or fax. The final report for the study, which will consist of an Executive Summary, Technical Memos 1 and 2, and Appendices, will be available by July 2007. ======================

Naomi Hsu Senior Transportation Planner, Jersey City Division of City Planning, 30 Montgomery Street, Suite 1400 Jersey City, NJ 07302 T: 201.547.5021 / F: 201.547.4323 / hsun@jcnj.org

For more information, please visit the study's website: http://www.downtownjcras.com.

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The FOURTH PUBLIC MEETING for the Jersey City Division of City Planning's Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study


Location Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 280 Grove Street

Contact Naomi Hsu HsuN@jcnj.org
Description Dear Interested Party,

The FOURTH PUBLIC MEETING for the Jersey City Division of City Planning's Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study will be held on Thursday, May 24 at 6 PM. The meeting will be in Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 280 Grove Street.

At the May 24 public meeting, the consultant team will present their recommendations on projects that address projected deficiencies in the transportation network (including roadway, transit, and bike/ped) that provides access to the downtown Jersey City area, as well as in the multi-modal transportation network within downtown Jersey City.

The flier advertising the public meeting is available at:
http://www.hamiltonpark.org/PDFS/may_ ... _public_meeting_trans.pdf

Please feel free to pass the flier along to anyone who may be interested in attending the public meeting.

For more information, please visit the study website: www.downtownjcras.com.

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Option 4 takes people much further north than many of them need to go. Washington Street in Newport is already a mess. I cannot imagine adding more traffic to it.


Option 4 looks like a bit of a white elephant. If the traffic isn't backed-up at the Holland tunnel, there's little difference between this and taking the existing Jersey Ave exit from the ramp. If the traffic is backed-up, people will see the back-up and take the Montgomery exit. Might be better off spending the money on improving and enforcing the right-turn lanes on the existing ramp.

BTW the options are shown under:
http://downtownjcras.com/

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Where can we find the details to all the options?

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Since I believe the main goal of this study is create the most efficient way to get large numbers of vehicles to the waterfront, I believe Option 2 is the one we want.

Option 3 dumps the traffic into Bergen-Lafayette. Dumping traffic into the middle of a growing residential neighborhood just doesn't seem logical.

Option 4 takes people much further north than many of them need to go. Washington Street in Newport is already a mess. I cannot imagine adding more traffic to it.

This leaves us with Options 1 and 2. Both would get the traffic to roughly the same area, but one would have much less of a negative impact than the other.

Option 2 gets people to Columbus Blvd which is large enough to handle greater volumes of traffic. Christopher Columbus Drive is a 6 lane road, and along with Greene Street, which was specifically redesigned and widened to handle volumes of traffic to the waterfront, would be a better artery coming off of the Christopher Columbus exit of the Turnpike (redesigning the exit, so that it goes over the street traffic on Centre between Grand and Montgomery, and exits onto CC Drive).

Option 1 (a bridge over the Morris Canal on Jersey Ave) would dump traffic on streets that do not have the capacity to handle large volumes of traffic (as does Columbus). Because of the narrower streets and the larger number of traffic lights, traffic is far more likely to get snarled, thus causing back ups. This goes against the goal of efficiency that this study looks to create.

Option 2 is child friendly. If the city chooses Option 1 it would affect 2500+ school children - many of whom already suffer from asthma, walking to and from school during rush hour. Schools include PS 3/MS4, Learning Community Charter School, the Boys and Girls Club, OLC, St. Peter's Prep, PS 16, Kenmare High School at the York Street Project. These are not just our own children, but children from every walk of life from every section of Jersey City.

Option 2 takes safety into account. Option 1 would bring large volumes of traffic past the Jersey City Medical Center: Increased traffic would impact ambulances and other medical center traffic. Option 1 would also direct traffic past a busy Fire House (Engine Company 2): Increased traffic passing the firehouse on Grand at Van Vorst complicates traffic patterns when the fire engine exits and reenters the station.

Option 2 is the clearer option for all drivers. Grand Street is not a truck route and having traffic exit onto and/or cross Grand Street would only likely confuse truckers and cause undue stress on historic buildings in Van Vorst as these trucks would have to pass through this neighborhood to reach Columbus (the designated truck route).

Option 2 is the most cost efficient. Although I recognize that in financial terms, Option 2 costs slightly more money upfront, the cost of quality of life and safety must be factored in. Additionally, the long term negative affect on streets that were not designed to handle large volumes of traffic (as well as potential property damage to historic structures) could end up costing far more in the long run. I believe that choosing Option 1 because it appears to be more cost effective up front is short term thinking that will have much longer term financial affects that haven't even been considered.

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What is in store for downtown residents in the future? Please attend this meeting.

The following is from the final draft Summary and Next steps:

The traffic modeling does indicate that virtually all of the roadway concepts will have a detrimental effect on traffic flow on the local streets during the PM peak period. These concepts all have the effect of transferring vehicles from the regional routes to the local routes without adding major additional capacity to the local street system.

The traffic model indicates that this effect will be exacerbated as the concepts are combined. The roadway combination with one of the least detrimental impacts to both local traffic flow and overall traffic flow is the combination of Concepts 3 and 4. This combination also provides maximum access to developable land in the south end of the study area.

.......Possible solutions to the potential gridlock scenario are the use of the parking management regulations to limit the demand into the study area, or the introduction of a congestion fee for vehicles that enter the study area during the morning peak period.




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The FOURTH PUBLIC MEETING for the Jersey City Division of City Planning's Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study will be held on Thursday, May 24 at 6 PM. The meeting will be in Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 280 Grove Street.

At the May 24 public meeting, the consultant team will present their recommendations on projects that address projected deficiencies in the transportation network (including roadway, transit, and bike/ped) that provides access to the downtown Jersey City area, as well as in the multi-modal transportation network within downtown Jersey City.

Please view the Public Meeting Flier and distribute to anyone who may be interested in attending.

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Has the study considered the impact of the NY congestion charge on demand for public transport and parking in downtown JC? If not, why not?

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Could it be expected that the 'twisted sisters' of Newport will attend and be a pain in the ass?

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The FOURTH PUBLIC MEETING for the Jersey City Division of City Planning's Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study will be held on Thursday, May 24 at 6 PM. The meeting will be in Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 280 Grove Street.

At the May 24 public meeting, the consultant team will present their recommendations on projects that address projected deficiencies in the transportation network (including roadway, transit, and bike/ped) that provides access to the downtown Jersey City area, as well as in the multi-modal transportation network within downtown Jersey City.

Please view the Public Meeting Flier and distribute to anyone who may be interested in attending.

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This would be a good opportunity to meet Newport's 'Madalyn Murray O?Hair's' equivalent in popularity.

You're just the best Sonia - keep up the great work!

Madalyn has a great book out.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/ ... 42-734X.00083?cookieSet=1

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Just an FYI.

The next PUBLIC MEETING for the Jersey City Regional Waterfront Access and Downtown Circulation Study will be on Thursday, MARCH 1 at 6 PM. The public meeting will be held at City Hall, 280 Grove Street, in the Council Chambers on the second floor.

Hope this is helpful
Steve

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