County to Lower Speed Limit on Part of Bay Avenue
The limit will change from 35 mph to 30 mph between 34th and 24th streets.
The speed limit on Bay Avenue between 34th and 24th streets will change from 35 mph to 30 mph to increase safety on that heavily traveled stretch of Ocean City.
Ocean City Business Administrator Mike Dattilo told City Council on Thursday that the change had been confirmed by Cape May County, which oversees the route.
Fourth Ward Councilman Pete Guinosso said on Saturday that he anticipated the change to take place as soon as new signs could be placed.
Speed limits in front of the Ocean City Intermediate School near 18th Street will remain 25 mph during school hours.
In a related matter, Guinosso announced a public forum 7 p.m. March 6 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church to discuss traffic patterns and traffic safety in the same area.
Many citizens have complained that trucks coming into Ocean City at 34th Street are cutting through neighborhoods on Simpson and Haven avenues to avoid the traffic light at 34th Street and West Avenue.
Anybody is invited to attend the March 6 meeting.
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Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
30th St & Bay Ave, Ocean City, NJ
OC 4 Life
1:15 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Wish I had such idle problems to concern myself with.
Duffer
1:20 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Making it more of a speed trap than it already is......
Pete denDulk
2:04 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
There's a typo in the first sentence. They use the word "safety" when they should use "revenue".
Coral
3:40 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
If the City is so concerned about "Safety" why not monitor school buses going non stop through stop sign at 9th Street and Atlantic Avenue at 2:40 pm Monday to Friday
Karen Bolden
9:37 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
if this is true, you should report it to the police WHEN it happens. If children are on the bus when it goes through a stop street they are in danger and you should not just write about it on here but do something. Call the Police.
Upper/OC Native
3:46 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
If anything it should be raised to 40!!!!
Bob
4:15 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Yeah.... to 40
Duffer
4:26 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
http://www.speedtrap.org/city/7065/Ocean%20City&page=1
MrJazz
10:03 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
Being the only town I know that continues to move backward, this is undoubtedly in preparation for the return of horse-drawn buggies.
vicDufferBeachyFrankEleanor
5:37 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
Speed limits suck and so does traffic safety and making things safer sucks too especially when it means we cannot go fast in our automobeels, and tickets suck to because that raises revenue and that all goes to our overpaid lazy good for nothing city empolyees and and and and....and uhhhh, posting on the patch sucks....trucks dont suck especially in rezidencial neighboorhoods becasue they frighten kids and old people who should not be in the street anyways, and of course school buses suck because it makes the kids lazy and they wind up being lazy overpaid city workers and then we need traffic tickets to pay their enormous celeries.
Colonel
6:45 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
This sure is a critical issue for Ocean City especially in view of all that has occurred in the past six months. Don't you people have anything worthwhile to do. The cops in their "traffic enforcement" cars are licking their chops waiting to catch more unsuspecting drivers who are doing 32 in a 30 MPH zone. Great job. We really support your efforts. We need a sequester in Ocean City. Stop this craziness and don't put up any new signs. How many years now has this speed limit operated as 35 mph. The excuse given is absurd.
sick of smug know it all locals
7:45 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
vicDufferBeachyFrankEleanor a masterpiece if I ever saw one but really - sucks
Harold B.
5:44 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
I think some of you are missing the point on this one. Bay Avenue is a COUNTY road and is maintained by them. As the story states the County is changing the speed limit the City has nothing to do with it. And I seem to recall that last year there was an outcry from residents that live on Bay Ave. for the County to lower the speed limit! "Unsuspecting Drivers" ....is a funny statement to say the least. When I got stopped on Bay Ave. for going 50 mph in a 35 mph zone in the dead of winter in front of the airport, I knew the speed limit and regret going that fast but I certainly wasnt an unsuspecting driver. And BTW the traffic safety cop didnt lecture me or act like a jerk. He actually let me off with a $46 no point ticket and I dont know anyone special or have one of those get out of jail cards. So what exactly is an "unsuspecting" driver.......the speed limits are posted on the roads, cars have speedometers and towns have cops that enforce the law??? Seems more obvious than unknown.