Meghan Grant , Staff Writer5:51 p.m. ET April 17, 2017
Rutherford will receive $368,000 and Ridgewood $400,000 in funding intended to make bicycling and walking to school safer for local children. The Department of Transportation announced its Safe Routes to School grant recipients last week.
Intended to encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school as a transportation alternative, the grants program facilitates the planning, development and implementation of projects that improve safety, reduce traffic and improve air quality through decreased fuel consumption around schools.
That is awesome….now who knows what the project will be? I pray it is not the plan to add a bike lane on Franklin…sidewalks on Clinton?
The school crossing at Linwood towards BF NEEDS an additional Crossing Guard
during rush hours morning and afternoon.Thats an intersection
that needs a wider right turning lane from BF street up Linwood towards town.Left turns there are also very tight. That corner needs a review..
Current crossing Guard does a great job but is outgunned..
These Safe Routes grants probably require bike lanes to be installed when possible, disrupting motor vehicle traffic patterns. They are probably part of the so-called “traffic slowing” push to which Ridgewood residents should be distinctly allergic at this point in our history. More central planning and “progressive” social engineering is definitely NOT what we need.
Strings must be attached to these grants. Depending on what they are, we should be leery about using even one penny of the granted funds.
Ridgewood
The village applied to the state seeking funding for sidewalk installation, intersection improvements and School Zone Warning signs, said Village Manager Heather Mailander. The signs will have programmable speed awareness capabilities. She would not comment further saying it “premature” to detail exactly how the $400,000 grant would be used,
“We have not yet received a letter from NJDOT indicating what items in our grant proposal are being funded,” said Mailander. “Once the grant funding breakdown has been received, the village council will discuss it at a work session so that they can indicate their approval with moving forward with the projects funded by the grant.”
A NJDOT spokesperson deferred comment on what projects Ridgewood had applied for to the village.
Deputy Mayor Michael Sedon, council rep and Chair of the Ridgewood Green Advisory Committee, said Ridgewood appreciates the award.
“As the village is continually reviewing safety procedures to and around the schools in our community, this funding will go a long way in helping us achieve our goals,” said Sedon.
The ‘grants’ are just legal ways of redirecting taxpayer money to the pockets of political supporters. Expect nothing.
Ridgewood is already spending the money..
I saw road crews ripping up a 10′ wide section of roadway on Fairfield Ave. from Glen to Race Track road.
From corner to corner, it appears they are replacing the asphalt with cement so it appears a continual cement sidewalk.
I really don’t understand why. There are already sidewalks. There is no traffic through these side streets.
They did this a few years ago on Fairfield just south of the school.
Ridgewood received grants some years ago and built sidewalks on Northern from Meadowbrook to Linwood.
Now that made sense.
MORE SOCIAL ENGINEERING.
All part of AGENDA 21 — read up on it folks.
Agenda 21 Course
Grants with nice sounding names to gain your acceptance so your freedoms are reduced and your behavior controlled.
Lesson 6: Grants are Used as a Major Tool to Implement Agenda 21
https://www.agenda21course.com/lesson-6-grants-are-used-as-a-major-tool-to-implement-agenda-21/
From NJDOT – Safe Routes to School
https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/business/localaid/srts.shtm
The federal-aid SRTS program provides federal-aid highway funds to State Departments of Transportation. The main objectives of the program are:
to enable and encourage children in grades K-8, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school;
to make bicycling and walking to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative, thereby encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle from an early age; and,
to facilitate the planning, development and implementation of projects and activities that will improve safety and reduce traffic, fuel consumption and air pollution in the vicinity of schools.
“reduce traffic, fuel consumption and air pollution”
equals anti motor vehicle
equals Bike Lanes
equals “Traffic calming” (aka traffic jams, aka traffic frustration so you take alternate route or better yet use public transportation
equals Behavior modification
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all of these grants are driven by the agenda to implement the Agenda 21 “utopian vision” – no cars, pack and stack housing (their term) walk to home, work, market, entertainment. (like living in retirement communities (or high cost mental institutions).
the utopian vision drives the grant – the “named benefit” (in this case safe passage to school) is just the MEANS to implement their goals.
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Agree with 112 – – we’d be better off just spending money to stop the over development ignited by the Aronson regime.
Guess what 2:51? You already live in a high cost mental institution…Welcome to paradise!
what bull shit, and they all just got screwed over. the town cut all there pay, real nice.