FREEHOLD — Plans are in the works for a long-awaited traffic light to be installed at a busy intersection in Freehold Borough.
“The county is designing improvements to the intersection of Route 537 and Jackson Terrace and Jackson Street,” Monmouth County spokeswoman Laura Kirkpatrick said.
The county is proposing a full traffic light; a pedestrian crosswalk at the three approaches to the intersection; the relocation of an existing stone driveway which causes a fifth leg of the intersection; and the reconstruction of curbs, Kirkpatrick said.
“The design is subject to change. The county will have to review right-of-way issues,” she said.
It is anticipated that an advertisement for the construction of the project will be made in late 2016, according to Kirkpatrick.
“There are a lot of road and bridge projects going on in Monmouth County. They (county transportation officials) work through a lengthy list,” she said.
A number of projects took a back seat after tropical storm Irene struck New Jersey in 2011 and superstorm Sandy caused massive damage in 2012, she said.
The idea to construct a traffic light at Route 537, Jackson Street and Jackson Terrace dates back at least a decade, according to previous News Transcript articles.
The project was “stirred in a pot of priorities and it came to the top,” borough Business Administrator Joe Bellina said.