EAST BRUNSWICK–The Township Council introduced an ordinance which, if adopted, will amend the municipal code reducing the speed limit at Cranbury Road and Evergreen Boulevard intersection.
Business Administrator Joseph Criscuolo said the reason for this speed limit reduction is for the continuation of bike paths.
“Cranbury Road is a county road and according to the state requirements and the county requirements on their roads, the speed limit will have to be lowered in order to make the changes, or add that bike lane to get us all the way up to [East Brunswick] High School,” Criscuolo said. “So it’s our intention is to keep widening the bike paths within the town.”
The council introduced and approved the ordinance amending the municipal code to reduce the speed limit on Cranbury Road from the northernmost Evergreen Boulevard intersection to Summerhill Road from 40 mph to 35 mph on Dec. 14 via video conference.
The second and final reading is scheduled for Dec. 28.
Once this gets adopted by the council and sent over to the county, Criscuolo said the township would then continue the bike lanes all the way up to the high school at 380 Cranbury Road so anyone would be able to bike from there to the recreation department building at 350 Dunhams Corner Road, and hopefully to the track.
“This is just a continuation of the bike lane project that the mayor and the council have been so gracious to fund and move forward with and we just want to get this path up to the high school,” Criscuolo said.
The ordinance will take effect 20 days after the final reading, adoption and publication according to law, according to the council agenda.
For more information, visit www.eastbrunswick.org/AgendaCenter.
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