TOMS RIVER – A long-sought widening of Route 9 is slated to begin in the spring of 2022. It aims to alleviate congestion in several difficult intersections.
The plan encompasses a length of the state highway starting just north of Indian Head Road in Toms River to just beyond 2nd Street in Lakewood.
The project is in the final design phase now, and letters are expected to go out in the fall to property owners for the state to acquire some property to make the road changes. For the most part, the state would be buying a sliver of land in order to widen it, said officials from Arora and Associates, the consulting engineers on the project. In some cases, entire lots would need to be purchased in order to put in stormwater retention basins.
The project is expected to cost $50 million, said David Hutchinson, project manager with Arora, who gave a presentation recently in Lakewood.
Any time a lane has to be closed for construction, it will be done at night, according to paperwork provided by the State Department of Transportation. It is expected to be finished in 2024.
Generally speaking, the project will be adding a two traffic signals in Lakewood, and address safety and traffic issues by adding turn lanes in key spots. There will also be milling and paving work done. Wider sidewalks compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act would also be installed. Access points to and from properties on Route 9 would be improved to be made safer.
“We expect reductions in travel time,” Hutchinson said. There is a prediction of a decrease in travel times from 15 percent to 45 percent during peak hours.
There are a lot of intersections where the traffic pattern won’t change, such as on Cox Cro Road. However, throughout Route 9 there would be improvements in terms of such things as paving, drainage, curbs and sidewalks. Eight intersections would be widened, for example. There will also be two miles of sidewalks added.
The plans are still in the final design stage, and as it stands now, these are some of the changes proposed:
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Lol this will be entertaining
Damien Rodgers thought the same
Too little, too late.
Lol how about rt 70
Well that will be a shit show
Karan Rae Koller
Great. Hope it doesn’t take 5 years and have poor drainage ???
Omg how will all the canoes navigate the traffic Pedestrian beware
I hope the company that did 37 & 166 wins the bid, they were great!!!…..???
Oooof lol
Vegas puts the over/under at 6 years.
That’s optimistic.
Yeah, I’m also taking the over.
About time
This will take forever. And confiscate many people’s properties along the way. EMINENT DOMAIN, FOLKS. HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF THAT???
I remember when they went to 2 lanes north and south from Lakewood to Freehold in the mid 80s. It took a couple years. Good luck.
Population will be 200k in Lakewood by the time its done, going to have to build another rt 9 on top of rt 9
Tim Thompson now there’s a great idea lol
So that means it will start in 2023 and finish in 2030?
This will be madness lol
Nicole Marie DiMiceli lol I’ll be living in fla by then
Patricia Lorraine Zennario I hear ya. ?
It’s going to take them 20 years to complete that it’s going to be a mess thank god I’m done there soon
…..35yrs later it will still not be done.
Sally O. Noone
Nope
It’s called the over Populated community of the Jewish Orthodox.,..
They own a majority of the property in Ocean County
Will this take 3 years also??
Wait, it’s to begin in 2022, did anyone bother to check what todays date is JULY 2ND 2019,That is 3 years away, Let’s make sure we heir a real company this time and not the one that took 3 . years for 37 & 166,So i just read both articles and I read, truning lanes, side waks, drainage,curbs, turnig lanes but no where do is see anyhting aboout adding an extra lane north and south creating 4 lanes. So 50 millon for what? Or did I miss something?
Tim Reid
$50 Million for that is correct!
Hmm…
No exit off parkway going south. Would of been nice to relieve hooper in silverton.
Dennis Cafiero
Exit 83 SB is long needed!
So basically, they are finally widening RT 9 because it will now benefit the growth of the Hasidic community, but before that, go f*ck yourselves you stupid gentile..
Mary Novellino Peck
7 years of traffic
and yet they keep building away with huge housing complex buildings …. its so sad what they have done to that area.
What a shock didn’t the ‘HATS’ just get approval for a huge complex off Indian head
well it must be a secret cause the HUGE sign is in HEBREW… not a word of English which infuriates me.
Janie Vassallo SanGiacomo I believe thats illegal they made a big stink about signs only in english that their residents couldn’t read and had a law passed I am pretty sure laws work both ways go get them tiger
I lived in Lakewood my whole life why in the hell didn’t these pinheads think of this years ago ? Before the town I used to know became disgustingly overcrowded with these idiots
Funny how the DOT moved this from the “Not in our ten year plan, better luck next decade” pile (for the second or third time no less) to the “Starts next year!” pile now that the OJs moved in to North Dover. That said, I expect completion in 2037 with a cost overrun of approximately $2.8B.
Watch out for the kosher vehicles