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Community demands traffic study and public outreach after proposal to convert Ocean Avenue and MLK Drive to one‑ways
Summary
Residents from southern wards urged the council to halt plans to convert Ocean Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive into one‑way corridors until the city releases traffic studies and holds community meetings; council approved a resolution to create a traffic enforcement review committee and added related agenda items for later action.
Residents from several southern wards told the Jersey City Municipal Council they were not consulted about proposed one‑way conversions of Ocean Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive and urged the city to pause plans and publish a traffic study and hold community meetings.
Why it matters: speakers said both streets serve seniors, school drop‑offs and local businesses and that a corridor‑wide one‑way conversion without neighborhood outreach could disrupt transit use, emergency access and daily errands.
Several speakers said they learned of the proposal only through community…
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