For over 10 years and counting, 83-year-old Ken Roth has greeted those who descend from the southbound NJ Transit train at Asbury Park’s Transportation Center. A lifetime member of the Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce, Roth said greeting visitors from 11 am to 2 pm Saturday and Sunday from Memorial Day weekend through Labor began […]

Upgrades to the Main Street water line will begin Monday night and is expected to run through Thursday, City Manager Michael Capabianco said at a recent City Council meeting. Motorists should expect some traffic flow changes and delays as the work will be done along a travel lane. The infrastructure upgrade is among a host […]

In a formal letter to NJ Transit, the city’s governing body has asked for the summer season’s late night train to continue service throughout the year, according to a news release issued Thursday morning. “Asbury Park gets more traffic through NJ Transit in the summer months, absolutely,” Mayor John Moor said in a written news […]

Area police and OEM directors are warning residents to be mindful of the calm in the weekend storm. Having just completed a county-wide conference call, officials now anticipate 50 to 60 mile per hour wind gusts along the Jersey shore and up to 24 inches of snow, a report from Deal’s Chief of Police and […]

The Summerfield Avenue railroad crossing will close permanently to pedestrian and vehicular traffic Tuesday, Mayor John Moor announced at Monday night’s City Council workshop meeting. The crossing was schedule for closure later this year but a split in the rail’s mainline prompted the immediate closure, Moor said. “We got the news today from the DOT […]

Members of the Asbury Park City Council are all in agreement that none of the city’s railway intersections between Memorial Drive and Main Street should be shut off to traffic. In a discussion held during the Aug. 6 city council meeting, all five council members agreed to send correspondence to the state department of transportation […]

Representatives from the New Jersey Department of Transportation [DOT] and NJ Transit officials met with city officials Friday to discuss a plan that would permanently close access between Main Street and Memorial Drive at the intersection of Summerfield Avenue. The closure dovetails with a county project that will reconfigure the traffic pattern of Memorial Drive […]

New Jersey state Senator Jennifer Beck Tuesday toured three train stations in the Eleventh District with NJ Transit Executive Director, Veronique “Ronnie” Hakim, and members of her staff. Hakim [shown above, at far right] expressed interest in visiting the district and seeing its train stations when the two shared previous correspondence in the spring, according to […]

Members of Asbury Park’s North Jersey Coast Line Coalition have requested a meeting with New Jersey Transit Executive Director Veronique Hakim to push for year-round direct train service between New York and Asbury Park. Members of the coalition’s executive board introduced themselves at a NJ Transit public board meeting Wednesday. The group seeks to bring […]

A petition that seeks direct train service between Bay Head and New York Penn Station has been created on online petition site change.org. The petition pressures Veronique Hakim, executive director of NJ Transit, for a “one seat ride” service that would eliminate train transfers in Newark and Long Branch station, significantly reducing the time and […]