‘Road diet’ for Atlantic City’s Atlantic Avenue latest of many safety tries
, 2022-12-04 04:30:00,
Kelly Wright, owner of Ahkii Soul, discusses his view on the city’s plan for a “road diet” through Atlantic Avenue in Atlantic City.
ATLANTIC CITY — The city’s “road diet” for 2.7 miles of Atlantic Avenue is not the first controversial plan for improving traffic flow here and making the streets safer for pedestrians and drivers.
Since 1906, some officials have tried without success to make Pacific Avenue a one-way street.
Mayor Edward Bader — for whom the historic airfield was named — made his attempt in 1920.
Others resurrected the cause many times in the 1980s and ’90s, and added one-way plans or other options for Atlantic Avenue into the mix.
For a while in 2008, there was significant support to make Pacific one-way toward the Inlet and Atlantic one-way toward Ventnor, but the initiative fell apart because of opposition from the Atlantic City Jitney Association and the business community.
“Our concern is having two transportation companies operating on the same route,” then Jitney President Tom Woodruff said at the time about jitneys having to use Atlantic Avenue in one direction and NJ Transit buses having to use Pacific in the other.
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