As Labor Day approached this year, there were some whispers among locals and fall visitors to Long Beach Island of whether the traffic signals would remain fully functioning to accommodate a more populated September or whether they would all be set to blink weeks before normal seasonal adjustments on the Island. As in previous years, it was a little bit of both.  

“There’s definitely going to be more traffic this year than last year,” Surf City Mayor Francis Hodgson said earlier this week when…