In the off-season, it’s possible to travel northbound on the Boulevard from Holgate to Barnegat Light in about 30 minutes. Not so for the return trip as traffic signals on Central Avenue in Ship Bottom are once again out of sync, leaving motorists speeding through one light only to be stuck for several minutes at the next one.
“I was the first car in line. (The traffic light) at Ninth and Central also had the red signal with no cars,” Surf City Councilman Peter Hartney wrote in a missive to the…
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