Long Beach Island officials are urging the N.J. Department of Transportation to redesign the recently reconfigured area of Eighth Street in the vicinity of Hotel LBI and CVS due to traffic safety concerns for the sole exit road off the barrier island.

“It’s terrible,” Ship Bottom Mayor William Huelsenbeck said Aug. 23 of the turn from Eighth Street into a truncated version of what was once an access lane to and from the businesses as well as a U-turn around the front of the hotel onto Ninth…