One of the best days on Long Beach Island comes in the fall when an Ocean County road crew works up and down Long Beach Boulevard to turn working traffic signals to blink, marking the official beginning of the off-season on the barrier island. Things have changed over the years, of course, including when the traffic signals turn to blink in some communities, but perhaps the biggest change is traffic.

Yes, even in the off-season there is traffic on LBI; not bumper-to-bumper snarls commonplace on summer weekends, but…