The End of Another Summer

[jcgriff2]

Does anyone else live in a Shore/Beach community? Maybe the opposite - ski/snow area that fills up in the winter?

Summer just ended for us here along the NJ Shore & since yesterday, we have lost 1/2-3/4 (No idea how much really) of our population. People still do come to the beach in September (weekends mostly), but Labor Day is the official end of the summer season.

Many municipalities prepare for Summer in ways you may not think and now they are about to undo it all so the full-time residents here can move about more freely now.

For example, in Belmar - every May, all streets between Main Street and the beach become one-way. Signs are installed just for the summer. Miles of Ocean Avenue through Bradley Beach, Avon-By-The-Sea, Belmar and Spring Lake remains two-way, but the speed limit is reduced from 35 to 25 in the summer (it usually crawls along at 15). Then every block they have the new NJ State Law signs that tell us about the new pedestrian cross-walk law -- like this one -

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Our NJ Legislators at work:

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A. The driver of a vehicle must stop and stay stopped for a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk, but shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except at crosswalks when the movement of traffic is being regulated by police officers or traffic control signals, or where otherwise prohibited by municipal, county, or State regulation, and except where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided, but no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield.​

I just stop when I see people [about to] cross the street.

Now the winter work starts. The one-way signs are removed on most streets; 25 MPH speed limit signs are replaced with 35 MPH signs for starters.

I know the summer economy is very important, but I now look forward to the lack of traffic.

Jersey Shore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

p.s. I have no idea why I wrote this. :r1:

 

[cluberti]

LOL - I used to long for the days when the kids would be back in school, the tourists would go the f*ck home from wherever they came from, and a nice quiet fall could be enjoyed. :)

 

[Tekno Venus]

pedestrian cross-walk

Can't decide whether this makes more sense than our British phrase for these or not!

We call them Zebra Crossings here in the UK, because, well, they look like zebra stripes! But I suppose a crosswalk is more descriptive of their function!

 

[tom982]

I was just about to mention Pelican Puffin and Toucan crossings and say how they make no sense at all, but I've just learnt that they're acronyms.

Pelican = Pedestrian Light Controlled Crossing
Puffin = Pedestrian User Friendly Intelligent Crossings
Toucan = Two Can Cross

Dodgy acronyms though

Types of Pedestrian Crossing in the UK