Just let them do it. See how long they last without:
Postal deliveries from out of town drivers
Food, drug, parcel deliveries from out of town drivers
Gasoline from out of town drivers
And the like.

They're either public streets or they're not.

So they are proposing to restrict the travel of people traveling between states to conduct commerce? LOL, that's specifically prohibited in the Constitution. Have the town lawyers never heard of the Interstate Commerce Clause? What nonsense.

At rush hour people use our neighborhood residential streets as pass throughs for commuters. They do 40-45mph and it’s posted 30 mph and we have lots of kids around. Neighbors have put up signs “Drive like your kids live here” and I’ve noticed local LE showing up and parking during rush hours. It has gotten out of hand.

They'll be about as successful as a Chil-Fil-A boycott.
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It will never stand up in court. I love it when the idiot politicians enact this type of stupidity , then dump it on others to enforce and deal with. on the road. It will go largely unenforced.

If there is an issue with commuter traffic using smaller sidestreet and operating in a unsafe manner, deal with that. 60 streets??? Idiotic.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
This is one of the advantages of living on a dead-end street.

I'm on a long-U shaped circle. When you see the same car go by the third time your flag goes up!

They have these in high dollar neighborhoods in MD. No turns certain hours, no parking without pass, no trucks, no commercial vehicles, no thru traffic. Pretty much during rush-hour if you don't live there or have business there you can't drive there. They also have BS speed cameras set up everywhere.

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Originally posted by rscalzo:
It will never stand up in court. I love it when the idiot politicians enact this type of stupidity , then dump it on others to enforce and deal with. on the road. It will go largely unenforced.

If there is an issue with commuter traffic using smaller sidestreet and operating in a unsafe manner, deal with that. 60 streets??? Idiotic.

That about sums things up for the politicians who run New Jersey from top to bottom. They get most of the press, but my thoughts and prayers are for the good people of NJ who the fight the fight despite the odds.

Awesome idea. Hope it somehow manages to stand up against scrutiny.

I'd also like to see it applied in reverse to interstates, that is, no local traffic on interstates. They should be for travel to and from locations, at which time you then disembark and drive on local roads.

AFAIK, there is no law that requires a city or municipality to have a particular street plan. So block off a few streets here and there such that there is no longer a direct route through the city, or what exists is so convoluted no one would want to drive it (except, of course, those who live there).

flashguy

When the town is sued penniless, I'm sure the voters will take up pitchforks and torches and march to City Hall demanding blood.

Or, alternatively, maybe they'll just shrug, vote for the same slugs again (because there's a parentheses-D-parentheses after the name on the ballot) and bitch a little when their property taxes go up to pay for the civil judgments.

Having lived in this hellscape for a few years, I'm betting on Door #2.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
This is one of the advantages of living on a dead-end street.

I'm on a long-U shaped circle. When you see the same car go by the third time your flag goes up!

We live in the country. After the 3rd pass, someone goes out and tells them how to get back to town.

Hey now, the town was voted the 32nd best place to live in NJ in 2008. They know what is going on.

I used to travel from southern NJ up to Westchester, NY every week sometimes several times. The roads leading up to the George Washington bridge to get you across the Hudson into the Bronx can be backed up for hours and that's on a normal day. Waze will route you through Fort Lee, Leonia and the surrounding small towns often saving at least an hour. I'm glad I don't have to do that drive anymore because taking that short cut away is going to really ramp up the traffic over the bridge and give no alternate. For that, I'm against it and agree with everyone that it remains to be seen how it will hold up in court. Also, the local PD admits they'll only be able to ticket an extremely limited number of cars. They just do not have the man power for the many thousands of cars coming through there every day.

That said, when the GW is backed up I understand the residents wanting some kind of solution. The local roads are flooded with cars for miles down every side street and through many of the small neighborhoods. If you live there you can't get your car out of the driveway to go anywhere and typical New Yorkers driving through will honk and otherwise act like assholes to add insult to injury. The issue is the roads and infrastructure simply cannot handle the traffic flowing into and out of NYC and Cuomo would rather spend money on grandiose projects to slap his Daddy's name on in his prep for the 2020 run.

Local businesses will get hurt by this.
People from the bordering towns won't come in to do business if they're going to get fined.
What idiots.

Hmmmm. I see a business opportunity in the yellow tag counterfeitting business.

I'm all for it. While they're at it, they should also not let their residents leave as to infest the other parts of the country with that special brand of New Jersey bullshit. Already see enough of that shit down here in central Florida with all the NJ plates.

Why don't you ask Ft. Lee, NJ to close down the George Washington Bridge...

Oh wait...

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Originally posted by Sig M11:
Why don't you ask Ft. Lee, NJ to close down the George Washington Bridge...

Oh wait...

LOL!!!