14 Mar ESSEX COUNTY EXECUTIVE DIVINCENZO ANNOUNCES $46.5 MILLION IN GRANTS TO MODERNIZE 54 INTERSECTIONS Essex County Receives Largest Ever Safety Grant from NJTPA to Enhance Safety and Improve Flow of Traffic
Published on March 14, 2023
Essex County, NJ – Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. announced the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority has awarded Essex County two grants totaling $46 million grant to modernize and update 54 intersections in nine Essex County municipalities on Monday, March 13th. The two grants – for 24,830,00 and $21,735,000 for a total of $46.565 million – is the largest safety-oriented award ever given by the NJTPA through its Local Safety Program.
““The NJTPA plays an important role, overseeing the investment of billions of dollars in our region’s transportation infrastructure and virtually all projects are designed with safety as a top priority. Receiving the largest safety grant ever awarded by the authority and the improvements that it will support represent a great investment in our ongoing initiative to enhance the safety of our pedestrians and motorists,” DiVincenzo said. “Our county roads are the lifeline for our residents and businesses, and making sure we have the most up to date equipment will make our roads more walkable and drivable, contribute to our quality of life and enhance property values,” he added.
The needs of each intersection will be addressed. This includes, but is not limited to, new state-of-the-art traffic signal equipment, LED lights which shine brighter and are more energy efficient, new signage and roadway striping, back-up power to ensure signals begin working if there is an electrical failure, and a camera system to enable traffic signals along shared corridors to be synchronized to maximize traffic flow.
The award of the grant allows Essex County to hire traffic engineers to review each intersection and create plans to upgrade them. Construction will commence after each plan is finalized.
The roadways where intersections are being upgraded include Bloomfield Avenue traveling through Newark, Bloomfield and Glen Ridge, Ridgewood Avenue in Glen Ridge, Grove Street in East Orange, Newark and Irvington, Irvington Avenue in South Orange and Newark, and Clinton Avenue in Irvington. The breakdown of intersections in each municipality is as follows: There are 17 intersections in Newark, 13 intersections in Irvington, 10 intersections in East Orange, five intersections in Bloomfield, five intersections in Glen Ridge, two in South Orange, one in Maplewood and one that includes Newark and Belleville.
The intersections are as follows:
- Bloomfield Avenue & Broadway / Bloomfield Place, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Park Avenue / Crittenden Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Summer Avenue, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Garside Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Mt. Prospect Avenue, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Clifton Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Parker Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Lake Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & North 3rd Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & 5th Street / 1st Avenue, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & North 6th Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Roseville Avenue / North 8th Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Beardsley Avenue / North 11th Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & North 12th Street, Newark
- Bloomfield Avenue & Belmont Avenue / North 15th Street, Newark / Belleville
- Bloomfield Avenue & Ampere Parkway, Bloomfield
- Bloomfield Avenue & Watsessing Avenue, Bloomfield
- Bloomfield Avenue & Ella Street, Bloomfield
- Bloomfield Avenue & Ward Street, Bloomfield
- Bloomfield Avenue & Liberty Street, Bloomfield
- Bloomfield Avenue & Park Avenue / Hillside Avenue, Glen Ridge
- Bloomfield Avenue & Highland Avenue, Glen Ridge
- Ridgewood Avenue & Bloomfield Avenue, Glen Ridge
- Ridgewood Avenue & Belleville Avenue, Glen Ridge
- Ridgewood Avenue & Bay Avenue, Glen Ridge
- North Grove Street & Hoffman Blvd., East Orange
- North Grove Street & Rutledge Avenue, East Orange
- North Grove Street & Springdale Avenue, East Orange
- North Grove Street & 4th Avenue, East Orange
- North Grove Street & Park Avenue, East Orange
- North Grove Street & William Street, East Orange
- Grove Street & Main Street / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., East Orange
- South Grove Street & Sussex Avenue, East Orange
- South Grove Street & Winthrop Terrace, East Orange
- South Grove Street & Central Avenue, East Orange
- Grove Street & South Orange Avenue, Newark
- Grove Street & 14th Avenue, Irvington
- Grove Street & 15th Avenue, Irvington
- Grove Street & 16th Avenue, Irvington
- Grove Street & 18th Avenue, Irvington
- Grove Street & Berkley Terrace, Irvington
- Grove Street & Clinton Avenue, Irvington
- Grove Street & Nye Avenue, Irvington
- Irvington Avenue & Riggs Place / Tichenor Avenue, South Orange
- Irvington Avenue & Ward Place, South Orange
- Irvington Avenue & Boyden Avenue / Manor Drive, Newark
- Irvington Avenue & Putnam Street / Norman Road, Newark
- Irvington Avenue & Parker Avenue / Clinton Avenue, Maplewood
- Clinton Avenue & Florence Avenue, Irvington
- Clinton Avenue & Sanford Avenue, Irvington
- Clinton Avenue & Stuyvesant Avenue, Irvington
- Clinton Avenue & Civic Square, Irvington
- Clinton Avenue & Orange Avenue, Irvington
- Clinton Avenue & Cummings Street / New Street, Irvington
The NJTPA oversees regional transportation planning and annually authorizes more than $1 billion in federal surface transportation funding for 13 counties in northern and central New Jersey. The Executive Committee provides guidance and leadership to the full Board on a wide range of planning, policy and administrative issues. It meets as needed to review financial, personnel and policy matters. Board membership is an uncompensated position.