Category Archives: Commuting

The Highlands Bridge as seen earlier this week, looking west from the Sandy Hook overpass. Today's Star-Ledger has a dire forecast for beachgoers heading home from Sandy Hook by car this weekend: "traffic stretching as far as the eye can...

Postal workers continue to get ticketed for a 'violation' that a lawyer contends doesn't exist on the books. The sun is high, and the RBC students who drive themselves to school are away, meaning long stretches of Hudson Avenue have...

Following up on last night's alert, New Jersey Transit has this to say about the the North Jersey Coast Line this morning: NJCL service to operate as normal today. Last evenings storm damage has been repaired and normal service has...

A summer storm that barreled through the area set off a handful of security alarms in Red Bank Sunday afternoon and had some volunteer firefighters running from one scene to another in the downpour. According to Fire Chief Noel Blackwood,...

The leading candidate for a replacement bridge — seen above in red — could be built with minimal shutdowns of the existing structure, proponents say. Top left, a rendering of the bridge with a pocket park on the Red Bank...

The temporary deck of the bridge was erected in 2004. Four years after its deck was replaced with a temporary metal structure, the West Front Street Bridge is again facing shutdown — this time so a permanent replacement can be...

The new sign, visible from Route 35/Riverside Avenue heading south across West Front Street. A welcome sign that the Red Bank Human Relations Committee bought got for free earlier this year to promote community togetherness has been posted at Veteran's...

The days are numbered for Garden State Parkway tokens, today's Star-Ledger reports. The board of commissioners of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates the parkway, is expected to vote today to stop accepting the quarter-size nickle and brass tokens...

The North Jersey Coast Line rail bridge across the Navesink River is slated for $5 million worth of upgrades, mainly on its piers, the Asbury Park Press reports today. From the story: NJ Transit's board of directors Wednesday approved a...

Already caught in a tightening squeeze on parking, employees at the Red Bank post office may now be facing a crackdown on the time they take from their posts to feed meters and move their cars, redbankgreen has learned. A...

Looking north on Hudson Avenue this morning at 7:55a. After a brief war of the curb, Hudson Avenue homeowners and tenants last night became the latest on the East Side to win resident permits to park their cars. The victory...

Turns out there's a doozie of a story behind that train delay redbankgreen reported earlier today. Red Bank police say a motorist who ran a red light downtown early this morning decided he'd try to lose a police officer pursuing...

A northbound train zips through the crossing at Broad Street and Newman Springs Road this morning. North Jersey Coast Line trains are now reported to be running an hour late because of delays caused by a car that had been...

SeaStreak, the ferry line that zips commuters to Wall Street and midtown Manhattan from docks in Highlands and Atlantic Highlands, appears to have found a white knight. The four-catamaran line's parent company, Sea Containers America Inc., confirmed today that it...

The borough parking lot on White Street, as seen last September. Here's a story that will gladden the hearts of many Red Bank retailers and restaurateurs while no doubt raising hackles in other quarters. The Asbury Park Press is reporting...

Today's Asbury Park Press has a feature on reverse commuters — people who come to the Shore from Manhattan to work. And all three people cited as examples happen to own stores in downtown Red Bank. Interviewed are Mike Buess...

More than 100 area residents turned out last night at Mahala F. Atchison Elementary School in Tinton Falls last night for a discussion on Gov. Jon Corzine's effort to balance the state budge using steep toll-road fare increases, today's Asbury...

What's going on with SeaStreak, the ferry that runs between Manhattan and piers in Atlantic Highlands and Highlands? Yesterday, a handful of runs were canceled. The ferry company attributed the moves to delays in obtaining "certification of documentation for the...

Rail travel is off to a rough start this morning. Because of an "overhead wire problem," trains on the North Jersey Coast Line, which serves our area, as well as on the Northeast Corridor, are experiencing delays of 30 to...

Wall Street billionaire and Two River Times columnist Mickey Gooch and other investors are reluctantly moving toward a purchase of the SeaStreak ferry line that runs from northern Monmouth County to Manhattan, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Reluctantly, that is,...