Soon the Township will try to squeeze a few more diagonal parking spaces into the residential part of Main Avenue near Firemen’s Park all the way to the “gates.” That will be ugly and risky and will not help the residents of Ocean Grove with their intermittently disabling parking issues. We all have tried to enter Main Avenue from one of those side streets located where diagonal parking already exists (such as New Jersey Avenue at Main.) It is discouraging, dangerous, scary and difficult because oftentimes the driver cannot see what is coming as he plans to enter Main Ave.
But also, as Rich Amole points out in the photo above, huge cars/trucks often occupy those diagonal spaces, and that can cause a problem as a car driving on Main has to go around that big vehicle.
Rich says:
“Hi Paul: Accident waiting to happen?
“Vehicle turning off of Ocean Ave onto Main Ave. certainly does not expect that a vehicle heading to Ocean Ave. has to swerve into that other lane to avoid hitting the truck. I happened to be in the Grove last Saturday and did have to pass into the other lane with caution.”
These are examples of how desperate attempts to add parking spaces in a futile effort to provide for the growing number of cars in the Grove all season long and beyond in both directions can create more chances for accidents. We need to have less cars in this small town–not more. People, including children actually live here; let’s improve the safety profile for them.
Cancel the plans for more diagonal parking and then let’s do some real creative thinking to help the residents.
Illegally parked vehicles should at least be ticketed. If a vehicle is parked in such a way that it is causing a high safety issue such as forcing someone to leave their lane of travel into opposing traffic or obstructing a roadway or corner so that emergency vehicles are unable to get through that vehicle should be towed ASAP.
This is indeed a very dangerous situation. Nothing like a black truck in the middle of the street on a dark night! I brought up this same issue at the Homeowners Association meeting several months ago. The police should ticket over-sized vehicles that park in diagonal spaces. Signs stating that the spaces are for small to medium sized cars only should be visibly placed.
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Ocean Grove: a really cute small town at the Jersey Shore.
Illegally parked vehicles should at least be ticketed. If a vehicle is parked in such a way that it is causing a high safety issue such as forcing someone to leave their lane of travel into opposing traffic or obstructing a roadway or corner so that emergency vehicles are unable to get through that vehicle should be towed ASAP.
This is indeed a very dangerous situation. Nothing like a black truck in the middle of the street on a dark night! I brought up this same issue at the Homeowners Association meeting several months ago. The police should ticket over-sized vehicles that park in diagonal spaces. Signs stating that the spaces are for small to medium sized cars only should be visibly placed.