Jughandle Ban Bill Passes Senate Committee
Measure is sponsored by Ocean County legislator
A bill that would ban the future construction of jughandles in New Jersey passed muster with a state Senate panel Monday, paving the way for its potential consideration before the entire body. The measure by state Sen. James Holzapfel (R-Ocean) would prohibit the planning, design or construction of any additional jughandles on roads or highways statewide. It passed the Senate Transportation Committee Monday. Holzapfel, in a statement issued after the committee vote, said the bill was inspired by projects on several state highways—including Routes 1, 4 and 130—where issues of heavy congestion and frequent accidents were solved by removing jughandles and replacing them with flyover bridges and modernized intersection designs. "While …
Daniel P. Brown
6:30 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
When I rode with Eatontown First Aid, there were accidents at the intersection and the remnants of the circle.... but 36 & Wyckoff, with left turns, was far worse. Now, up here in Northeast Pennsylvania, where there are no jughandles and only one circle (well, square, really, which is in Wilkes-Barre), traffic consistently gets snarled and left-turning folks wind up in serious head-on crashes. I … more ›