The Bigger Picture…

Start planning for the future! The CNJ really is being revived… Red Bank has to get into gear about this. When will the municipality start to see the bigger picture? The station and transit village redevelopment can’t take place without…

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Senator Gopal Takes Charge

At the end of November 2023, Monmouth’s Vin Gopal presented this Bill – Bill S4132 Sca (1R) to the NJ Senate which requires “… low-speed electric bicycles and low-speed electric scooters to be registered with MVC and to be insured.”…

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Red Cross, Red Flag, Red Bank…

This is not Red Bank NJT Station, but Aberdeen-Matawan, where the red cross of death has recently appeared on the station house. It appears that being listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic…

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Yeah… I’m back…

Red Bank Rising is coming back, and some people aren’t going to like it…

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Now… About Helmet Hair…

A few notes about bicycle helmets. These also apply to skateboarding and similar activities: A bicycle helmet is a single-use device. One crash, even just dropping it on the floor drastically affects its ability to protect. Most modern helmets are…

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Lost Horizon

Red Bank may be about to lose its potential as an expanded transit hub Red Bank is about to lose its weekly southbound rail freight movement from Sayreville, over NJT lines through to the old CNJ link and onwards towards…

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Watch the birdie…

Twitter and beyond: I have never been part of the Twitterverse. Some friends are and still have commendably large rosters of followers. All have been hit by the shenanigans over the last few months or so, enabling vile racists, sociopaths…

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On ‘yer bike…

More greenwashing? When the town has more public eV charging points than bike parking racks… NB: There are four eV charging spots. A reminder of what a bike rack looks like:

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