Bill Text: NJ S257 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the State Police to implement reverse lane strategy on certain roads.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S257 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S257-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)
Senator CHRISTOPHER J. CONNORS
District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Requires the State Police to implement reverse lane strategy on certain roads.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning emergency evacuation and supplementing chapter 9 of Appendix A.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. For the purposes of this act, a "lane reversal strategy" means an evacuation plan that reverses the flow of traffic in lanes that are normally configured for travel in one direction, resulting in all traffic traveling in the same direction on all lanes of a highway.
The New Jersey State Police shall work in conjunction with county emergency management coordinators to implement a lane reversal strategy on the Atlantic City Expressway, the Garden State Parkway, and ROUTE 287 in this State in preparation for an evacuation during an emergency.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that the New Jersey State Police to work in conjunction with county emergency management coordinators to implement a lane reversal strategy on the Atlantic City Expressway, the Garden State Parkway, and ROUTE 287 in this State in preparation for an evacuation during an emergency.
The bill defines "lane reversal strategy" as an evacuation plan that reverses the flow of traffic in lanes that are normally configured for travel in the opposite direction. As a result, all traffic is traveling in the same direction on all lanes of a highway.
This bill would implement Recommendation 3 of the Final Report of the Assembly Coastal New Jersey Evacuation Task Force which was submitted to the Speaker on May 23, 2008.
