Jersey City targets 80 locations to improve traffic safety and reduce fatalities
Jersey City recorded seven deaths from traffic accidents in 2025. The city wants to reduce that number to zero with plans for safety improvements.
Jersey City officials have announced a plan for 100 “quick build” projects to make streets safer for all.
Last year, city officials recorded seven deaths, along with 38 serious injuries due to traffic accidents. With this new plan for improvements, the goal is to reduce that number to zero.
The city is targeting 80 locations with these quick-build projects, which officials say are inexpensive and can be completed within a few months.
The improvements include extending curbs, improved lighting, pedestrian signage and measures to reduce the speed of cars.
Pedestrians tell News 12 that they are especially happy about the increase in extended curbs, which help those who step out into a pedestrian walkway to look for cars at an intersection.
"It reduces the distance that the pedestrian is exposed to car traffic. When cars are parked all the way to the corner, you can’t see who’s coming and then you have to peek out in the intersection. And a car could be coming," said Beatriz Bofill.
In Journal Square, walker Charles Gadsden says he appreciates the improvements already made to busy intersections.
Over a period of 30 years of walking these streets, Gadsden has seen improvements that have been made. But he says his favorite by far is the bike and scooter lane against the curb.
“Especially the bikes, no more accidents with people getting hit, where you've got to worry about the cars and the bikes. Now you don’t have to worry about neither," said Gadsden.
City officials say the goal is to have more intersections in Jersey City mimicking the one at Kensington and Bergen Avenue, where there are extended curbs, pylons and flashing crosswalk signs to alert drivers.
