Atlantic City, NJ, Police Will Address Busy Intersections

The Atlantic City Police Department has lowered crime by 11 percent for the past quarter.

Here is more goods news. The Atlantic City Police Department is going to provide additional focus on busy intersections.

Powered by a grant from Highway Traffic Safety - Atlantic-Cape May Region. This will allow the ACPD to embark upon a comprehensive pedestrian safety project.

The goal is to reduce pedestrian car crashes through education, enforcement, and public awareness.

The program will begin on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Here’s how it will work.

ACPD officers will begin conducting enforcement operations throughout high-volume pedestrian areas that will continue through the summer. Those who violate the existing traffic laws could be subject to citation and provided with an educational pamphlet explaining the importance of pedestrian satety. Police are encouraging pedestrians to look both ways before crossing, utilize crosswalks and intersections, wait for the walk signal, and heads up, phones down. Similarly, the ACPD wants drivers to slow down, stop for people crossing, eliminate distractions, and adhere to "heads up, phones down, said the ACPD.

As an important component of this public awareness campaign, pedestrian safety messaging will be displayed on the digital screens along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.

This will help to bring about overall awareness and it will also involve visitors in the campaign.

There will also be a public service announcement that will be run on television throughout the summer season to reinforce the message about pedestrian safety.

SOURCE: Atlantic City Police Department.