CHANGES: EHT Intersections Getting New Four-Way Stop Signs

If you live, work, or drive in Egg Harbor Township, prepare for things to change.

Three different intersections will be changed as officials install four-way stop signs at the intersections.

The Township approved the changes, and Egg Harbor Township Police will monitor the implementation of the new traffic patterns.

Dangerous intersections will be changed

The three intersections that will be changing will be:

• Reega Avenue and Cates Road
• West Jersey Avenue and Cates Road
• West Jersey Avenue and Ridge Avenue

We've written about the West Jersey & Ridge Avenue intersection before. Accidents happened so frequently that the guardrails at the intersection had become tangled pieces of junk - and had to be repaired often. Lately, the guardrails have just been removed - perhaps in anticipation of the change.

The two intersections at Cates Avenue are literally about 50 feet apart. Honestly, those weren't even full intersections until a cut-thru of the bike path was made there. (I wonder why they just don't close down the cut-thru and return it to how it was.)

There are currently two-way stops at each intersection.

Traffic will slow down

The new four-way stops will be installed the week of December 16th, and their purpose is, obviously, to slow down traffic, and make the intersection more safe.

How much traffic backs up in the area - especially during drive times - remains to be seen.

(By the way, I love the "purists" who say the stop signs wouldn't be needed, "If people would just slow down." - Friends, you can't just tell everyone to drive more carefully, that doesn't work.)

Thanks to local police

Sign boards are going up near the intersections already, warning of the upcoming change.

Egg Harbor Township Police will be monitoring the areas as people adjust to the new traffic flow.

Drive safe, EHT!