SAFE Streets

The implementation plan requires the master plan to take all roadway users — motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians and mass transit riders — into consideration when upgrading Montclair’s streets or designing new infrastructure. 

Montclair’s SAFE Complete Streets Implementation Plan is closer to becoming part of the master plan after Planning Board members voted on Monday, Sept. 21, to incorporate it, but only after a preamble is written up.

The Montclair Planning Board has yet to decide if the biking elements of the SAFE Streets plan should be incorporated into the township’s master plan.

As more Montclairians are biking and walking the streets since the pandemic hit, Bike&Walk Montclair wants to temporarily transform some residential and business district roads and sidewalks into walking and biking paths. 

Planning board members are again voicing their concerns with the creation of bike paths in Montclair, this time even with a temporary measure.

Bike & Walk Montclair is now stepping up its lobbying efforts in favor of the adoption of the Montclair SAFE Complete Streets Implementation Plan, which has been stalled at the planning board level since 2017, as part of the township’s master plan.

BY JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS winters@montclairlocal.news Montclair’s plan to implement SAFE Complete Streets, which could result in bike paths in some areas of town, has again been sent back to committee for further study. Planner Janice Talley told planning board members that by supporting the plan, they were in no way committing to bike routes on any street. The ...

By Jaimie Julia Winters winters@montclairlocal.news The number of pedestrians struck by vehicles on the streets of Montclair is not on the decline, according to a report issued by the town’s Pedestrian Safety Committee. In 2018, 41 pedestrians were hit, including two which resulted in death, nearly identical to the 42 pedestrian hits in 2017. This...

A plan to implement safer streets and create easy alternatives to cars in Montclair has remained stalled for over a year.