It seems that parking and speeding problems are not a new situation in Atlantic Highlands. One hundred years ago, the police and marshals, all 21 of them, called for a meeting with the Mayor to resolve the issue.
Mayor H. A. Hendrickson and CC Phillips, the police commissioner, held a meeting in August, 1925 to talk with the police and marshals about parking along Mount Avenue and speeding on Valley Drive.
At the meeting, it was decided that all parking on the south side of Mount Avenue, between First and Third Avenues, would be stopped and no parking signs installed due to complaints that the fire trucks “have been hampered getting out of the fire house by the cars parked in this district.”
Stringent measures would to taken to enforce the regulations, it was decided at the meeting,, “regardless of person or persons offending.”
Police Chief Sweeney then detailed special officers Otto Harden and Harold Graves to stop the fast and reckless driving on Valley Drive. It appeared that early in the morning and later in the day drivers were rushing to and from boats and trains at high rates of speed. Tickets will be handed to all persons violating the speeding regulations, it was decided.
A committee was named and given one week to prepare a set of rules or suggestions of improvements to the current rules to ensure the speeding and parking problems would be resolved. It as also suggested that a copy of the rules be given to all officers since it seems reckless driving ”has been the custom on that thoroughfare for some time. Committee members named to resolve the issues with the Chief and Police Commissioner were L. Jerome Aimar, W P Irwin and Samuel Van Poznak.
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