{"id":237918,"date":"2026-05-20T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237918\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:25:41","slug":"speed-limit-too-high-on-new-brooklyn-erial-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237918\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed limit too high on New Brooklyn-Erial Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A traffic investigation determined the speed limit of 50 miles per hour on New Brooklyn-Erial Road (County Road 706) at three points is \u201csomewhat fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The township directed its traffic engineer, Environmental Resolutions Inc. (ERI), to conduct an investigation into that  speed limit, completed last September.<\/p>\n<p>ERI\u2019s investigation concluded that because the area is in a suburban business or residential district and is in the vicinity of the recreational or park area, \u201cthe current speed limit of 50 mph is somewhat fast and recommends that the speed limit be reduced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Jake\u2019s Place Playground that opened in 2024 sits at New Brooklyn Park, 123 New Brooklyn-Erial Road. The all-inclusive playground is designed to allow children of all abilities to play together. It\u2019s the third of its kind in Camden County.<\/p>\n<p>The New Brooklyn Park location features inclusive park equipment, accessible surfacing, a picnic area, safety features and accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>Kids Park Playground and New Brooklyn Disc Golf Course are also in the area.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2013 New Brooklyn-Erial Road between Eden Hollow Lane and Lehigh Manor Drive, will reduce to 35 mph in both directions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 New Brooklyn-Erial Road between Lehigh Manor Drive Sicklerville Road (County Road 705) will reduce to 40 mph in both directions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 New Brooklyn-Erial Road between Eden Hollow Lane Williamstown-New Freedom Road will reduce to 40 mph in both directions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A traffic investigation determined the speed limit of 50 miles per hour on New Brooklyn-Erial Road (County Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}