South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization

782 South Brewster Road, Unit B6, South Jersey Vineland, New Jersey 08361

Transportation www.sjtpo.org (856) 794-1941 (856) 794-2549 (fax) Planning Organization

Serving Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Timothy G. Chelius, P.P., AICP and Salem Counties since 1993. Executive Director

Leonard Desiderio, Chairman Benjamin H. Laury, Vice Chairman Will Pauls, Secretary/Treasurer

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT – 3/23/15

FEDERAL CERTIFICATION REVIEW Our certification is now set for Tuesday, March 31 and Wednesday, April 1, with a public session from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Board members are invited to speak with the federal team at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 1.

SJTPO SAFETY EDUCATION Please check out the attached articles, which represent only a small fraction of the outreach successes of Wayne Shelton, Bob Clarke, and Tina Arcaro. Special thanks to the NJ Division of Highway Traffic Safety for their guidance and funding.

FY 2016 CMAQ PROGRAM CALL FOR PROJECTS We are now accepting project applications for our FY 2016 CMAQ Program. Applications are due June 5, and please visit our website or call Tim or Andrew for more information.

LOCAL LEAD PROJECTS Please check out the enclosed status sheets, and let me or Jennifer Marandino know if you have any questions. At this point in the fiscal year, all Local Lead projects are on track.

Volume 21, Issue 4 4th Quarter 2014

Changes in Washington, DC

Plus... CVSA Transitions to New Leadership for 2015 CVSA Launches New Award Program for Exceptional CMV Drivers & More! REGIONAL NEWS REGION I New Jersey Hosts Two-Part Teens and Trucks Safety Awareness Event for Operation Safe Driver Week

By Shari Leichter, Administrative Analyst II, Bureau of Trucking/Freight Services, New Jersey Department of Transportation New Jersey held a two-part Teens and Trucks safety education and awareness event at Hammonton High School for Operation Safe Driver Week. The event was sponsored by Atlantic Investigations and CVSA.

n Oct. 16, 2014, the classroom Texting Promise” poster board was signed by training portion of the educational the teens, pledging not to text while behind the program took place. There were wheel. In fact, the students filled both sides Oeight classes; each lasted about 43 of the board with their signatures. minutes. The four classroom instructors were Sgt. Scott Dorrler from New Jersey State Police The goal of these safety demonstrations is to (NJSP), Transportation Safety Bureau; Detective prevent accidents involving teens and large Sgt. Matt Razukas, Fatal Unit, NJSP; and Robert trucks and buses by showing young drivers how (Bobbie) Clarke, Retired Atlantic City Sergeant, different the world looks from the driver’s seat and Wayne Shelton, Retired NJSP Lieutenant, of a large truck or bus. REGIONAL MAP who now both work for the South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization. The speakers were: Dan Blachford, Superindentant Region I from Hammonton High School; Chris Rotondo, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Instructors taught teens how to be aware of the Division Administrator, New Jersey, Federal Motor Columbia, Maine, Maryland, blind spots (also called “No Zones”), the three- Carrier Safety Administration, U.S. Department Massachusetts, New Hampshire, second rule and to always keep a safe distance of Transportation; Sgt. Thomas Fuller, Past CVSA New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, around large trucks and buses. The students President, New York State Police; Greg Crescenzo, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, were taught to avoid all types of distractions, Licensed Private Investigator and Co-Owner of US Virgin Islands and Vermont including talking to passengers, adjusting the Atlantic Investigations LLC (Retired Hammonton radio or GPS, eating, drinking, reading, using a Police Officer); Freeholder James A. Bertino, Fifth Region II cell phone, reaching for something you dropped District, New Jersey; and Shari Leichter, MCSAP Alabama, American Samoa, Arkansas, on the floor or any other activity that removes Coordinator, New Jersey Department of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, your attention from the road. Instructors Transportation, and CVSA Liaison for the state of Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, showed videos of distracted driving and we New Jersey. South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, witnessed some teens jump in their seats when Virginia and West Virginia they saw the car crash into a truck and flip over Other attendees, participants and instructors due to distracted driving. We also handed out who helped out were: Lonnie Reeves, Safety Region III flyers on how to share the road safely with large Director, Safeway Group; Sam Tedesco, Vice Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, trucks and buses to all of the teens. President, Safeway Group; John Mavilla, Safety Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Director, Santelli Trucking (Retired Hammonton North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, On Oct. 20, 2014, we had the second part of this Lieutenant); Scott Marks, Owner, Marksmen Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin event, which was outside. There were seven Transport; Fred Terpolilli, Director of stations set up in front of Hammonton High Operations, Lee Transport; Todd Stine, Road Region IV School. Approximately 1,471 teens went through Team Driver, American Trucking Associations; Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, each station and were taught about the Joseph Brown, Co-Owner, Atlantic Hawaii, Idaho, Mexico, Montana, limitations and characteristics of large trucks and Investigations (Retired Sergeant First Class from Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, buses compared to passenger vehicles and NJSP); John Panepinto, Retired Hammonton Washington and Wyoming motorcycles. Sergeant; Michele Mclaughlin, Retired NJSP Sergeant First Class; Lori Fritsch, Retired NJSP Region V New Jersey State Police, safety experts and Lieutenant; Kirk McLaughlin, Retired NJSP Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, other officers invited teens into commercial Major; Peter Staats, CPS Investigations; Karen NewBrunswick, Newfoundland and motor vehicles to demonstrate the “No Zones” Kaufman, NJSP Transportation Safety Bureau; Labrador, Nova Scotia, Northwest and to experience what it is like to be a Tina Arcaro, Retired NJSP Captain from South Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince commercial vehicle driver. The teens also sat in Transportation Planning Organization; Joseph Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan a passenger vehicle strategically placed within Girelo, Hammonton School Board President; Leo and Yukon the truck’s “No Zones” to further illustrate the Petetti, Hammonton High School Board dangers of driving in those areas. Teens learned Member and Event Liaison; and eight about distracted driving and tips to avoid Hammonton High School gym teachers. distractions while behind the wheel. A “No

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A special thank you to: Rob Abbott from ATA Administration for having this program at their and Elisabeth Barna from FedEx for sending school and to CVSA for help sponsoring this. two additional trucks from FedEx and Carbon We look forward to helping out again next year The goal of Express; the FedEx Driver; Brian Neal, Chairman and continuing this program in the State of of Operation Safe Driver and Senior Manager of New Jersey. these safety Corporate Safety for FedEx Ground; CVSA Executive Director Steve Keppler and Nicole We want to promote safety, reduce commercial demonstrations is Leandro, CVSA Communications Manager. motor vehicle crashes and save lives. Remember, driving is a privilege, and our goal to prevent accidents A special thank you to Greg Crescenzo, is to have zero fatalities. If the instructors Co-Owner, Atlantic Investigations, for getting saved one life by teaching this program, then involving teens. this program started in New Jersey. Also, they made a diﬀerence. n thank you to Superintendent Dan Blachford of Hammonton High School and his

During the classroom portion of New Jersey’s two- part Teens and Trucks Safety Awareness Event, teens learned about the dangers of distracted driving.

Approximately 1,471 teens participated in the Teens and Trucks program at Hammonton High School in New Jersey as part of Operation Safe Driver Week 2014.

Teens were given the opportunity to experience what it’s like in the driver’s seat of a large truck.

Passenger vehicles and motorcycles were placed in Teens signed a poster board pledging not to text while behind the wheel. In fact, the students ﬁlled both sides blind spots to demonstrate the locations of the of the board with their signatures. truck’s “No Zones.”

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The physics of crashes, a science lesson in safety By BRIAN IANIERI, Staff Writer | Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 2:26 pm

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Cars twisted like accordions, tire marks scorched in asphalt on Atlantic County roads.

Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion demonstrate just how devastating motor vehicle accidents can be.

But for teenagers in South Jersey schools, they are offering a unique perspective on applications of mathematics and physics — and a big dose of the CRASH SCIENCE importance of wearing seat belts. Traffic Safety Specialist Robert Clarke, of Bob Clarke, a traffic safety specialist for the South Galloway Township, explains to students at Jersey Transportation Planning Organization and a Assumption Regional Catholic School in retired crash investigator with the Atlantic City Galloway Township, how the laws of Police Department, spoke Tuesday to an eighth- physics are used in crash science. grade physical science class at Assumption Regional Catholic School in Galloway Township.

He gives versions of a presentation merging applied physics and traffic safety to middle and high schools throughout Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem counties.

What makes this presentation poignant is Clarke used examples from real-life crashes in Atlantic County, avoiding the graphic elements but letting pictures of the mangled cars and cracked windshields speak volumes about the forces at play.

Clarke said there have been more than 7,700 deaths on New Jersey highways since March 2003.

“Teens, this generation we’re teaching right now, came home in car seats. They’ve been all about safety. Yet the number one killer in car crashes is they’re not wearing seat belts,” he said.

Professionally, Clarke has spent years investigating crashes.

As he told students: “Do people tell us the exact truth in car crashes? Not exactly. Not everybody’s truthful in car crashes.”

Eyewitness accounts can be unreliable. So piecing together what happened becomes a scientific process.

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“If you have a puzzle in front of you with 1,000 pieces, how are you going to solve it? You put it together from the outside and work your way in. We put the puzzle pieces together using physics,” he said.

Teacher Sheryl Cordivari said teaching students about Newton’s laws, inertia and the science behind how seat belts and airbags save lives helps prepare them for problem solving in real life.

“I go over the equations in class … I think this helps show them that what I’m teaching them is not just to make their lives difficult and drive them crazy, but to show them this is real and has a real-life applications,” she said.

The class recently finished going over Newton’s laws, such as: An object in motion stays in motion until acted on by another force. The Vineland-based South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization was formerly known as the South Jersey Traffic Safety Alliance.

Today, Clarke told the eighth-grade students, many of whom are several years away from getting drivers’ licenses, that nearly all crashes are the fault of humans.

“It only takes less than a second to change a lifetime,” he said.

“My message is make sure you wear your seat belt. A lot of people say you’ll get a ticket. No, this is why it’s going to save your life and how it’s going to save your life — through physics,” he said.

Although high speeds can be a factor in many accidents, even crashes at 40 mph are extremely dangerous.

“Driving at 40 miles per hour, does it feel dangerous?” he asked the students. “But would you jump off a five-story building?”

The speeds at impact are similar, he said.

Student Bryanna Mastro, 13, of Galloway Township, said she found the presentation interesting.

“I never realizing going 40 miles per hour could be that very bad a car crash. It’s kind of scary,” she said.

Contact Brian Ianieri:

609-272-7253

[email protected]

@BIanieri on Twitter

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/absecon_galloway_port-republic/the-physi... 3/4/2015 SJTPO FY 2015 LOCAL LEAD PROJECT STATUS

Funding Cost (millions) CED/ECE Preliminary PS&E Final PS&E DB Number Project Name Phase Notes Source Programmed Submitted Approved Submitted Submitted Atlantic County Brigantine Blvd. (CR 638), Sec. 1A, Repaving Received Estimated S0913 TTF CON $1.320 12/30/2013 Estimated 4/1/2015 In-House Design authorized in FY 14 for $0.066 7/23/2014 4/1/2014 5/1/2015 Estimated S0914 TTF Brigantine Blvd. (CR 638), Sec. 1B, Repaving DES $0.050 2/27/2014 Mays Landing Road (Route 73), S1413 TTF DES $0.050 1/13/2015 Route 54 (Twelfth Street) to Sherry Lane Wellington Ave and West End Ave (CR 629), Repaving, Received Estimated S1401 TTF CON $0.800 1/3/2014 Estimated 4/1/2015 In-House Design authorized in FY 14 for $0.074 7/23/2014 Dorset Avenue to Albany Avenue 4/1/2014 5/1/2015

Atlantic City Received support of SJTPO Policy Board 9/22/2014; X065 CMAQ Atlantic City Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Conversion Project - Phase 3 CON $0.070 10/27/2014 11/13/2014 considering use of State contract for purchase of vehicles; anticipated authorization in April 2015

Cape May County Commonwealth Avenue (CR 619), Estimated CED covers larger project length than $1.3M, entire length S1411 STP-SJ CON $1.300 3/6/2015 Estimated 5/1/2015 Polk Avenue (paper street) to Corsons Inlet Bridge 7/1/2015 $3.4M but can be reduced to match funding

Cumberland County

Estimated Project includes Cedarville Road (CR 610), Resurfacing, S1303 TTF FY 2014 Federal Road Program CON $1.950 2/20/2014 5/27/2014 12/31/2014 3/30/2015 Center Grove Road (CR 629) to Main Street (Route 49)

Estimated S1204 TTF County Batch Design, Mill & Overlay Resurfacing Program CON $2.220 12/31/2014 1/29/2015 Estimated 3/20/2015 5/1/2015 Cumberland County Traffic Signal Improvements, Received support of SJTPO Policy Board 9/22/2014; RFP to be X065 CMAQ CR 552 (Irving Avenue) & CR 606 (Laurel Street) and DES $0.100 12/31/2014 sent to NJDOT for review anticipated 3/30/2015; anticipated CR 697 (Atlantic Street) & CR 731 (Commerce Street) authorization in June 2015 Construction of Centerline Rumble Strips Presented to Local Safety Program Technical Review Estimated 04314 HSIP CON $1.100 12/31/2014 Committee 1/29, County to send revised list of roadways 3/30/2015 by 3/30/2015

City of Vineland Landis Avenue, Mill & Overlay, Phase II, Estimated Consultant lead Design authorized in FY 14 for $1.400 S1123 STP-SJ CON $0.989 5/23/2012 6/28/2012 Estimated 3/20/2015 Boulevards to West Avenue 7/1/2015 9/11/2014 Landis Avenue, Mill & Overlay, Phase III & IV, Cost proposal submission anticipated 1/15/2014; RFP reviewed S1122 STP-SJ DES $0.100 2/6/2015 West Avenue to Coney Avenue by NJDOT, comments received 3/11/2015, RFP to be released City of Vineland - Landis Avenue Signal Upgrades Phase I, Estimated X065 CMAQ CON $1.750 3/13/2015 Estimated 7/20/15 Received support of SJTPO Policy Board 9/22/2014 Boulevards to Mrytle Street 8/3/15 Presented before Local Safety Program Technical Review Garden Road & Mill Road Traffic Signalization Estimated Estimated Estimated 04314 HSIP ROW $0.250 Committee Approval January 29th, pending 3/18/2015 6/22/2015 7/21/2015 reconsideration by NJDOT Traffic Data & Safety

Salem County Woodstown Road (CR 603) Resurfacing, Estimated S1113 TTF CON $1.220 3/18/2014 4/24/2014 Estimated 3/1/2015 In-House Design authorized in FY 14 for $0.100 7/31/2014 Commissioners Pike (CR 581) to Brickyard Road 5/1/2015 Salem County Mill & Overlay Resurfacing Program Estimated S1501 TTF DES $0.100 Cost proposal submission anticipated 4/1/2015 3/1/2015 Cohansey-Friesburg Road (CR 635) Resurfacing, Estimated S1115 TTF CON $1.000 3/18/2014 5/23/2014 Estimated 3/1/2015 In-House Design authorized in FY 14 for $0.103 7/31/2014 Cumberland County Line to Watsons Mill Road (CR 672) 5/1/2015 Presented before Local Safety Program Technical Review Center Line Rumble Strip Installation Estimated 04314 HSIP CON $0.243 2/13/2015 Estimated 4/1/2015 Committee Approval January 29th; Recommended by 5/15/2015 NJDOT Traffic Data & Safety for HSIP funding Total $14.612

Cost (millions) FY 2014 Deadlines: Final PS&E submission Programmed Apportionment * Balance Carry Over TTF funded projects - May 1, 2015 TTF $8.710 $7.500 $2.139 $9.639 Federal projects - July 1, 2015 STP-SJ $2.389 $2.390 -- $2.390 CMAQ $1.920 $1.900 -- $1.900 HSIP $1.593 $2.000 -- $2.000 16-Mar * excludes Metropolitan Planning (X30A)

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DBNUM SPONSOR SECTION FUND PHASE 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 FY14-23 TTF DES 0.066 0.066 S0913 Brigantine Blvd. (CR 638), Sec. 1A, Repaving TTF CON 1.320 1.320 TTF DES 0.050 0.050 S0914 Brigantine Blvd. (CR 638), Sec. 1B, Repaving TTF CON 1.500 1.500 S0916 Landis Avenue (CR 540), Tuckahoe Rd. to Cumberland County Line, Repaving TTF CON 1.800 1.800 TTF DES 0.050 0.050 S1413 Mays Landing Road (Route 73), Route 54 (Twelfth Street) to Sherry Lane TTF CON 1.000 1.000 Atlantic TTF DES 0.074 0.074 S1401 Wellington Ave and West End Ave (CR 629), Dorset Avenue to Albany Avenue, Repaving TTF CON 0.800 0.800 S1409 Mill Road (CR 662), CR 559A (Ocean Heights Avenue) to CR 684 (Spruce Avenue) TTF CON 1.700 1.700 S1410 Eleventh Avenue (CR 669), Municipal Border to Route 50 (Broad Street) TTF CON 1.700 1.700 S1412 Blue Anchor Road (Route 73), Route 322 to Route 54 (Twelfth Street) TTF CON 1.500 1.500 S1109 Maryland Avenue, Resurfacing, Route 87 to Pacific Avenue TTF CON 1.077 1.077 TTF DES 0.050 0.050 S1408 City Atlantic Avenue, Connecticut Avenue to Maine Avenue Atlantic TTF CON 1.110 1.110 S0902 Corsons Tavern Road (CR 628), Resurfacing STP-SJ CON 1.723 1.723 S1004 Corsons Tavern Road (CR 628), Resurfacing, Rt 550 to Rt 9 Upper Township STP-SJ CON 1.682 1.682 S1411 Commonwealth Avenue (CR 619), Polk Avenue (paper street) to Corsons Inlet Bridge STP-SJ CON 1.300 1.300 S1414 Rio-Grande Avenue (Route 47), Park Boulevard to George Redding Bridge STP-SJ CON 1.712 1.712 Cape MayCape S1110 New Jersey Avenue, Youngs Avenue to 26th Street, Resurfacing STP-SJ CON 2.020 ** 2.020 S1403 Cumberland County Federal Road Program TTF CON 2.250 2.000 1.900 6.150

S1204 County Batch Design, Mill & Overlay Resurfacing Program TTF CON 2.220 2.220

S1303 Cumberland FY 2014 Federal Road Program TTF CON 1.950 1.950 S0803 Landis Avenue, Mill & Overlay, Myrtle Street to Boulevards, Phase I STP-SJ CON 1.084 * 1.084 S1123 Landis Avenue, Mill & Overlay, Boulevards to West Ave., Phase II STP-SJ CON 0.989 0.989 S1122 Landis Avenue, Mill & Overlay, West Ave. to Coney Ave. Phase III & IV STP-SJ DES 0.100 0.100 S1122 Landis Avenue, Mill & Overlay, West Ave. to Coney Ave. Phase III STP-SJ CON 0.670 0.670 S1124 Landis Avenue, Mill & Overlay, Moyer St. to Orchard Rd., Phase IV STP-SJ CON 0.609 0.609

City of Vineland STP-SJ DES 0.050 0.050 S1407 Route 56 (Landis Avenue), Mill & Overlay, Mill Rd to Orchard Rd., Phase V STP-SJ CON 0.700 0.700 S0610 Commissioners Pike (CR 581). Woodstown-Daretown Road to Route 40, Phase IV TTF CON 1.000 1.000 TTF DES 0.100 0.100 S1113 Woodstown Road (CR 603) Resurfacing, Commissioners Pike (CR 581) to Brickyard Road TTF CON 1.220 1.220 S1042 Elmer-Shirley Rd (CR 611), Route 77 to Mil Road Resurfacing Project TTF CON 1.000 1.000 Cohansey-Friesburg Road (CR 635) Resurfacing, Cumberland County Line to Watsons Mill Road (CR TTF DES 0.100 0.100 S1115 672)

Salem TTF CON 1.000 1.000 TTF DES 0.050 0.050 S1406 Hook Road (CR 551), East Pittsfield Street to Route 295 Northbound TTF CON 1.500 1.500 TTF DES 0.100 0.100 0.200 S1501 Salem County Mill & Overlay Resurfacing Program TTF CON 1.600 1.800 3.400 X30A Various Metropolitan Planning STP-SJ PLS 0.265 0.258 0.265 0.265 0.265 0.265 0.265 0.265 0.265 0.265 2.643 Total STP-SJ programmed Amount, including X30A FHWA: STP-SJ 3.369 2.647 2.647 2.647 2.647 0.265 0.265 0.265 0.265 0.265 12.639 Total TTF programmed Amount State: TTF 7.167 6.760 6.500 6.660 5.100 1.500 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 33.687 STP-SJ Apportionment, including X30A FHWA: STP-SJ 2.382 2.647 2.647 2.647 2.647 9.882 9.882 9.882 9.882 9.882 62.380 SJTPO Transportation Trust Fund Apportionment State: TTF 7.500 7.500 7.500 7.500 7.500 37.500 X065 ** Funding from Unobligated CMAQ Line Item 0.452 0.452 X065 * Funding from CMAQ Line Item (City of Bridgeton project lost) 0.300 0.300

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