Route 35 to Reopen in Mantoloking, With Limitations
Vehicles will be subject to random security checks
The stretch of Route 35 in Mantoloking will reopen to motorists Feb. 1 at 7:30 a.m.
Since Superstorm Sandy struck, the portion of the state highway in the small borough has been closed off, even as others towns opened their sections of the roadway.
Until Feb. 1, motorists will still need a borough resident pass to access the highway north of Herbert Street, the turnoff which leads to the Mantoloking Bridge in neighboring Brick Township. But traffic will be allowed 24 hours a day after the official reopening time.
The reopening of the highway will come with some restrictions.
Motorists will be prohibited from accessing side streets within Mantoloking, as well as the borough's beachfront. Likewise, motorists will be barred from parking on any side street.
"No sightseeing is permitted," an announcement from the township released Wednesday said.
Contractors working in Mantoloking will still need a pass, and may only work from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Residents who wish to access their homes need a pass as well, and must stay on their properties only.
Finally, the announcement said, all persons and vehicles are subject to random seucurity checks "to ensure compliance of the rules and to prevent looting and other violations."
jack cee
3:16 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Excellent!!!!!
they can do that
3:23 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
I guess since the state troopers have been at the checkpoints no wonder there are always mantoloking police cars driving in point pleasant beach. Oh wait, that occurs year round.
Beach Orphan
6:01 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The reason that Mantoloking police cars drive in Point Pleasant Beach is because that is where they re-fuel, that is where cars that are impounded are towed and that is where they get their cars serviced.
A Resident
11:41 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Mantoloking has also been holding their council meetings in Pt Beach which explains another time the cars are there.
JerseyGirl
3:26 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
About time!
Chief Wahoo
3:39 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Do not give up your rights by agreeing to any random security checks.
clamdigger
4:16 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
the gestapo will be watching and waiting. "Papers. Ve vant to see your papers"
Gary Therien
4:23 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Absolutely right Chief, just another sham to trample the few rights we have left.
JIM THORNLEY
12:47 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Get real people. Don't drive that way if it is a problem for you. It's all about protecting peoples property.
pam ulrich
4:38 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Awesome!
irish gran
4:40 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
its about time why should are cars be checked when we are just trying to use the road as an easier access to work i could care less about another persons contents of their homes i lost part of my home and i along with alot of others have to move forward we have no choice they do not want anyone on their beaches or driving through their town enough already just be thankful you have your life's and your family just to go off the subjust think about our troops protecting our country and putting their life' on the line for us also the tradegy in sandy hook all the parents left without a child and family left without loved ones they must go on with their life"s so the hech with your valuable"s they can be replaced a person life cannot well carry on
youngmodern
7:23 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Well Gran, most people are just trying to use the road for access to a normal destination, but this does not change the very real fact that many people have looted. It is tragic that people take advantage in these desperate times, but it is disparaging to the hurricane victims who have already lost so much to write them off by saying, "Who cares if someone steals what little you have left!"
Av
5:16 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Oh yeah access to more bars!!!
Daniel Nee
6:05 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The bars are all to the south anyway, which is already open. ;)
Wayne L
6:31 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Well said Irish Gran!!Why people will continue to put material objects before human lives is horrible! I live in Point Pleasant and the percentage of people living in those houses on the off season is so little. If your stupid enough to leave something of major value or even better if your home didn't have a top of the line security system than you were foolish. It's always been very quiet there normally with very little need for serious police help so now they have something to do....
youngmodern
7:25 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wayne, just because someone wants to hold onto their belongings does not mean they give them greater value than human life. Can you not have appreciation for both simultaneously? And it doesn't matter how "top of the line" your home security system was if entire walls were washed away.
Cade
10:40 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
I believe some people may have missed the news...following the hurricane there were multiple reports and even some caught on video of people in boats crossing the bay looting homes. and just because people want to save what little they have left doesn't mean they have no regard for human life. and sorry we can't all afford top of the line security systems, and what good would they do for those still without power anyway?...a lot of people lost everything or close to it. is it such a horrible thing to want to protect the little that's left from thieving scumbags?
John Q
8:30 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Youngmodern you say "many people have looted" First of all what do you consider "many"? I have not seen one report of looting in papers There might have been 1 or 2 arrest but I have not heard it reported.
JG
10:52 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Oh dear youngmodern left to defend rational thinking and common sense while dueling with the idiotic comments of those who don't have a clue... John Q are you SERIOUS? Looting occurs when no one is there. Who is going to report it when all the surrounding homes are also abandoned?? The 1st days following the hurricane there was so much looting up and down the coast more National Guard had to be brought in ... wave runners, motorboats and even rowboats were pulling up to abandoned homes in Bayville and many other towns just raiding one home after the other. Residents had to sleep in their vehicles - headlights on and rifles ready to run off looters who thrive on other's misfortunes. Does anyone listen to, watch or read anything other than what happens in their own town? You honestly believe the Mantoloking homes will be protected because they think they are better than others and that this is a "class thing"? It is one of the few times during this tragedy that law enforcement has some sort of control to do their job - which is to serve and protect. Better to protect lives than possessions, of course; but to say there has been no looting - or that these folks don't deserve to have the same protection for their homes that everyone WOULD HAVE HAD but for the unfortunate circumstances that made it impossible, is ridiculous. I agree we all need to move on Gran, but maybe this gives the police some sense of returning to normalcy. I agree with David, marie & youngmodern.
A Resident
11:45 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
"The 1st days following the hurricane there was so much looting up and down the coast more National Guard had to be brought in ... wave runners, motorboats and even rowboats were pulling up to abandoned homes in Bayville and many other towns just raiding one home after the other. Residents had to sleep in their vehicles - headlights on and rifles ready to run off looters who thrive on other's misfortunes. Does anyone listen to, watch or read anything other than what happens in their own town?"
There are many stories about such things....but very few facts to back any of them up. Hearsay is a bad thing to rely on. National Guard was brought in...but not in response to looting.
KC
12:51 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Looting DID occur. I think you missed reports. I made the conscious decision to remain in my home during the storm that followed Sandy (although evacuation had been suggested, but not mandated) based on the fact that looting had been reported.
shore family
8:35 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
I'm willing to bet that as soon as more media posts this road is opening going north, there will be more visitors. Will be curious to see how many non-NJ plates will be stopped. Actually, you really can't stop on a side street. A lot of them have concrete barriers to protect people from going down side streets while construction cranes are cleaning up. There's still a lot of damage.
David Daur
8:35 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
A lot of good a "top of the line" security system would do when there hasn't been power for months since Sandy knocked it out. Just curious how the security system would be activated without electricity and notify the proper authorities? It's a shame that somebody pee'd in Wayne's gene pool. What a bunch of buffoons who post comments!
marie
9:11 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Most people are just commuting on route 35, having said that since I have been back I am shocked the amount of people taking pictures of homes that are destroyed. I live on a street with 6 homes out of 11 on the ocean to come down. People drive in with a barricade up and walk up the 30 ft dunes and have walked into exposed homes to take pictures. Why?.. I hate it and police can't be everywhere. Common sense goes a long way our island is now a construction site, and we need to give these crews the right of way. I know we all love the beach that's why we live here. However, the infrastructure needs to be restored and the time will come when this highway can handle the burden of commuters, construction and visitors. Right now though residents and commuters should be the only parties on these roads because they have to be. I personally prefer not to look at anything it's too sad!
KC
12:54 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Some people may be interested in documenting this awful disaster, Marie.
Laura
5:17 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
If the road is passable, which it seems it is, why should anyone who is not breaking the law be barred from using it? We all paid for it. I have been using the Ocean Route since I was old enough to drive. I'm not a looter, a looky-loo or a commuter. I like taking what I used to call the scenic route to Toms River. It will be sad to drive it now but it would still beat driving on Brick Boulevard. It's not a private road.
PJ Ortley
9:11 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Thank you for opening the road, but please keep up tight security. We don't need the gawkers in these desperate times and -- unfortunately -- there is scum on this earth that will rob us of what we have left if given the chance.
Av
9:12 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
I'm gonna go on the first and tool around with a cooler full of cold ones!!!
Mrs. G.
9:19 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
There are many other communities that have had to leave their homes and things without any security. Is everyone on the Jersey shore being treated fairly?
Peg Born
5:07 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Point Pleasant Beach had the section east of the tracks opened up the Thursday after Sandy. That entire section of town was without power for almost 3 weeks. Every Tom, Dick and Harry was in that section of town with their pick-up trucks picking thru the garbage, you had a ton of out of town people roaming the streets, boardwalks and then God knows what else at night when half of town was in complete darkness. From what I read, Mantaloking was under such wonderful care by the National Guard because their Officer of Emergency Mang. immediately reached out and asked for help. The Mantaloking officals worked quickly to get protection from the NG. My point is, if your town asked for help, it seems to me that would have gotten it. I can understand why residents of other towns feel like they are getting special treatment -- is it because they are a wealthier town than others? Or is it just that other towns didn't have the same concerns for looting, etc in the areas that were affected. Net, Net -- I feel for all the Mantaloking residents, I haven't been there but my husband has been working on many homes there and says it really is a war zone. Rich, poor, seasonal or year round -- everyone at some point has suffered and I pray they soon find some peace for them and their families.
JG
10:54 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
I also think that random security checks are appropriate right now ... The commuters and the people who are working on the homes until dark or who will be returning soon will be safer this way - who knows what out of town loon might wander down the shore to cause the type of havoc seen in Connecticut or elsewhere? No one is trying to infringe on our civil rights - it's just a temporary precaution.
John Q
6:04 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
So looting occurred that nobody knows about or was arrested Call ocean county prosecutors office I did.
JG
8:01 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
"There are many stories about such things....but very few facts to back any of them up. Hearsay is a bad thing to rely on. National Guard was brought in...but not in response to looting."
I am a resident as well and I said MORE National Guard had to be brought in, not THE. And I believe that is true.
Also, there is a 1500 character limit so I had to edit and in one of those edits I shortened my original sentence from: "I lived in Bayville on the water and am personally friends with people who slept on their property in their vehicles with their headlights pointed towards their homes and rifles cocked, ready to run off looters who tried to enter homes near the marinas from the flood waters of the bay, with intentions of thriving on other's misfortunes." => to the shorter version now posted.
And in a few days National Guardsmen AND Police were set up in the same spots my friends had been positioned. If these are the same National Guard that were placed in Seaside, etc., who, in addition to aiding anyone who was homeless or hurt also made it their business to thwart violence, vandalism and looting on the Barrier Islands, then I apologize. It is possible NG were used for double duty - I have no way of knowing that. But I do know what their uniforms look like.
This is not "Hearsay", this is fact.
Everyone have a GREAT DAY and let's be happy the Rt 35 roadway will be opening soon!
A Resident
10:51 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
NG was brought in so regular police could go back to their normal duties and reduce the amount of overtime. NG handled traffic control, the very "iffy" security checks to enter some areas. They were not patrolling.
Vinny G
8:07 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Are people really still worried about looters still??? Enough already. A good percentage of the homes in that town (as well as many others) are seasonal homes. Meaning....they are normally VACANT this time of year. Yet we don't close the roads to prevent looters in the off season do we??? Your houses and belongings are probably safer now with all the activity down there. And truth be told, (I've been there several times), with so much destruction, theres really not much to loot anyway.
Cade
11:04 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
my neighborhood is mostly year round residents with everything they own in their home. andthere'sstill plenty in them being only the first floors and lower houses were damaged. oneof my neighbors is a state trooper and I was told that to his knowledge they arrested over 20 people in my town alone and those are the ones they caught. and they are still constantly chasing people out who don't belong there...not everyone that has a house there is a summer home, we've had our lives shredded apart, living off donations and temporary housing with kids and families...my family of five (3 kids) have been living at the red roof in since the hurricane beingthe first floor of our home has to be reconstituted as well as all the electrical components...we can't bring everything we own to the hotel...so I for one am glad the police are doing what they can to protect what's left. sorry if it's a slight inconvenience for people for the police to make sure you belong there...the ones complaining about it are probably the ones who we need the protection against as I'd say anyone who lives in the area wouldn't mind a slight inconvenience to protect what's left...it's not like they're saying you can't be there they just want to know you have a reason to be there
Laura
5:29 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I have no problem with them stopping anyone to ensure they are not doing anything illegal. It's rather tiring to keep hearing some on hear complain about another right being taken away from them. If you aren't doing anything wrong....
John Q
11:15 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
2013 Crime (Projected Data)* Brick NJ
Incidents Aggravated Assault 76 Arson 10 Burglary 343 Forcible Rape 9 Larceny and Theft 1,114 Motor Vehicle Theft 38 Murder and Manslaughter 1 Robbery 26 Crime Rate (Total Incidents) 1,587 Property Crime 1,497 Violent Crime 112
There are 5 property crimes a day without a storm JG I wonder if the crime rate might actually go down.
Martin
12:14 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Who projects crimes ("projected data") for 2013? Did it predict who will be murdered this year?
John Q
3:39 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Almost the same as 2012
Laura
5:30 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Projected data= Guess work
anthony esposito
12:57 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Its about time. The Elitist population of Mantoloking succeeded in Highjacking less than a mile stretch of State Highway for over a month. I am unaware of the official arrest count of people for looting or other crimes committed in this town of lesst than 600 people. This closing inconvienced thousands of taxpaying citizens of the State for the benefit of the rich and famous. A complete disgrace in light of the hardship that so many of our citizens have endured and continue to endure
Margo Joan Borys Salvato
5:35 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I live in brick and I often use 35 to get from place to place.......it has been a pain in the A$$ to have the road closed.......but it is not only for the protection of the wealthy resident's possessions ..........it was for our safety. Chunks of road were missing, displaced houses were being moved as well as excessive amounts of debris.......there was fear of gas line breaks and fires...........get real and stop being the little kid crying "he got 2 lollipops and I only got 1!" It was miserable, it is over, the road is open.......be thankful!
proudnot2bliberal
9:32 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
anthony GTFU many of the homes in mantoloking have been in the family for generations I know of several friends who HAD homes in Matoloking for 3+gererations going back 40+ years. Get off you butt & gov assistance & you too can get a hoem & stop living in moms basement. Mantoloking was hit as hard as ortely was .Id say about 90%+ of the homes on the beach are gone. SO where is the town going to make up that revene so you can keep collecting your oboma bucks & living off the backs of the working man?
RE A resident & John Q just do a goole check & you cna find out lots of cases of looting http://www.app.com/viewart/20121107/NJNEWS14/311070034/Pair-accused-looting-Waretown-homes you 2 are proof you cant fix stupid
Halpha2
2:10 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Yeah, we're in the Rockies !
Dan
10:45 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013
How come every time an article is posted on this site it just become an open forum of complaining and moaning. Trust me I'm over this whole situation just like anyone else. I'm still living at a friend's house waiting on my house to be rebuilt... but guess what I'm not complaining when the storm hit my wife, my dogs and I all escaped at the last moment and that's what matters not what road is open not who's doing what we're all alive! everyone is preaching Restore the Shore but all you're doing is complaining day after day ... go out and help some ... stop complaining on the internet