http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/27/new-jersey-community-to-fine-out-town-drivers-in-attempt-to-decrease-traffic.html

Apparently, the Borough of Leonia is "getting tough..."  on some drivers.  I gather they (drivers) are attempting to avoid the traffic snarls of the I-80/I-95 Rt. 4 merge by exiting at Exit 71 (Degraw Ave) and going up Fort Lee Rd. to the bridge..  I grew up in this area (in Englewood) so I'm very familiar. I used to get much of my takeout (Chicken/Pizza/Chinese) in Leonia on Broad Ave. Trust me, I do get why they want to do it. But do they really think they can get away with this... legally?

 

 

I work in Englewood.  My boss is in Leonia.  I just heard about this.  Seems like a legal challenge could come.  Soon.

“It’s a very extreme measure for very extreme traffic,” Rowe told The New York Times. “Would I prefer not to do this? Of course. But I would rather try something and fail than not try anything.” 

 

Well, Chief, I hope it proves to be a very, very expensive fail.

And when it comes election time, I hope there's hell to pay for those genius that came up with this.

 

That is not cool..that should be illegal..

It will fail. This was tried in Hightstown almost 20 years ago. A Princeton professor went there deliberately to get arrested. He did. He then turned to the ACLU and got a huge civil rights settlement for infringement on his rights to passage. They can do it until it’s challenged. At 200.00 it sure to be though. 

Is eighteen police officers in a town of 9200 kinda on the high side?   Maybe they didn’t have enough to do until they hatched this scheme.  

And isn't Leonia another north jersey democratic stronghold?  Kinda ironic for them to be trying to close the borders and keep out the outsiders. 

4 minutes ago, 10X said:

Is eighteen police officers in a town of 9200 kinda on the high side?   Maybe they didn’t have enough to do until they hatched this scheme.  

And isn't Leonia another north jersey democratic stronghold?  Kinda ironic for them to be trying to close the borders and keep out the outsiders. 

Yes, it is, kinda.... Let's put it this way.... for the sake of "symbolism..."  It's where Alan Alda lived and raised his daughters while in NJ. I should know... I went to HS with two of them.  It's also where Anthony Bourdain grew up.  And I went to the same school he did (and with his younger brother).

 

9 minutes ago, 10X said:

Is eighteen police officers in a town of 9200 kinda on the high side?   

Mine has 37 from chief all the way down for about 20k people. Must be some sort of union rule.

Take license plates off car and don't carry ID and.  You're not illegal, just undocumented.  Claim protection under NJ sanctuary laws.  

Would be very ironic if it's a sanctuary city enforcing the laws it's choosing to ignore for illegals on New Yorkers.

54 minutes ago, HBecwithFn7 said:

Yes, it is, kinda.... Let's put it this way.... for the sake of "symbolism..."  It's where Alan Alda lived and raised his daughters while in NJ. I should know... I went to HS with two of them.  It's also where Anthony Bourdain grew up.  And I went to the same school he did (and with his younger brother).

 

soooo....it's basically rich people thinking they're better than the rest of us?

that said.......they'll fail expensively at the taxpayers expense.

the lady that said she pleaded with drivers to let her outta her driveway? when road construction had traffic directed through my street.......i start edging out. i keep going, especially if it's an expensive car coming. they always stopped.

I hope there's at least one person who lives in the town who posts a quality picture of the yellow card online so that they can be copied and counterfeited. (Much like a picture I've seen of a proud mother holding her kid's first credit card.  Including the card number and date in the picture, clearly legible...)  I'd love to see 15,000 cars with yellow tags in the town that day...  Maybe have people hand them out just over the border in a neighboring town.

 

Also, I hope the town's instructions for placing them in a window is somehow illegal - something like tape it to your windshield, and other towns start giving those drivers (with the tags) obstructed view tickets.

8 hours ago, 1LtCAP said:

soooo....it's basically rich people thinking they're better than the rest of us?

that said.......they'll fail expensively at the taxpayers expense.

the lady that said she pleaded with drivers to let her outta her driveway? when road construction had traffic directed through my street.......i start edging out. i keep going, especially if it's an expensive car coming. they always stopped.

Not necessarily "rich..."  Not these days.... more like "upper/middle class..."  and more towards the "middle" than the "upper."  There's actually a heavy Asian influence in Leonia (Korean, in fact). The Japanese are in Ft. Lee and Edgewater. The "rich" town is nearby in "Englewood Cliffs."  There's also some "old money rich" in the City of Englewood, itself.

 

I want a tax refund if I can’t use a road my taxes paid for. After all it is only fair. 

I’d imagine immediately they cannot even attempt this on county roads that run through their town.  If I were up there I’d drive through intentionally.  In fact when the first law suit starts if they have a go fund me page I’ll donate.  This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard, can’t use the roads.

Bergen County is full of entitled scumbags

Democrat = Communist that is why they hire way too many police officers than is actually needed. They want to live in a police state and have the Gestapo.


They can't stop access to county roads.


They can't stop certain vehicle access period if the NJ Supreme Court ruling in Ocean Grove is applied to Leonia.




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