It's in Southern Monmouth County. It's a highway with a circle dumping into it and a really popular shopping center entrance and exit clogging it up. Try getting your car across this nightmare. Can you guess where I'm talking about?

It's Rt. 35 in Sea Girt  where you have the very popular Brooke 35 shopping center on the northbound side (Starbucks, Williams-Sonoma, Gap, etc) and the Staples shopping center and Turning Point shopping center (among other popular strip malls) on the southbound side.

The Manasquan Circle dumps a crapload of cars on one end. Whether you're heading towards Spring Lake or towards Brick, most times of day this roadway is jammed....with a suicide lane in the middle just for fun.

Whether it's morning or evening rush hour, whether it's raining or sunny, or even if it's the middle of the day and you think surely it won't be too hard to get around, there is way too much congestion on this stretch of highway.

And once the tourists arrive for the summer, watch out!

I have to navigate this stretch several times a week. I frequent the Foodtown shopping center stores,  Starbucks and some of the Brooke 35 stores, and spend a lot of time at Staples due to school projects for the boys. I also use the circle to get to places on Atlantic Avenue in both Manasquan and Wall.

If I need to get across the highway coming out of Brooke 35 to head back to Point Pleasant Beach, I will frequently give up after five or so long minutes of trying to get across and instead make a right turn and go all the way down to rt. 71 to backtrack to where I need to go.

If I am coming off the circle heading toward Staples and I have to get in the middle lane to turn left, I feel like I am taking my life in my hands.

If I am in a huge rush to get anywhere, I'd rather hop on Rt. 34 to get around that mess than deal with Rt. 35. On days where I have to get from Point Beach to Belmar, I usually take Rt. 34 to Allenwood Road and over to 138, or go that way to hop on Rt. 18 if I am heading further north.

I'm not sure what the solution would be, and I know no one wants to deal with more traffic lights, but maybe if they made just one entrance/exit for Brooke 35 (instead of two) and put a traffic light there, it might make it easier to get across. But I am no engineer, just a driver that occasionally needs to vent.

 

 

 

 

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