Highways deliver a lot of things, from people to packages, but township officials want a pending, major upgrade along Black Horse Pike to also deliver a message.
Possibly as soon as April, under the New Jersey Department of Transportation, a roughly $72.6 million construction project will start along the Pike. The “Route 42, Kennedy Avenue to Atlantic City Expressway Pavement Preservation Project” will last about three years.
When it’s done, Washington Township Mayor Laurie Burns says, she expects a new “visual presence,” in addition to better traffic flow and safety for drivers as well as the people from nearby neighborhoods who take risks walking across or along the Pike.