92.7 WOBM » highways http://wobm.com Ocean County's Hometown Station! Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:44:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 DOT Crews Put The Garden Back In The Garden State [AUDIO] http://wobm.com/dot-crews-put-the-garden-back-in-the-garden-state-audio/ http://wobm.com/dot-crews-put-the-garden-back-in-the-garden-state-audio/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:11:34 +0000 Kelly Waldron http://nj1015.com/?p=240264 For the past three years, cleaning up litter from New Jersey's roadways has been a top priority of the Department of Transportation, but when Sandy hit, crews were needed elsewhere. Now that most of their Sandy duties are completed, they can refocus on litter clean up along the state's highways.

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]]> http://wobm.com/dot-crews-put-the-garden-back-in-the-garden-state-audio/feed/ 0 Flickr User Familymwr Do New Jersey's Highway Safety Laws Stack Up? [AUDIO] http://wobm.com/do-new-jerseys-highway-safety-laws-stack-up-audio/ http://wobm.com/do-new-jerseys-highway-safety-laws-stack-up-audio/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:27:06 +0000 Kelly Waldron http://nj1015.com/?p=218706 When it comes to highway safety, New Jersey made some important strides in the past year in many areas, but there is still work to do.

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]]> http://wobm.com/do-new-jerseys-highway-safety-laws-stack-up-audio/feed/ 0 Garden State Parkway at exit 129 (Rout 440/I-287) (NJ DOT) My Least Favorite Intersection in Ocean County http://wobm.com/my-least-favorite-intersection-in-ocean-county/ http://wobm.com/my-least-favorite-intersection-in-ocean-county/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:05:30 +0000 Justin Louis http://wobm.com/?p=72235 As you've probably noticed by now, I love to complain about driving. I don't know what it is, maybe I do in fact have mild road rage, but few things get my blood pressure up like being annoyed in the car. That being said, we have some truly terrible intersections in Ocean County.

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]]> http://wobm.com/my-least-favorite-intersection-in-ocean-county/feed/ 0 Flickr user Clean Wal-Mart The Irritation of Rubbernecking http://wobm.com/the-wrongness-of-rubbernecking/ http://wobm.com/the-wrongness-of-rubbernecking/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:30:31 +0000 Justin Louis http://wobm.com/?p=60033 I'll be the first to admit that I tend to rant a lot about cars here at wobm.com (especially after last week's article about "left lane campers"). Yesterday I was driving up to my mother's house on the Parkway and I feel like I saw everything; left lane campers, speeders, tailgaters, and the dreaded collection of rubberneckers.

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]]> http://wobm.com/the-wrongness-of-rubbernecking/feed/ 0 Flickr user nSeika Are You a "Left Lane Camper"? The Fine Could Jump by 100% or More [Poll] http://wobm.com/are-you-a-left-lane-camper-the-fine-could-jump-by-100-or-more/ http://wobm.com/are-you-a-left-lane-camper-the-fine-could-jump-by-100-or-more/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:35:38 +0000 Justin Louis http://wobm.com/?p=57804 Here's the scenario - you're on your way to work, traffic is crowded but not terrible. Traffic in the middle and right lanes of the Garden State Parkway is bunching up so you get into the left lane to pass the crowd. Suddenly you come up on a vehicle in the "passing lane" taking their sweet time and you have to slow way down. You have just encountered a "left lane camper" (and I'm using the polite name here).

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