Essex Commissioners Attach Safety Strings to Bloomfield Bus Stop Removal
Board of County Commissioners (Video) • Essex CountyJuly 15, 2026
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Essex County commissioners spent much of their July 15, 2026, meeting on street safety. They broke with routine deference to towns and attached a traffic-calming review to Bloomfield's request to remove a Broad Street bus stop. The board also approved a federally funded signal redesign, advanced roughly $47.5M in capital projects and expanded shelter capacity by 365 beds.
- Bloomfield bus stop removal approved 5-1 with a new traffic-calming review condition; Commissioner Wayne L. Richardson dissented
- $737,000 federally funded signal redesign prompts calls for Vision Zero design as the county leads the state in traffic deaths
- $40M Verona storage facility and $7.5M Cody Arena HVAC overhaul advance; a GOP candidate questions the storage math
- $16.8M shelter contract adds 365 beds, and Essex joins a state Code Red heat-relief pilot
The basics: Resolution 49 consents to a Township of Bloomfield ordinance deleting a bus stop on Broad Street, a county road, near Carroll Place. Staff indicated the county has historically always agreed to such township requests.
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