The City of Hoboken's Grand Street Complete Streets Pilot between Third and Eighth Streets aims to enhance safety, mobility, and accessibility for all who travel along the corridor.
The pilot introduces key Vision Zero improvements, including a new protected bike lane, high-visibility crosswalks, curb extensions, and upgraded ADA ramps while testing new curbside management strategies to reduce double parking on the residential street.
The project will test whether delineated parking spaces improve parking compliance and availability and adds bike parking in daylighting areas. It also includes green infrastructure. Combined, these components aim to create a safer, more efficient, and sustainable Grand Street.
Over the next year, the City will monitor the street through data collection and gather community feedback to direct adjustments and help determine whether to make the improvements permanent.
This pilot project comes after the Hoboken Water Utility and Veolia replaced drinking water infrastructure underground to improve service reliability.
The City of Hoboken's Grand Street Complete Streets Pilot between Third and Eighth Streets aims to enhance safety, mobility, and accessibility for all who travel along the corridor.
The pilot introduces key Vision Zero improvements, including a new protected bike lane, high-visibility crosswalks, curb extensions, and upgraded ADA ramps while testing new curbside management strategies to reduce double parking on the residential street.
The project will test whether delineated parking spaces improve parking compliance and availability and adds bike parking in daylighting areas. It also includes green infrastructure. Combined, these components aim to create a safer, more efficient, and sustainable Grand Street.
Over the next year, the City will monitor the street through data collection and gather community feedback to direct adjustments and help determine whether to make the improvements permanent.
This pilot project comes after the Hoboken Water Utility and Veolia replaced drinking water infrastructure underground to improve service reliability.
The Grand Street Complete Streets Pilot is a comprehensive redesign of Grand Street between Third Street and Eighth Street. It aims to improve safety, mobility, and accessibility as part of Hoboken’s Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.
The pilot is scheduled to begin on or about November 10, following milling and paving operations taking place the week of Oct. 27.
The pilot aims to:
The project includes:
The protected bike lane improves safety for cyclists and connects to nearby existing bike lanes.
Additionally:
The City will delineate parking spaces to make on-street parking more predictable and organized. Additionally, thanks to Hoboken’s upgraded street cleaning equipment, the City’s compact sweeper can clean the curb lane without requiring parked vehicles to move. This will allow the City to pilot a new schedule in which, residents parked on the east (protected bike lane) side of Grand Street will no longer need to move their cars every Thursday between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. for street cleaning.
The pilot will not add new loading zones to the corridor but rather improve visibility of existing loading zones through high visibility striping and improved signage in order to increase utilization and better reduce double parking, ease congestion, and improve traffic flow along Grand Street.
This initiative builds on Hoboken’s commitment to Vision Zero and sustainable street design. By prioritizing safety and smarter curb management, the pilot supports:
Earlier this year, the City:
The pilot will run for approximately one year. During that time, the City will:
Yes. Starting the week of Oct. 27, community members should expect temporary impacts to traffic and parking as milling, paving, striping, delineator installations, and bike parking installations begin. Weekly construction impacts can be found online at www.hobokennj.gov/construction.
