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		<title>Upcoming closings and detours announced for Route 52 project between Somers Point and Ocean City</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted Press of A.C.: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 ]]></description>
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<p>The New Jersey Department of Transportation has announced the following traffic information for the Route 52 causeway construction project connecting Somers Point and Ocean City.</p>
<p>Beginning Sept. 7, expanded construction activity will occur in the vicinity of the Somers Point Circle as part of the state Department of Transportation&#8217;s Route 52 project. The Somers Point traffic circle will be eliminated and a temporary traffic signal is expected to be installed before the end of September.</p>
<p>Beginning Sept. 15, the Intercoastal Waterway at the Route 52 causeway connecting Somers Point and Ocean City will be closed to all boats for approximately five days to allow for demolition of the bridge.</p>
<p>In early November a detour will be implemented for Shore Road in Somers Point, between New York Avenue and Gull Avenue to Bay Avenue. The detour will remain through completion of the permanent intersection improvements and the removal of the railroad bridge on Shore Road.</p>
<p>Construction updates are available on the NJDOT website: <a href="http://www.njcommuter.com/">www.njcommuter.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>White House Sub Shop to open second Atlantic City location at Trump Taj Mahal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next spring, after 64 years of business in one spot, the White House sub shop will become a chain.
The family owning the sandwich landmark in Atlantic City&#8217;s Ducktown section has agreed to lease space for a second location a mile and a half away in the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, both businesses announced Thursday.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_586" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/White_House_Subs.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-586" title="White_House_Sub_Shop_AC" src="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/White_House_Subs-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">White House Sub Shop in Atlantic City. (The Press of Atlantic City / Ben Fogletto) </p></div>
<p>Next spring, after 64 years of business in one spot, the White House sub shop will become a chain.</p>
<p>The family owning the sandwich landmark in Atlantic City&#8217;s Ducktown section has agreed to lease space for a second location a mile and a half away in the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, both businesses announced Thursday.</p>
<p>Husband and wife Brian and Mary Conley and her cousin, Genevieve Basile, members of the restaurant&#8217;s founding families, have owned White House at 2301 Arctic Ave. for six years. They&#8217;ve deflected other offers to open in casinos while they became familiar with the business, Brian Conley said.</p>
<p>&#8220;This just sounds like a good fit for us,&#8221; Conley said.</p>
<p>Conley expects to offer the same menu, with eat-in or take-out, and to open with some staff from the old. Conley said he didn&#8217;t know how the prices would compare: &#8220;The plan is to keep things as reasonable as possible.&#8221;</p>
<p>White House will be the hotel&#8217;s first locally based eatery, spokeswoman Mary Moyer said. It will replace the vacant Boardwalk Treats site in the second-floor shopping and dining area known as Spice Road.</p>
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		<title>Storm has mixed effects on southern New Jersey beaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By STEVEN LEMONGELLO Staff Writer &#124; Saturday, September 4, 2010
Saturday’s brilliant blue skies revealed little major damage to area beaches in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Earl, which was a hurricane when it passed by the New Jersey coast on Friday afternoon.
Most beach patrols reported minor erosion, if any, mostly damage to already eroded beaches.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_583" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Hurricane_AC_NJave.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-583" title="Hurricane Atlantic City New Jersey Ave" src="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Hurricane_AC_NJave-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Geotubes are exposed even more by the effects of former Hurricane Earl at New Jersey Avenue in Atlantic City on Saturday. Photo by: Anthony Smedile </p></div>
<p>By STEVEN LEMONGELLO Staff Writer | Saturday, September 4, 2010</p>
<p>Saturday’s brilliant blue skies revealed little major damage to area beaches in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Earl, which was a hurricane when it passed by the New Jersey coast on Friday afternoon.</p>
<p>Most beach patrols reported minor erosion, if any, mostly damage to already eroded beaches.</p>
<p>“We really dodged a bullet on this one,” said Brigantine Beach Patrol Chief Bob Guenther. “We anticipated a lot more flood tides and higher levels of water from tidal surges. But the tide was high by 3 p.m., and by 3:30 the tide had gone out. The wind helped, pushing the tide back out.”</p>
<p>“Things meshed together to keep barrier islands from being flooded out,” Guenther said.</p>
<p>At the surfing beach at New Jersey Avenue in Atlantic City, geotubes meant to capture and stabilize beach sand were displaced by Earl’s tides.</p>
<p>“That beach had no dunes anyway,” Atlantic City Beach Patrol Chief Rod Aluise said. “Some steps washed away, and there was some additional damage at States Avenue.”</p>
<p>On parts of Long Beach Island, meanwhile, the storm may actually have replenished the beach somewhat.</p>
<p>“We anticipate that the storm, along with last weekend’s storm, moved a lot of sand up out of the sand bars and onto the beaches,” Long Beach Township Beach Patrol Chief Don Myers said. “As soon as the weather calms down, we’ll have the best-looking beaches all summer.</p>
<p>In Ocean City, modest waves lapped the beaches at 59th Street where the 10th Annual Marie A. Becker Memorial Longboard Contest kicked off with about 100 participants.</p>
<p>“Right now the waves look OK, but nothing big, “ said Ricky Sanchez of Pleasantville, waiting to surf in Corsons Inlet State Park on the other side of the jetty from the competition. “They are just closing out very quick. I’ve gotta figure out some way of getting speed and getting on the face of the wave.”</p>
<p>In Ventnor, Beach Patrol Capt. Bill Howarth said that due Friday’s tide, “We lost a lot of beach from one end to the other. But nothing prevented us from opening up today.”</p>
<p>“It could have been worse,” Howarth added. “It’s not really as bad as we thought. Tides always come up to the dunes on one side of the pier and to the bulkheads on the other side. But most of the day is low tide anyway, so there will be plenty of room for everybody.”</p>
<p>On the beach at Newport Avenue in Ventnor, Paul Menno, of Winslow Township, Camden County, said the high water helped pack the beach down.</p>
<p>“It’s nice, “ Menno said. “The water came up so far, it kept the sand down. Even though it’s getting windy today, you’re not getting sandblasted.”</p>
<p>The gusty winds was all that prevented Saturday from being the perfect beach day. At Bartram Avenue in Atlantic City, the winds toppled a lifeguard stand and injured a lifeguard’s hand,” Aluise said.</p>
<p>In Ventnor, however, one beachgoer saw the gusts as an opportunity.</p>
<p>“We haven’t had the chance to fly the kite this summer,” said Renee Vennera, of Ventnor, holding 2-year-old son Renzo in one hand as 4-year-old Sandro tried to maneuver their monster-decorated kite. “It’s gorgeous, beautiful. I’m so glad we’re here. I think some people didn’t come down and are going to be really disappointed they didn’t.”</p>
<p>Beautiful weather is forecast to continue through the holiday weekend, with sunny skies and temperatures in the high 70s and low 80s expected.</p>
<p>Elsewhere, Massachusetts suffered a few hundred power outages, a handful of downed power lines and isolated flooding. Maine saw rain and churning surf, but no gusts strong enough to produce damage.</p>
<p>After skimming past both North Carolina and Massachusetts, Earl finally made landfall Saturday morning near Western Head, Nova Scotia, toppling some trees and knocking out power to more than 200,000 customers in Nova Scotia.</p>
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		<title>To visitors’ delight, pods of dolphins hunt fish just yards from the coast of Cape May Pt State Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MICHAEL MILLER Press of AC Staff Writer &#124; Saturday, August 21, 2010
Dolphins can be seen from most beaches in southern New Jersey between June and September, but this summer they have been especially abundant along Cape May Point State Park, where they have been seen frolicking near the shore almost every day.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_570" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Flipper.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-570" title="Dolphin_Cape May NJ Flipper" src="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Flipper-300x183.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="183" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A dolphin leaps over the wake of a boat near the shore Friday near Pittsburgh Avenue in Cape May. Photo by: Dale Gerhard </p></div>
<p>By MICHAEL MILLER Press of AC Staff Writer | Saturday, August 21, 2010</p>
<p>Dolphins can be seen from most beaches in southern New Jersey between June and September, but this summer they have been especially abundant along Cape May Point State Park, where they have been seen frolicking near the shore almost every day.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve noticed a trend that they&#8217;ve been down at Cape May Point State Park more this year than the Delaware Bay or Wildwood,&#8221; said Capt. Jeff Stewart Jr., who operates the Cape May Whale Watcher, a whale and dolphin tour boat based in Lower Township.</p>
<p>Stewart has been tracking dolphins aboard his tour boat since 1993. He said Cape May Point&#8217;s beaches form a natural cove that draws baitfish, which attract dolphins.</p>
<p>&#8220;Dolphins eat 40 to 50 pounds of fish every day,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Cape May Point is a natural fishing spot.&#8221;</p>
<p>The dolphins use the beach to corral their food. The beach at Cape May Point State Park has a steep incline at the water&#8217;s edge that allows the dolphins to swim remarkably close to land &#8211; in some cases mere yards away as they torpedo through the surf.</p>
<p>&#8220;When they&#8217;re feeding in the morning before the beaches get crowded, they&#8217;ll school the fish within a few feet of the shoreline,&#8221; said Peter Pietras, captain of the Cape May Point Beach Patrol.</p>
<p>Pietras said the dolphins seem to put on a regular show, especially on days when the water is choppy.</p>
<p>&#8220;They were doing it today,&#8221; Pietras said earlier this week. &#8220;They&#8217;re playing in the waves. That&#8217;s what it looks like.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pietras said the borough&#8217;s beaches attract large pods of dolphins every summer. When the lifeguards swim or row their boats out in the morning, they give the dolphins the right of way, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think all the guards enjoy watching them. They&#8217;re beautiful animals,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Cape May Point State Park, much of which is in Lower Township, is a popular attraction among school and church groups. Park naturalist Matt Pellegrine said some children see their first dolphins there.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s almost a magical experience for them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We get a lot of comments about them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pellegrine said he sometimes sees the dolphin&#8217;s aerial acrobatics. He is most impressed with one of their apparent feeding strategies in the shallows.</p>
<p>&#8220;I noticed it looks like they&#8217;re trying to do a headstand,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re probably trying to get flounder. Their tail is flapping on the surface.&#8221;</p>
<p>This beach, with its accommodating tides and ready source of food, serves as a calving ground, Stewart said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen quite a few newborn calves there,&#8221; Stewart said.</p>
<p>These day-old dolphins are usually jet black with wrinkled sides and a dorsal fin that lolls over to one side, which facilitates birthing, Stewart said.</p>
<p>Jackie Toth, a researcher at Rutgers University&#8217;s marine field station in Tuckerton, has studied New Jersey&#8217;s dolphins for years.</p>
<p>&#8220;Not much is known about the New Jersey population that hangs out here,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Toth said she frequently sees dolphins leaping out of the water, splashing or smacking their tails on the surface. She said it is not always easy to determine why dolphins perform some of their stunts.</p>
<p>&#8220;We just don&#8217;t know. Maybe they&#8217;re happy about a whole bunch of food they just found. They&#8217;re very playful animals, and very active and social,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Stewart said dolphins are opportunistic hunters that adopt techniques to suit their environments. On some beaches in the Carolinas, dolphins have been known to nearly beach themselves to catch fish. In Florida, some dolphins create bubble nets, much like whales do to corral schools of fish.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is learned behavior,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>But everywhere she goes, dolphins appeal to people, Toth said. Maybe it&#8217;s that grinning countenance or their natural grace, she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We see dolphins the most. That&#8217;s the biggest draw,&#8221; she said. &#8221; I think right whales are absolutely amazing animals. But how often do you see a right whale off Cape May?&#8221;</p>
<p>But Toth said their abundance is not the only reason for the dolphins&#8217; charm.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re playful, charismatic, beautiful animals,&#8221; she said.</p>
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		<title>Family fun in Atlantic City: Just what governor ordered</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KEVIN POST, Business Editor &#124; Posted: Sunday, August 15, 2010
ATLANTIC CITY — There is much that is unique about Steel Pier, starting with its crucial role as the Boardwalk&#8217;s only amusement park.
In a town full of entertainment for adults, Steel Pier stands almost alone as a place for kids.
On Sunday, three of them were [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_567" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Steel_Pier_AC.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-567" title="Steel_Pier_AC" src="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Steel_Pier_AC-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Steel Pier amusement park has been owned and operated since 1992 by Anthony Catanoso, 55, of Cape May Court House, his brothers and Ed Olwell, who all co-own Atlantic Pier Amusements. Photo by: Edward Lea </p></div>
<p>By KEVIN POST, Business Editor | Posted: Sunday, August 15, 2010</p>
<p><strong>ATLANTIC CITY</strong> — There is much that is unique about Steel Pier, starting with its crucial role as the Boardwalk&#8217;s only amusement park.</p>
<p>In a town full of entertainment for adults, Steel Pier stands almost alone as a place for kids.</p>
<p>On Sunday, three of them were sons of Stephanie Fisher, 38, of Frederick, Md.</p>
<p>Fisher said she and her husband, Robert, 35, have been coming to Atlantic City about every other weekend for the past two years.</p>
<p>When it&#8217;s open, Steel Pier is the daytime highlight.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the kids&#8217; turn for fun during the day, then it&#8217;s our turn at night,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I would like to see more attractions like this in Atlantic City.&#8221;</p>
<p>While older (and taller) brothers Casey and Jordon got to drive the motorized carts, Dylan Fisher, 8, said he likes Steel Pier because it has &#8220;lots of kids stuff.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I especially like the Disko and the Rocket,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The Disko is another thing unique about Steel Pier.</p>
<p>The big spinning saucer on a half pipe is one of four rides whose first U.S. appearance was on Steel Pier, said Anthony Catanoso, 55, of Cape May Court House.</p>
<p>Catanoso, along with brothers Chuck, Bill and Joe, all of Cape May, and Ed Olwell, of North Wildwood, co-owns Atlantic Pier Amusements, which owns and operates the amusement park.</p>
<p>The pier&#8217;s slingshot Rocket ride was the first of its kind to use, instead of bungee cords, steel cables and springs for propulsion skyward, with an electromagnet holding the passenger ball in place until liftoff, Anthony Catanoso said.</p>
<p>The Crazy Mouse spinning roller coaster was a first when it was introduced in 1996, and this year&#8217;s national debut was the Steel Pier Monster Plunge.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a drop and spin tower, with a 50 foot tower,&#8221; Catanoso said. &#8220;No other tower in the country spins as it drops.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the ocean end of Steel Pier is another ride he said is unique to the Jersey Shore: helicopter tours.</p>
<p>Up to three passengers can choose one of three tours, starting at $39 each. &#8220;We also do packages with various hotels and bed and breakfasts in the area,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Atlantic Amusements started on Steel Pier in 1992 after Trump Entertainment found out the state wouldn&#8217;t approve plans for condo development across the Boardwalk from its flagship Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort.</p>
<p>The amusement park has grown steadily since — this year adding two kids rides in addition to the spinning drop tower — and now has 25 rides, 22 games of chance, 11 food outlets and four retail outlets, Catanoso said. The Flores Family performs a free motorcycle show inside a big steel ball at the pier entrance four to six times a day.</p>
<p>The growth has been driven by an increase in families, he said, and on the Fourth of July this year more than 30,000 people went onto the pier.</p>
<p>The market niche the park has developed fits nicely into Gov. Christie&#8217;s plan to make Atlantic City, and especially its Boardwalk, more family friendly, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I feel good about the governor&#8217;s initiative. I think it&#8217;s going to help, concentrating on more noncasino, nongaming attractions, and also talking about public-private partnerships,&#8221; Catanoso said.</p>
<p>In particular, he thinks it&#8217;s time for Atlantic Pier Amusements to get public help — perhaps from the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority — with funding a major attraction such as a $4 million roller coaster.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been here 19 years and we never took any public money,&#8221; he said, but now it could be time. &#8220;We&#8217;re the perfect candidate.&#8221;</p>
<p>A coaster would be a major draw and add to the pier&#8217;s strongest segment, thrill rides, he said. And bolstering the city&#8217;s best-performing tourist attractions makes sense.</p>
<p>&#8220;Even last year, in a bad economy, the four segments that increased were Steel Pier, The Walk, Gardner&#8217;s Basin and Atlantic City Cruises,&#8221; Catanoso said. &#8220;All are noncasino, all family entertainment, succeeding in a sluggish casino environment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Before it can add a coaster or other high-end attraction, Atlantic Pier also needs to get a longer lease than the two- and three-year increments Trump Entertainment has offered previously, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hopefully we&#8217;ll enter into a longer lease. There are indications that we&#8217;ll get one,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Whatever the future of Steel Pier, it will always have its other unique attribute: A 20th century history as the Showplace of the Nation that helped launch the careers of Burns and Allen, Frank Sinatra and many others.</p>
<p>That keeps entertainers such as Kim Delaney and Pia Zadora, as well as sports stars Allen Iverson, Julius &#8220;Dr. J.&#8221; Erving and Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, coming to walk on the entertainment world&#8217;s sacred ground above the ocean</p>
<p>&#8220;We try to give them their space. We don&#8217;t bug them too much,&#8221; Catanoso said.</p>
<hr size="2" /><strong>Steel Pier amusement park</strong></p>
<p><strong>Owner</strong>: Atlantic Pier Amusements; principals Anthony Catanoso, of Cape May Court House, and brothers Chuck, Bill and Joe, all of Cape May, and Ed Olwell, of North Wildwood</p>
<p><strong>Founded</strong>: 1992</p>
<p><strong>Employees</strong>: 200</p>
<p><strong>Revenue</strong>: Undisclosed</p>
<hr size="2" /><strong>Visit the pier</strong></p>
<p>The pier is located at 1000 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ, 08401.  The pier is open 3 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday, noon to 1 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Single tickets are $0.75, 35-ticket books are $25, 80-ticket books are $50, 200-ticket books are $100. For more information, call 866-386-6659, 609- 345-4893 or <a href="http://www.steelpier.com/">click here for a link to the park’s website</a>.</p>
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		<title>Seashore Line resumes train service to Cape May as tourist attraction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By RICHARD DEGENER, Press of AC Staff Writer &#124; Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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CAPE MAY — Passenger train service to the city resumed Tuesday for the first time in five years, and it happened without much fanfare.
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<p><strong>CAPE MAY</strong> — Passenger train service to the city resumed Tuesday for the first time in five years, and it happened without much fanfare.</p>
<p>City officials were not even aware <strong><a href="http://capemayseashorelines.org/" target="_blank">Cape May Seashore Lines</a></strong> had brought back the service. It was announced to about 400 railroad buffs on the social networking site Facebook, and about 40 passengers were on the first run from Rio Grande.</p>
<p>Cape May Seashore Lines President Tony Macrie was on the first train Tuesday morning.</p>
<p>“We are back, Jack,” said Macrie shortly after the two railroad cars pulled into the station here off Lafayette Street.</p>
<p>Macrie said bystanders were excited seeing the train steam down the track.</p>
<p>“Kids were running to the train. People were waving. People in swimming pools were jumping up,” Macrie said.</p>
<p>The city had train service from 1863 to 1983, mostly during an era when trains were used to bring tourists to the resort. The rise of the automobile and paved highways to the shore after World War II led to the demise of train service, but Cape May Seashore Lines returned as a tourist attraction in 1999.</p>
<p>Macrie said it was going pretty good until 2005, when a series of problems arose. The setbacks included mechanical issues with the swinging railroad bridge across the Cape May Canal. They were fixed in 2006, and Macrie was planning to restart in 2007, when an April Northeast storm damaged the tracks and stranded his locomotives in Tuckahoe.</p>
<p>Macrie also had a well-publicized battle with Middle Township over storing some cars in Rio Grande but said those problems have since been ironed out.</p>
<p>“We just got a letter of support from Middle Township. The timing is right to get things running,” Macrie said.</p>
<p>Local officials were not aware trains were returning, but Cape May Point Mayor Carl Schupp was excited about the development, partly because he believes trains could be useful for hurricane evacuations.</p>
<p>“That’s great. It may be useful to emergency management if we ever needed to evacuate,” said Schupp.</p>
<p>Macrie said he has promoted the idea for years. He said he could run 10 cars at a time with 80 people per car. The track is currently clear from Cape May to Cape May Court House and eventually could go to Tuckahoe or even further north and west.</p>
<p>“There’s probably no better way to get people out of here,” Macrie said.</p>
<p>For now, he’s just looking for paying customers. The plan is to operate three runs a day between Rio Grande and Cape May from Tuesday through Friday into Labor Day weekend.</p>
<p>“We have ample parking in Rio Grande. It’s $10 per round trip for adults and $5 for kids age 2 to 12. We want to keep it reasonable and get people to ride,” Macrie said.</p>
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		<title>Former Sea Isle City lighthouse faces demolition in fall</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By BRIAN IANIERI, Press of A.C.Staff Writer &#124; Wednesday, August 4, 2010
SEA ISLE CITY — The nonprofit group trying to save the 125-year-old Ludlam Beach Lighthouse is running out of time: Demolition is scheduled for the fall.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_543" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/lighthouse03.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-543" title="Sea Isle City lighthouse 03" src="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/lighthouse03-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A photo in a book about the lighthouse shows how the light looked in about 1900.</p></div>
<p>By BRIAN IANIERI, Press of A.C.Staff Writer | Wednesday, August 4, 2010</p>
<p><strong>SEA ISLE CITY</strong> — The nonprofit group trying to save the 125-year-old Ludlam Beach Lighthouse is running out of time: Demolition is scheduled for the fall.</p>
<p>Now known as 3414 Landis Ave., the lighthouse has been a no-frills, six-unit summer rental for decades. Even those days of obscurity are numbered. On Sept. 13, the electricity will be turned off, the cable unplugged. The squat, nondescript building will never again see another summer tenant. By next year, it will be gone. To prevent that, the Friends of the Ludlam Beach Lighthouse are considering nearly anything to save the building, including potentially finding a place for it in another municipality.</p>
<p>&#8220;It really belongs on Ludlam Beach,&#8221; said the nonprofit group&#8217;s founder, Bob Uhrmann, 61, sitting at the kitchen table at 3414 Landis Ave. in Sea Isle City. &#8220;But as long as it stays out of a landfill, I don&#8217;t care where it goes.&#8221;</p>
<p>The nonprofit group is far short of funding to move the structure.</p>
<p>Sea Isle City considered allocating $100,000 for the Ludlam Beach Lighthouse but scrapped plans earlier this year amid budget cuts and concerns that city ownership and further repairs could exceed $1 million.</p>
<p>The drive</p>
<p>Uhrmann, a middle school history teacher who lives in Upper Township, started the drive five years ago to save &#8220;The Forgotten Lighthouse&#8221; after he heard owner Charles Adams planned to rebuild.</p>
<p>Adams, 60, a retired plumbing instructor in Philadelphia, has owned the building since 1993 and continues to rent units weekly. Since 2006, Adams has said he would donate the building to be moved. Uhrmann does not fault Adams for wanting new construction.</p>
<p>Adams sent a letter to Uhrmann and city officials in July informing them he plans to turn off the utilities on Sept. 13.</p>
<p>&#8220;Any part of the building remaining after September 20, 2010, will be demolished and trucked to a landfill,&#8221; he wrote.</p>
<p>The city&#8217;s Zoning Board approved new construction in May to erect three homes on the large lot, city Construction Official Neil Bryne said. The property still needs a demolition permit, a certification that mainly ensures all utilities have been shut off, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t look good at this point,&#8221; said City Councilman Michael McHale, who supported the idea of using city funding for the lighthouse.</p>
<p>Sea Isle City has offered the site of a former landfill on Fifth Street for the lighthouse group to place the building.</p>
<p>But Uhrmann said without the city backing the funding, the chances of saving the building have diminished.</p>
<p>Uhrmann said moving the building and putting in the piling will cost $50,000. His group has about $14,000, he said. Without city ownership to help secure grants, finding funding is difficult, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been doing this for over five years, and I don&#8217;t see a light at the end of the tunnel here,&#8221; Uhrmann said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Uhrmann is looking for people, organizations or even towns that might want a former lighthouse and would be willing to move and help restore it.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve gotten some interest from some people, but nothing concrete,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;The Forgotten Lighthouse&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>The postcard image of a beaming lighthouse on the shoreline exists in the imagination at 3414 Landis Ave., a stop on the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge last year.</p>
<p>The only clue of its past is a sign in a first-floor window saying so. Inside are thick baseboards and heavy oak windows.</p>
<p>The Ludlam Beach Lighthouse has no tower and it has no light. It has been a residence since the 1920s. Built in 1885, it is among the oldest buildings in the city.</p>
<p>Phil Bur III, a lighthouse buff with a summer home in Sea Isle City, first saw Sea Isle City&#8217;s lighthouse on a map of New Jersey lighthouses. Like many, Bur had never heard of it.</p>
<p>&#8220;There was a steel tower with a light on top was all anyone could remember, and that was built in 1924. Nobody even remembered the old original lighthouse,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The steel tower replaced the Ludlam Beach Lighthouse and remained in Sea Isle City until the 1960s.</p>
<p>In the 1990s, Bur began researching archives of the lighthouse, its locations and its keepers.</p>
<p>City founder Charles Landis swayed the federal government to build it after providing a list of shipwrecks off Sea Isle City&#8217;s coast, said Bur, who wrote a history of the lighthouse.</p>
<p>The lighthouse was taken out of service in 1924 and stripped of its Fresnel lens. The lighthouse&#8217;s revolving oil lamp was replaced with a 40-foot steel tower with a flashing gas light.</p>
<p>&#8220;The old Sea Isle City lighthouse, which for 44 years guided mariners along the coast, will be abandoned and the building, one of the first on the island, will be dismantled and sold to the highest bidder for the material it contains,&#8221; read a 1924 article in the Seven Mile Beach Reporter.</p>
<p>The building was moved from the beach to 31st Street and Landis Avenue and made into a residence. It was moved again in the 1940s to its present location.</p>
<p>Christine Everly, 33, of Warminster, Pa., is the owner&#8217;s daughter. She spent 17 summers at the shore home in Sea Isle City. Her three young children know the history, too.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was neat. It always gave us something to talk about when we went out. Even my kids know, &#8216;We live in a lighthouse.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Everly said repairs at the building grew more expensive each year.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the prettiest of places, but it can be pretty once it&#8217;s back to the original,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Divine intervention&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>Hugh McCauley, a preservation architect involved in Sea Isle City and with the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse restoration in North Wildwood, said the lighthouse has enough of the original documentations, plans, photographs and drawings to bring it to its former glory.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the building deserves a chance,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>To the north and south of Sea Isle City are encouragements to Uhrmann and the Friends of the Ludlam Beach Lighthouse.</p>
<p>In North Wildwood, the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse was restored and opened in the 1980s after being used for storage for nearly 20 years.</p>
<p>In Ocean City in March, Ocean City approved a $958,000 bond to buy the Ocean City Lifesaving Station at Fourth Street. After a decade of debate and lawsuits, Ocean City purchased the property shortly before it could have been demolished.</p>
<p>In Sea Isle City, Uhrmann still sees hope for 3414 Landis Ave., although it might not be in the city where it was built.</p>
<p>&#8220;All we need is a little divine intervention and we&#8217;re set to go.&#8221;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By BAILEY CLARK, For The Press of A.C. &#8211; Friday, July 9, 2010
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_498" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/RNSshowHouse.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-498" title="RNS Ocean City, ShowHouse" src="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/RNSshowHouse-300x207.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="207" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Michele and Bill Collins of Corbin City designed the family bedroom and sleeping porch for Windsong on Wesley, this year’s RNS Show House. The house, located in Ocean City, opens for tours on Saturday. </p></div>
<p>By BAILEY CLARK, For The Press of A.C. &#8211; Friday, July 9, 2010</p>
<p>Sometimes, interior-design perfection means working to the very last minute.</p>
<p>The smell of fresh paint was strong and the sounds of hammering and power tools filled the air as designers and crew members scrambled this week to put the finishing touches on &#8220;Windsong On Wesley,&#8221; the 19th Annual Designer Show House for the Ruth Newman Shapiro Cancer and Heart Fund which opens to the public on Saturday.</p>
<p>Twenty-one spaces in the turn-of-the-century Dutch Colonial house on Wesley Avenue have been transformed into minor works of interior-design art. The room treatments ranged from eclectic and dreamy to chic and subdued.</p>
<p>This is the first time Ocean City has hosted the show house. Charlotte Berger, publicity chairperson for RNS, said that they were hoping the location would bring many visitors to the event. &#8220;They have a lot of tourists in the summer, and we&#8217;re hoping that people will find it interesting,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Designer John Kelly, of Philadelphia, was still waiting for plantation-style shutters and shower doors to come in for his upstairs bedroom and bathroom on Wednesday afternoon. A girly space featuring upholstered walls and lots of white and pink, he described his approach as &#8220;a nice, airy, cool, beachy bedroom.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have been with RNS for 19 years, and if there ever was a show house that I didn&#8217;t think was going to get done in time, this is the one,&#8221; said Kelly. &#8220;But, it somehow always manages to get done.&#8221;</p>
<p>Donna Tursi of Tursi Interiors LLC, based in West Chester, Pa., worked with Joseph Tenaglia, from Joseph Design L.L.C. of Wildwood Crest, to create the relaxing living room featuring neutral colors, starfish accents, nautical rope treatments on the walls and a unique mirrored fireplace. Tursi said that Tenaglia&#8217;s contemporary and avant-garde style meshed well with her own traditional approach.</p>
<p>&#8220;I tuned him down, and he tuned me up,&#8221; she said. Tursi was also waiting for more accessories to come in to complete the room.</p>
<p>Mary Dima, of Daroo Designs, collaborated with Meg Clemm, of Katy MacKenzie Designs, both from Blue Bell, Pa., to create &#8220;Surfside Soiree,&#8221; a lush and beautiful dining room featuring pastel colors, Louis XV chairs and a crystal chandelier.</p>
<p>&#8220;We did not want it to be typical beachy. We call it &#8216;elegant beachy,&#8217;&#8221; said Dima.</p>
<p>&#8220;We just tried to keep it serene and peaceful,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>Visitors might find themselves daydreaming about living in the 4,500-square-foot privately-owned house, which is just as functional as it is stylish.</p>
<p>A soothing bedroom designed by Bill and Michele Collins, of Painted River Studios <strong>in Corbin City,</strong> includes white wood-paneled walls, a large painting of the ocean, and lots of blue. &#8220;We designed it to look like an old beach house,&#8221; said Michele Collins.</p>
<p>Collins envisioned visiting families with kids when designing the suite, which opens up to a sleeping porch with kid-sized custom beds with cubby holes underneath. A ladder leads to an attic playroom stocked with board games.</p>
<p>A tropics-themed sleeping porch makes creative use of a small space with a custom hanging bed suspended by rope and a bench with colorful, detailed upholstery.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sometimes small spaces intimidate people, because with a space so confined you wonder what you can possibly get from that,&#8221; said designer Beth Reale, who worked with Alicia Brown-Kosko on the room. Both designers hail from Interiors by Alicia, based in Williamstown. &#8220;I think we accomplished something very serene, very tropical, and a little rustic,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Visitors can take home more than interior decorating inspiration. On &#8220;Meet the Designer Night,&#8221; held every Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m., designers and vendors will be at the house to discuss their work. Furniture and accessories will also be available for purchase.</p>
<p>The $25 admission to the show house, which is available at the door, includes admission to a series of five lectures to be held on Thursday mornings, on topics ranging from health care to the history of Ocean City.</p>
<p>The house will be open through August 15th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. On Wednesdays and Thursdays, it will have extended hours until 8 p.m.</p>
<p>The proceeds from &#8220;Windsong on Wesley&#8221; will benefit AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center&#8217;s RNS Digital Mammography Van and the Cancer Centers at Shore Memorial Hospital and Cape Regional Medical Center.</p>
<p>For tickets and more information, visit <a href="http://www.rnscancerandheartfund.org">www.rnscancerandheartfund.org</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press of A.C. staff reports &#124; Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Cape May County Emergency Management Communications Center is asking municipal emergency management coordinators and local police to consider opening cooling centers for residents and visitors.
Meanwhile, the county says it&#8217;s senior centers are open to elderly who need relief from the heat.
With temperatures expected to reach [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Press of A.C. staff reports | Tuesday, July 6, 2010</strong></p>
<p>The Cape May County Emergency Management Communications Center is asking municipal emergency management coordinators and local police to consider opening cooling centers for residents and visitors.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the county says it&#8217;s senior centers are open to elderly who need relief from the heat.</p>
<p>With temperatures expected to reach 100 today and the heat to last through Thursday night, the county is asking the towns to consider people stranded by the conditions. </p>
<p>Cape May County Emergency Management Director Frank McCall said, &#8220;The Cooling Center does not have to be elaborate. It should be air conditioned and water, juice, chairs and cots should be available if possible.&#8221;</p>
<p>Additionally, municipalities were asked to inform their local Dispatch Center, Police, Fire, EMS and the media of the opening and location of their Cooling Center.</p>
<p> McCall added, &#8220;It is important that we in Cape May County be attuned to the needs of our residents and visitors. While our summer months can be very enjoyable, conditions like we are experiencing this week can have a serious impact on our children, senior citizens and individuals who may have medical conditions that leave them vulnerable to the effects of scorching heat and record-like temperatures. </p>
<p>The Cape May County Senior Centers are open from 8:30 am &#8211; 4:30 pm at the following locations:</p>
<p>&#8211;Howard Stainton Senior Center 3304 Bay Ave, Ocean City,  398-2552</p>
<p>&#8211;Lower Cape Senior Center, 2612 Bayshore Rd. Villas, 886-0070</p>
<p>&#8211;North Wildwood Senior Center, 10th &amp; Central Aves, North Wildwood, 729-2090</p>
<p>&#8211;Upper Twp. Senior Center, 1369 Old Stagecoach Rd, Palermo, 390-1969</p>
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		<title>Low-speed vehicles selling fast: Beach communities behind local demand for the electric carts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KEVIN POST, Press of A.C. Business Editor &#124; Sunday, July 4, 2010
A strong market is emerging for small electric-powered vehicles and southern New Jersey — with its barrier island communities and many campgrounds — is an early adopter of them.
Called low-speed vehicles, or LSVs, they look like beefed-up golf carts, from which they evolved [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_488" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/LSVsbeach.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-488" title="Beach LSV's" src="http://findashorehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/LSVsbeach.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="190" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Stuart McGinnis displays the low-speed models at South Jersey Electric Vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires low-speed vehicles to have headlights, tail lights, brake lights, turn signals, mirrors, parking brakes, windshields, safety belts and vehicle identification numbers — even though they only go as fast as 25 mph. </p></div>
<p>By KEVIN POST, Press of A.C. Business Editor | Sunday, July 4, 2010</p>
<p>A strong market is emerging for small electric-powered vehicles and southern New Jersey — with its barrier island communities and many campgrounds — is an early adopter of them.</p>
<p>Called low-speed vehicles, or LSVs, they look like beefed-up golf carts, from which they evolved in the past decade.</p>
<p>But LSVs have enough federally required equipment that they&#8217;re made for their specific purpose: Driving no faster than 25 mph, mainly on municipally approved roads with 25 mph speed limits, but in some circumstances on roads with limits as high as 35 mph in New Jersey and most states.</p>
<p>Their appeal is that they&#8217;re efficient and cheap to operate: They cost less than a car and can drive 40 miles on 20 cents worth of electricity.</p>
<p>Governments at all levels are starting to embrace LSVs for their negligible pollution and low operating costs. Island municipalities in the region have approved them for use and people are driving them around shore towns such as Ocean City.</p>
<p>In 2002, only a fourth of states allowed LSVs — and now 46 do. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates there were 40,000 on U.S. roads in 2008.</p>
<p>Low-speed vehicles are headed for much wider use if they can get past one substantial speed bump: They would have to be considered safe enough to share roads with much larger cars and trucks.</p>
<p><strong>LSV evolution</strong></p>
<p>Low-speed vehicles and the market for them have evolved over a few decades, and South Jersey Electric Vehicles, of Egg Harbor Township, has been a part of that transformative growth.</p>
<p>While the company&#8217;s name suggests a recent startup to take advantage of green-energy trends, Stuart McGinnis, 53, started South Jersey Electric Vehicles in 1980.</p>
<p>Back then, the business was all golf carts, McGinnis said, first servicing them at area golf courses and then selling and leasing them to country clubs as well.</p>
<p>When the golf market got saturated, McGinnis diversified in a way that laid the foundation for the low-speed vehicles of today &#8211; branching out into the region&#8217;s large campground market more than 20 years ago.</p>
<p>&#8220;I took the golf-bag racks off and put on utility boxes, making them like little pickup trucks,&#8221; he said. The quiet and inexpensive carts were used for campground oversight, maintenance and housekeeping.</p>
<p>Then McGinnis, who also lives in Egg Harbor Township, put rear seats on carts so owners could give prospective customers tours of parks. At that point, he said, some campgrounds started renting such carts to campers for their own use getting around.</p>
<p>Seasonal campers especially started buying their own carts and customizing them. McGinnis said golf carts tricked out to look like a Mustang and a Rolls-Royce were among special orders made by South Jersey Electric Vehicles.</p>
<p>While the campground market was leveling out like the golf market before it, gasoline prices were rising and interest was growing in vehicles that provided clean, cheap alternatives.</p>
<p>In 2006, New Jersey joined the national trend of authorizing low-speed vehicles and opened a new market for South Jersey Electric Vehicles.</p>
<p><strong>Carts no more</strong></p>
<p>Under state law, LSVs can&#8217;t be modified golf carts, and federal requirements make that impractical anyway.</p>
<p>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires LSVs to have: headlights, tail lights, brake lights, turn signals, mirrors, parking brakes, windshields, safety belts and vehicle identification numbers.</p>
<p>New Jersey requires operators of LSVs to carry automobile insurance coverage of $15,000 to $30,000 for bodily injury and $5,000 for property damage.</p>
<p>McGinnis said the Columbia models he sells, made by the Electric Car Company of Long Beach, Calif., go beyond the basic requirements with features such as hydraulic brakes and safety glass.</p>
<p>Models range from a two-seater costing $10,000 to a &#8220;nicely equipped&#8221; four-passenger LSV with disc brakes for $14,000, he said.</p>
<p>John Yarrington, who lives in Elmer, Salem County, and has a summer house in Ocean City, got his first look at his new Columbia four-passenger LSV on Thursday, which is red with tan seats and four-wheel brakes.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be good over here,&#8221; Yarrington said from Ocean City. &#8220;We&#8217;re in the north end and anticipate going to the beach and downtown to shop, wherever a regular vehicle is used but this should be easier because its smaller and more environmentally friendly.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said he has several friends in town who already own LSVs, one of whom drove 1,500 miles in one season.</p>
<p>He said having an LSV at the shore will allow him and his wife to each have a vehicle on the island without having to drive down from Elmer separately.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re fun to drive, a good summer vehicle,&#8221; Yarrington said. &#8220;Now I just have to figure out a rack system so I can put my beach chair on the back.&#8221;</p>
<p>LSVs are also available configured as small trucks, with pickup, van or dump-truck bodies, and they cost $18,000 to $20,000, he said.</p>
<p>Two shore municipalities have recently purchased truck-style LSVs to reduce the cost and environmental impact of light work.</p>
<p>&#8220;Wildwood bought one (in May) with a pickup body for its Public Works Department and North Wildwood bought one (last fall) with a van body,&#8221; McGinnis said. &#8220;They use it for their parking meter collections and installations. They used to send a dump truck that was burning diesel fuel for that job.&#8221;</p>
<p>The federal government encourages LSV purchases with 10 percent tax credits of up to $2,500.</p>
<p>McGinnis said the state waives the sales tax as an incentive and doesn&#8217;t require vehicle inspections.</p>
<p>Last year, the federal government ordered 800 LSVs from Columbia and then another 200, mainly for use at military facilities nationwide, he said.</p>
<p>And this week, the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s William J. Hughes Technical Facility in Egg Harbor Township started receiving 13 LSVs under a federal contract. McGinnis said that as the local supporting dealer, he is prepping the vehicles as they arrive.</p>
<p>The low-speed-vehicle market seems to have reached the critical mass and momentum to make them a common alternative for personal transportation.</p>
<p>The final component of their success &#8211; widespread public acceptance &#8211; may hinge on whether they are viewed as safe enough.</p>
<p><strong>The safety issue</strong></p>
<p>The insurance industry doesn&#8217;t think LSVs are safe, especially on any roads with speed limits higher than 25 mph.</p>
<p>The industry&#8217;s Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says the growing use of LSVs is a disturbing trend that goes against 40 years of work by government, automakers and insurers to reduce the risks of injuries and fatalities on the nation&#8217;s roadways.</p>
<p>The institute, famous for its crash tests of vehicles, reported in May that it had given an LSV two crash tests at 31 mph and found they would have resulted in &#8220;severe or fatal injury&#8221; to occupants.</p>
<p>The institute suggested that people and agencies seeking greener vehicles choose full-featured hybrid cars and trucks instead.</p>
<p>McGinnis said he hadn&#8217;t heard of any accidents in the region involving an LSV.</p>
<p>&#8220;A tragedy can happen and it&#8217;s a shame when it happens, but I think driving an LSV is much safer than being on a moped or motorcycle,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Motorcycles, after all, go 60 mph and faster, &#8220;so at least we&#8217;re starting on low-speed roads,&#8221; he said, with motors designed to keep the LSV at 25 mph or less.</p>
<p>Another safety factor in LSVs&#8217; favor is that where they operate is controlled by municipalities, which can rule out busy and potentially dangerous roads such as West Avenue in Ocean City.</p>
<p>McGinnis said Egg Harbor Township decided against allowing LSVs on its roads, which he said was probably wise since the township is crisscrossed with many busy through streets.</p>
<p>The island communities, though, are self-contained with limited through streets, making them suitable for this environmentally friendly form of transportation, he said.</p>
<p>Every oceanfront municipality from Cape May to Ocean City has allowed LSVs, he said.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s where South Jersey Electric Vehicles — which had gross sales of about $1 million in 2009 — sees its current market, and where the region will see what role LSVs will play in transportation.</p>
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