Also heading southeast, where 33 & 34 merge, there is that small turn to get on 33 west or 34 north, that is so dangerous. You are blindly coming over the small bridge on 34 and almost rear end all the cars and trucks stopped to make that turn! Half the time there is a tractor trailer or a pickup pulling a trailer that doesn't even fit in the turn blocking both southbound lanes!

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Interesting comment addressed to "fools." Obviously Lizziesmom never drove this circle before the revision, when the circle had to yield to the incoming roads. Each circle has different rules, and this circle isn't big enough for the yield structure now. Just ask the Wall Township Police Department what they think, based on all the accidents they deal with and the observations they make. Sorry, Lizziesmom, it has nothing to do with knowing how to drive and everything to do with poor engineering.

Obviously you have never driven this circle which is the opposite of all the other circles in the area. You must yield before entering the circle. The cars in the circle have the right of way. Was there a reason you would resort to name calling about a situation you have no experience with?

If you read the comment you will see that it says cars entering the circle needs to yield to cars on the circle. I do know this circle and have used it over 40 years including the new improvements. We natives grew up on circles - it is the "outsiders" that don't have a clue how to drive them. I also knew the Freehold Circle and the Eatontown Circle and with those "improvements" there nothing was made better.

Lizziesmom, you're still not getting it. If you've been driving the Collingwood Circle for 40 years, besides being lucky to still be alive, you're missing the fact that the yields are now opposite what they've always been. The circle a few miles away on Rt. 34 east of the GSP has yellow yield lights, and they work well to emphasize the yield rules. What's wrong with some safety measures to avoid unnecessary accidents involving those of us who DO understand with those who may be confused, especially by the lack of room to cross over from the circle to Rt. 547 South? The police and the DOT are aware of the problems, so your nasty comments are curious. If you have no complaints about the circle, good for you. Move on to something else!

take it from someone who has almost been killed 3 times and hit a person crossing rt 66. install traffic lights or an overpass. look at halls mill and kozloski rd, works just fine now. it will take a death for someone at d.o.t. to WAKE UP!

to lizziesmom i grew up here(47 years) the circle is a death trap. you and DOT need to wake up,i drive a hvac service van and have to go through that circle 4,5 or more times a day. you are wrong. an outsiders should not have roll up on an intersection like this and the idiots that don't even YIELD.

As one of the aforementioned "outsiders" (although i've been living in NJ for 8 years now) i think the circle is ridiculous. Improvements or not, they should just add a traffic light - like almost every other busy intersection anywhere.

I totally agree, this circle is very dangerous and needs fixing immediately. Waiting till someone gets killed is not the time to fixing the problem.

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Please try to keep comments here useful and aimed at a purpose other than insulting those of us who are concerned with the real danger of a poorly-designed traffic situation. "Newbies," old-timers, visitors, residents, or anyone else who pays attention to safe driving knows this circle is dangerous, so unless you have something constructive to add, your comments should be directed elsewhere.

What does that have to do with fixing roads?????

This is not supposed to be a message board for annoying banter; rather, we're supposed to be adding our complaints about the Collingwood Circle in a way that will make the DOT and other authorities take action to correct the dangers of the circle. Anyone who uses this circle frequently should join the fight to make it safer...not just pass judgment on our comments.

It has everything to do with it. Move here and sit back and complain, want constant changes, never satisfied with what is already there. (*content removed for abusive language)

I am from NJ. Has nothing to do with the dangers lurking at this circle. Until you have had an accident at this circle, don't complain.

This circle has been a mess since day 1. I remember before it was "fixed" I wrote several letters to the editor of the APP was even phone interviewed. My letter sparked the fire which eventually lead to the revision of the circle. Not what I would have done though, I proposed a intersection much like what they have done at other circles (eatontown, brielle, ect.). No dice, apparently they would encroch on the property of Exxon, and several other business' that sit on that circle and that would be unacceptable. Phooey! IMO they will wait until someone dies before anything will be done.

I just came through the circle towards Rt. 547 South and almost got killed -- yet again -- by someone on Rt. 33 South not yielding to the circle. I do all the right things--25 mph, blinkers going-- and nothing helps because the circle is so poorly designed and the yield signs just aren't enough to make drivers do the right thing. I ask again: Does someone have to die at this circle before the authorities do something to improve it?

Months go by and nobody says anything about this circle. That's part of the problem--complacency! It's as danagerous today as it was when we opened this issue. I've seen police monitoring the traffic now and then, but no changes have been made. I guess the DOT is waiting for someone to be killed. I live right near it, and now I don't even use it. I go miles out of my way to avoit it. Thanks for wasting the $2-million, DOT.

Why isn't the DOT fixing this!!!!!!!!Like the previous message, they will wait till there is a fatality there before anything is done. As long as it isn't anyone in their family that gets killed......

I saw a Wall Township police car sitting there yesterday morning, watching. Fortunately nothing happened on his watch, but then again it was 10:00 and not backed up with traffic. They should watch on a Friday afternoon when Rt. 33 South is solid and filled with impatient drivers who don't know or care about the obscure "rules" of the circle. That's when it's really a free-for-all. Why won't the DOT install blinking yellow lights, like the circle further south on Rt. 34 which, by the way, assigns the yield differently???

I would recommend Birdsall Engineering to evaluate this situation and George Harms to rebuild this area. Both are proven proffessionals. Both fixed Rt70 in Brick in a timely manner!
Yes it was expensive but traffic "flows" safely now.

The circle remains as dangerous as it's ever been, with no attention from any transportation/traffic authorities. Every now and then I see the remnants of an accident there; otherwise, everyone seems to just cross their fingers and hope for the best. Our tax dollars at work...

It needs to be removed completely! Circles are a thing of the past and no one in NJ knows how to navigate them. Take it out!!!!

I agree, do away with this circle. It is so confusing.

If they are so difficult for you to understand maybe it is time to surrender your drivers license.

Not confusing at all if you know how to drive. Go back to the state you came from. Anyone native to NJ knows how to drive the circles.

lIZZIE MUST HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE ENGINEERS THAT MADE THE CHANGE!