The city division of traffic and signals has gone completely woke with the traffic coming stupidity which actually creates traffic. A few examples:

• backwards parking on Lower Broadway eliminated two white Lanes at the intersection of 7th Avenue. I avoid that area now you can spend up to 5 minutes just getting from Crittenden Street to the Burger King!
• the White Lane stripes were never replaced on Broadway after the resurfacing of what was already a good road. So now it's a free-for-all where you have idiot drivers who drive right in the middle of where the two lanes used to be, slowing everybody down. Then you have to bump outs at Broadway and 3rd Avenue. This is so stupid! And now you have 3rd Avenue backup all the way down to McCarter Highway because nobody can make a right turn or go straight at Broadway and 3rd until the poor sap in the front who is stuck finally gets his chance to make the left turn! Of course by then the light is red.
• For some abnormal reason Park Avenue was converted to one lane each way! Now it has traffic all the way up to the park!
• Clifton Avenue and Park Avenue by the cathedral. Once again, a ridiculous curb bump out makes it impossible for anyone stuck behind the guy trying to turn left from going around. As a result Clifton Avenue Northbound is always jammed from Park Avenue all the way down to Rotonda pool / 7th Ave!
• then there's the infamous elimination of Irvine Turner Boulevard as a major 4 lane artery and it's reduction to a one-lane driveway each Direction with a stupid planter in the middle even ambulances cannot maneuver around! I have never seen a person ride a bike in the bike Lanes which are pretty much faded away by now. But hey! Once they come to Newark and go to this Urban hell they'll go back out to the suburbs and never shop here again!