Ocean Ride New Facility in Manchester
MANCHESTER, NJ — The Ocean County Department of Transportation Services Department has officially moved and is is officially up and running.
The facility,is located on Ridgeway Boulevard in Manchester. It includes offices, space for drivers and for the equipment for the department, which operates Ocean Ride.
The facility is closer to the senior communities Ocean Ride serves in Whiting, Manchester, Toms River, Jackson and Lakewood.
The Road Department garage houses road department equipment, two maintenance crews and two specialty crews and includes a salt dome for winter road maintenance.
The new facility for the Transportation Department includes a 9,000-square-foot office building and a 100-foot-by-180-foot garage area with 10 bays that will be operated by the Ocean County Department of Vehicle Services, which maintains the county's buses and vehicles.
The transportation garage will be outfitted with numerous lifts, a welding bay, oil dispensing system, compressed air throughout for tools, vehicle exhaust system, and spare parts storage. The county also has plans of installing drive-thru snow removal equipment to brush the snow off the tops of buses with ease.
"The construction of this state of the art facility is just another example of the unwavering commitment from the Board of Freeholders to support transportation's effort to provide a high level of service to the senior and disabled residents of Ocean County," said David Fitzgerald, Director of the Ocean County Transportation Department.
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