Collingswood Awarded $200K to Repair Comly Ave.

Collingswood will get $200,000 in state dollars to put towards the resurfacing of Comly Avenue.

The borough is one of 24 towns in Camden County to share in $5.27 million of municipal aid grants announced by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) on Wednesday.

An NJDOT press release noted that the county package is part of 406 local aid grants issued statewide "to advance street, safety and quality-of-life improvements without burdening local property taxpayers."

Collingswood was one of 660 municipalities to apply for local aid, according to the statement. Although the state encouraged submissions of plans for "bikeway, pedestrian safety and streetscape projects," 94 percent of the grants it issued—like the Comly Ave. resurfacing—were "traditional road improvement projects."

Applying for the grant is an annual process, and Collingswood put its bid in at the end of 2012, mayor James Maley told Patch in an e-mail.

"[We're] very happy to get whatever we can since funding has been less over recent years," Maley wrote. "Very good news."