New poll shows 65% of New Jersey supports Free Beaches!
https://stockton.edu/news/2025/stockton-poll-beach-tags-cost.html
As reported in today’s (7-5-25) Asbury Park Press pg. 1 by Jim Walsh “Survey finds displeasure with cost of state’s beach tag” which reports on the just released Stockton University Hughes Center for Public Policy survey conducted June 18-25 showing that 65% of respondents “think beaches are a public resource” and that “they should be free to New Jersey residents.”
Sixty-five percent of NJ for free beaches! How long can the politicians deny the will of the majority who hate the beach badge expense and aggravation?
Petition link here - let's free the beach!
https://chng.it/qTxhg58QksDO YOU HATE HAVING TO
BUY AND WEAR BADGES OR WRISTBANDS
TO USE OUR PUBLIC BEACHES?
WHAT A PAIN IN THE NECK!
AND FOR SOME,
THE COST MEANS WAITING
UNTIL THE LIFEGUARDS GO HOME.
NEW JERSEY'S BEACH BADGE SYSTEM
IS ROOTED IN
RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION.
ITS PURPOSE IS NOT TO RAISE FUNDS,
BUT TO RESTRICT ACCESS
TO OUR PUBLICLY OWNED BEACHES.
WE CAN AND WE WILL CHANGE THIS!Here's the link for the petition:
https://www.change.org/MakeNJBeachesFreePlease consider signing and sharing.
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THE PETITION:
Make New Jersey beaches free!
We ask the governor and legislators to act now
to eliminate entrance fees
and make all publicly owned beaches free for everyone.
Only in NJ must you pay
to walk on the beach and enjoy the ocean water.
It is wrong to deprive the economically disadvantaged
the basic human rights of swimming and sunbathing.
It is cruel to force the poor to wait
until lifeguards have gone home,
when most drownings occur.
It is harmful to wildlife to litter the ecosystem
with lost and discarded plastic badges and wristbands.
The beach fee system
is repressive, discriminatory, and inefficient.
The state government should dedicate
a tiny sliver of its yearly budget to reimbursing
beach towns for lifeguards and maintenance.
The resulting boost to tourism revenues
from ending the aggravation and indignity
of badges and wristbands
might even make the switch to free beaches pay for itself.
See makenjbeachesfree.com to learn more.
The time is right to free the beach!
Scroll down and click on the blog entrees to learn more.Our publicly owned beaches
should be,
and will be,
free for everyone.
It is inevitable.
Make NJ Beaches Free!
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