Where the Road Money Went
Glen Ridge's council and boards approve road, sidewalk, and drainage spending by name -- a paving contract for one street, a grant application for another -- scattered across a decade of meeting minutes with no single ledger tying it together. This page does that by machine: every dollar amount that appears in the same sentence as a real Glen Ridge street name, across every meeting Ridge Report has summarized, attributed to that street and painted onto a real map. Ridgewood Avenue leads at $5,258,798 across 11 mentions.
By street
Hover or tap a street for its total. Streets with no color are ones no meeting summary has mentioned a dollar figure for -- that means no data, not zero spending.
Every street, with its sources
Click through to the actual meeting behind any figure. "Shared" means the source sentence named several streets under one bond or contract, split evenly across them here rather than credited in full to each.
Confirmed by the state: NJDOT Municipal Aid grants
Everything above is mined from prose. This table is different: New Jersey's Municipal Aid program (funded from the state Transportation Trust Fund) publishes an official, structured award list every year, and Glen Ridge's own line is quoted here verbatim, dollar-for-dollar, from that list — not inferred from a sentence. The catch is coverage, not accuracy: this only covers state-aid-funded projects, a fraction of total road spending. Locally-bonded work never appears here — that's still only ever found in meeting minutes, which is what the rest of this page is for. NJDOT's own published list doesn't go back before FY2021.
| Fiscal Year | Streets Named | Grant | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Carteret Street | $209,010 | FY2026 Municipal Aid Grants |
| FY2025 | Maolis Avenue, Hamilton Road The project title is genuinely truncated in NJDOT's own published PDF (checked against the surrounding rows, which wrap cleanly) -- at least one more street this grant covers isn't named anywhere in the source document. | $457,402 | FY2025 Municipal Aid Grants |
| FY2024 | Glen Ridge Parkway, Baldwin Street, Highland Avenue, Ferncliff Terrace | $575,000 | FY2024 Municipal Aid Grants |
| FY2023 | Baldwin Street, Sherman Avenue, Laurel Place | $264,035 | FY2023 Municipal Aid Grants by County |
| FY2022 | Glen Ridge Avenue, Sherman Avenue, Argyle Street Very likely the same real-world contract as the $728,226 'road-paving contract for Glen Ridge Avenue, Sherman Avenue and Argyle Street improvements' the main map's meeting-minutes mining independently found (see Council Awards Road Paving Contract, Advances Historic District Ordinance Amid Pushback, 2023-10-23) -- this NJDOT figure is the state grant portion of that project, not the full local contract cost, so the two numbers legitimately differ rather than one being wrong. | $572,376 | FY2022 Municipal Aid Grants by County |
| FY2021 | not named Project title doesn't name specific streets. | $530,000 | FY2021 Municipal Aid Grant Recipients |
$2,607,823 total across 6 fiscal years (FY2021–FY2026).
How this was put together: Approximate -- extracted by matching dollar amounts to street names co-occurring in the same sentence across all published Ridge Report meeting summaries. A sentence naming several streets with one shared figure (a joint bond/contract) has that amount split evenly across them, not credited in full to each. Not an official ledger; can double-count or miss amounts split across sentences. Every total links back to its source meeting(s). Generated from 511 published meetings.
This is a one-time look back, not a live feature — it won't update automatically as new meetings are published. See the borough's own official agendas & minutes for the authoritative account.