The county has highlighted six key areas identified as being most in need of traffic relief and produced a report, released Wednesday, that details traffic calming recommendations for the sites. Recommendations include speed humps, street medians, road narrowing and textured crosswalks.

According to Bob Bzik, Somerset county planning director, the county will now secure state and federal to act on the recommendations within the next two years. The county also plans to circulate its report around the state to encourage other municipalities to develop traffic calming plans for their communities.

"We're using physical road improvements to alter driver behavior," said Bob Bzik, county planning director. "We've tried to do it with enforcement, but you can't park a police cruiser out there 24 hours a day."

Traffic calming is relatively new to the area, having only been used in in Dover, Princeton and Doylestown, Pa., Bzik said. Officials in South Orange and Leonia are also investigating it, he said.

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Police officials in Morristown are seeking funding to step up enforcement against pedestrian right-of-way violators. "Yield to pedestrians" signs are placed in crosswalks each day, but police say most drivers ignore them. Officials at the State Division of Highway Traffic Safety pointed out to Morristown and Dover in 1995 that they had the worst pedestrian collision rates in Morris County. Star Ledger