There are a few changes to this year’s LBI FLY International Kite Festival, perhaps none more surprising than fully functioning traffic lights in Ship Bottom and Long Beach Township.
Citing safety reasons, Ocean County officials decided to leave the remaining traffic signals operating until after the sixth annual kite festival, one of the few in-person events on the Island during the public health emergency that began in March. Historically, the traffic signals are turned to blinking the day after Chowderfest and ahead of the 18-mile run.
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