Away from the high-traffic, road-work laden streets at the entrance to Long Beach Island, seven lanes of traffic separate the bayfront from the oceanfront in Ship Bottom. And those lanes are just on the Boulevard, the main thoroughfare running the length of the 18-mile barrier Island.

“It’s hard to get people across that road,” Ship Bottom Mayor William Huelsenbeck said, adding borough officials are working with Ocean County, which owns and maintains the roadway, but the widest part of the…