Traffic coming onto Long Beach Island midmorning Monday, Sept. 19 shifted from two lanes near the Morris Boulevard entrance ramp onto the Causeway, back to two lanes in the area of the environmental trail on Bonnet Island and back to a long, single line of cars just past the Third Street exit to Cedar Bonnet Island. The steady stream of deft drivers marked the first day of road work beginning on Ninth Street in Ship Bottom since earlier this year, when it was discontinued for the summer season.

While the work resumes on Ninth Street (Route 72 East), the sole access road onto LBI from the mainland, road work on…