Still, parking is free here, and that's good. Some take the traffic and parking problems in stride as part of daily life. Now and then people come in and complain about the parking. When a car stops to park, all the traffic stops. At least, they did away with the one-hour limit on parking.
Most people just accept the situation.
The town has grown, but it's still a good, safe, friendly town. Raritan Avenue is also Route 27, a mostly two-lane state highway prone to congestion from Elizabeth to Princeton. But just as Route 27 South enters the Highland Park business district, it is joined by Woodbridge Avenue, carrying traffic from Route 1, Raritan Center and eastern Middlesex County. At the same time, heavy traffic out of New Brunswick is heading north on Route 27. Kenneth Herman, a 22-year police veteran who has headed the borough's traffic bureau since 1993.