New Jersey restricts access to beaches for outsiders

Public opinion is sharply divided after a court ruling placed restrictions for outsiders to go on beaches in New Jersey.

Officials of New Jersey have made rules to access the beach which will make it easier for well-to-do towns to keep away people who are coming from outside. This ruling by the officials of the nation’s most densely populated state has resulted in a sandstorm.
Officials came up with this decision after a court ruling which gave uniform standards to each shore town. People who are to benefit from the ruling are the ones who worked hard for outsiders to reach the beach.
“I was a 15 year old boy arrested for using the ocean” Joe Woerner said, an official with the Jersey Shore Surfrider Foundation, “these are the kind of people who will be making our rules” he added.
If one has to go any of the beaches in New Jersey then he or she has to wear a beach badge that cost between $5 to $12 a day, irrespective of how much time they spend in water or in sand. Woerner eventually got free but after a bunch of people gave him grief about being on the beach.
“We are being attacked with tourism, business and inundation” one of oceanfront homeowner Dorothy Jedziniak said, she strongly feels that the officials should go ahead and implement the new ruling only then a check can be put on the visitors.
“We have a beautiful island;” she said “I ask you, please: hang on to it”
On the other hand shore town have to realize that they are dependent on tourism to keep their business running. 67.8 million People coming to the sate every year, which give the state of New Jersey a business of around #35.5 billion. So it is one thing they can’t cut off with totally. Still many of the shore town feels that they are happy with the locals.