Comments on: NJ Year in Review: A Loss of Focus http://blog.tstc.org/2008/01/08/nj-year-in-review-a-loss-of-focus/ News and opinion from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:28:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Nathanael Nerode http://blog.tstc.org/2008/01/08/nj-year-in-review-a-loss-of-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Nathanael Nerode Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:50:58 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/2008/01/08/nj-year-in-review-a-loss-of-focus/#comment-141 Shouldn't the Parkway and Turnpike widenings have FLUNKED the EIS requirement? After all, according to their own documents, they not only don't achieve any improvement, they actually make the original traffic problem (which they were designed to solve) worse! The law requires mitigation for induced problems, and I don't think there's any mitigation possible for that other than cancelling the project. How on earth did they manage to keep the projects going? Are they just lying in the EIS or something? Shouldn’t the Parkway and Turnpike widenings have FLUNKED the EIS requirement? After all, according to their own documents, they not only don’t achieve any improvement, they actually make the original traffic problem (which they were designed to solve) worse!

The law requires mitigation for induced problems, and I don’t think there’s any mitigation possible for that other than cancelling the project.

How on earth did they manage to keep the projects going? Are they just lying in the EIS or something?

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