Comments on: New Report Confirms: Turnpike Widening Still a Turkey

By: Shine

Shine — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:03:11 +0000

Wider roads mean more cars. Do we need more cars?

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By: NJ Turnpike: Missing the Money for the Trees | Mobilizing the Region

NJ Turnpike: Missing the Money for the Trees | Mobilizing the Region — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:53:37 +0000

[...] history of the Turnpike widening project, which has been poorly justified and promises little but induced traffic and more sprawl. The trees would have offered noise and pollution mitigation along the widened [...]

By: Could New Leadership at NJ Turnpike Bring A Fresh Approach to Road Widenings? | Mobilizing the Region

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:42:39 +0000

[...] has argued that this wasteful approach extends to the giant-scale widenings, which don’t include demand management strategies and are basically designed to fail. Past experience shows that the expansions are likely to trigger [...]

By: Mike Mancuso

Mike Mancuso — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:09:56 +0000

I don’t mind the Turnpike being widened, traffic congestion, especially on the weekends, is just awful on this strecth of the highway. But I think from exits 8A to 6 they could have just decided to add two additional lanes in each direction, instead of extending the current car truck lanes. Five lanes each way handles the volume fine once you get north of 8A. Could have saved a little money, as they wouldn’t have to widen the truck lanes between 8A and 9. I guess either way it wouldn’t matter. Widening the roadway will require the exit and entrance ramps to be reconstructed.

I travel often between exits 5 and 16W, and to me one annoying part of the car/truck lanes is when one side is closed because of constuction, or an accident. Ex.. Just a couple weeks ago on a Saturday night, the truck lanes were closed for construction, starting at exit 14. The work they were doing was all the way down near exit 8A. Seems like a waste to have 30+ miles of highway closed for no reason, and it causes needless congestion on the open roadway. They should include ways to cross over (Other than exiting and re-entering at a rest stop).

** I sometimes take I-295 to I-195 to get on at 7A, but I-295 is just a mess between exits 45 and 52, and they are starting to work on that now as well. Nice that they start major projects on the two major north-south highways in Central NJ at the exact same time. Both several years overdue.

By: Tickets are on Sale for Tri-State’s 2009 Annual Benefit! | Mobilizing the Region

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:45:04 +0000

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By: Concerned

Concerned — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:17:11 +0000

Perhaps if those who are for the Big mistake owned land that was going to be stolen by corrupt authorities under a blank of eminent domain. They would not be so apt to have the misconception that this will be any less another than a huge mistake by people that couldn’t see a good thing if it bit them.

By: Douglas Willinger

Douglas Willinger — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:35:02 +0000

“There’s more to transportation than wider highways.”

Agreed.

But when do your organizations ever favor any addition of freeway capacity?

By: Turnpike Authority to Pave Over Central Jersey Parklands « Mobilizing the Region

Fri, 01 May 2009 17:46:57 +0000

[...] expansion of the New Jersey Turnpike from interchanges 6-9 will have plenty of impacts, from more cars on the road to loss of wetlands. In Bordentown Township, where officials and residents have opposed the [...]

By: R Troy

R Troy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:09:19 +0000

The NJ Turnpike widening is desperately needed. Not for growth, but to handle existing traffic. I use mass transit and commuter rail daily, and prefer government funding to go in that direction, but this road loses the bulk of its capacity when you suddenly hit a certain point heading south. Backups can be for 20 miles. Going north even someone stopped on the side of the road brings traffic to a complete stop. The pollution and fuel waste here is obscene, let alone the effect it has on people.

At the same time, freight rail needs to be improved in this corridor, especially for freight heading to NYC, Long Island, and Ct. The long awaited NJ to Long Island freight rail connection that PANYNJ was created to built is needed now far more then ever. Doing this at the same time (along with related rail improvements) would take care of much of the eventual traffic growth on the NJ Turnpike.