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Swimming
River Road -- Truck Traffic
Assemblywoman Handlin introduces bill to ban 96-inch
wide trucks from local roads: Please write Amy Handlin
in support of Bill 4197 to ban 96-in. wide trucks from local
roads (except for local deliveries). Her email address is
AswHandlin@njleg.org
and her mailing address is 890 Main St, Belford, NJ 07718.
She is also collecting signatures on a petition in support
of her bill. The petition can be downloaded here
and mailed to her.
Marpal Expansion Application: The LVGA
and residents along Swimming River Road are extremely grateful
to the Monmouth County Freeholders' decision on July 27, 2006,
for rejecting the expansion request of Marpal (Republic Services),
a recycling company in Tinton Falls. If allowed, the expansion
would have increased the amount of truck traffic on Swimming
River Road by allowing Marpal to expand its hours of operation
and increasing the amount of waste they accept each day.
Although the county’s Solid Waste Advisory Council recommended
approval of the Marpal expansion proposal, the Freeholders,
after two public hearings, listened to the residents of Monmouth
County and rejected the expansion request.
Opposition to the Marpal expansion was wide spread.
The LVGA collected over 1000 signatures from area citizens
on a petition opposing the expansion. Tinton Falls residents
presented a similar petition to the county while the townships
of Middletown and Tinton Falls passed resolutions opposing
the Marpal expansion.
The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders conducted
two hearings on the Marpal application on March 23rd, 2005
and July 13, 2006 where many individuals from both Lincroft
and Tinton Falls spoke. Members of the public who spoke mentioned
traffic, noise, pollution and safety concerns in showing their
unanimous opposition to the plans. A police officer and resident
of Swimming River Road estimated that a large truck passes
his home once every 2 minutes. Another resident complained
that, because of noise from passing trucks, he cannot be heard
while talking on the phone. Another resident said that
vibrations from trucks on the road shake his house as early
as 5 AM and cause him to loose sleep. A Tinton Falls resident
commented on the unsafe conditions for school children walking
along Wayside Road with no sidewalks and many large trucks
passing by. Various residents complained about truck drivers
that speed and disobey traffic laws. LVGA Director Carol Baker
presented information regarding the health hazards of diesel
particulate pollution. Past LVGA Co-President, Roger Foss,
presented data demonstrating how Marpal has grown far faster
than other landfills in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and that
they are accepting a significant amount of waste that originates
in counties other than Monmouth. Noting that Monmouth County
has 3 recycling/landfill facilities such as Marpal in close
proximity to each other, he called for the Freeholders to
look into opening a recycling facility in another area of
Monmouth County rather than expanding the Marpal facility
in Tinton Falls.
Read a letter from Mayor Hall of Middletown regarding the
Marpal application here.
The LVGA would like to thank the townships of Middletown
and Tinton Falls for passing resolutions and writing letters
in opposition to the Marpal expansion. We especially
would like to thank the individuals who spoke at the public
hearings, wrote letters or called the Freeholders. In particular
we recognize the efforts of Walter Horan and Barbara & Bill
Thorpe of Lincroft who deligently gave their time in organizing
and voicing opposition to the Marpal expansion.
While the rejection of the Marpal expansion application
is a large step in the right direction, the LVGA would like
to see the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders establish
truck routes or weight limits on county roads such as Swimming
River Road (CR50). Many truck drivers use local roads
to access the current landfill/recycling center operations
in Tinton Falls. Truck drivers must be required to use
Routes 18, 34 and 35 which were designed to handle large vehicles
rather than using the shortest routes possible, such as Swimming
River Road, to get to and from their destinations. The
LVGA also recommends that the state open the Garden State
Parkway to truck traffic between exit 105 (Eatontown) and
exit 117 (Keyport). (Currently the Parkway is closed to truck
traffic between exits 105 and the NJ Turnpike. We do NOT feel
that the Parkway should allow trucks between the Turnpike
and exit 117.)
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