New Yorkers who live with Holland Tunnel traffic joined Garden State opponents of the N.J. Turnpike Authority's $10.6 billion plan to widen the highway to the Holland Tunnel.
The New Yorkers, representing the Chinatown, Soho and Tribeca neighborhoods already congested with tunnel traffic, said the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s planned Hudson County extension widening proposal is counter to New York City’s efforts to reduce congestion.
Canal Street campaign. “We’ve been working with SoHo, Tribeca and Chinatown to reduce traffic from the Holland Tunnel.”recommended traffic calming measures, traffic signal retiming and other steps to improve safety conditions for residents and local drivers and placed a secondary priority on movement of Holland Tunnel traffic.
“Adding lanes on the Turnpike will just make this worse,” he said. “Congestion pricing will reduce use of the tunnel and the Turnpike. This project will do harm to Chinatown, I urge you to revisit it.” “We don’t think this project will drive additional traffic to the tunnel. A huge amount gets off at Exit 14A in Bayonne to the port,” he said. “They did 1.2 million units of freight . A long range study said by 2050 it be 7.2 million units. That’s a huge part of reason this is being done.”
“There are better alternatives at a fraction of the cost,” said Eric Anderson, a Clean Water Action campaign manager.which said while rehabilitating the 1956 era bridge is an option, it wouldn’t accommodate to weight of additional truck traffic predicted to come to the port.
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