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Millstone Baypass: Another Proposal
These articles were published in U.S. 1 Newspaper on November 18,
1998. All rights reserved.
Though the controversial Millstone Bypass proposal
has undergone some major modifications, it continues to remain
controversial.
The new design for the elimination of the Route 1 traffic lights at
Harrison Street and Penns Neck, unveiled by the state last Thursday,
November 12, offered some protection for the Delaware & Raritan Canal
and for the elm trees that line Washington Road leading into
Princeton.
The Department of Transportation’s redesign does not change the basic
bypass — a l.8 mile roadway that would begin near the Amtrak
bridge
and Route 571 and curve through land owned by Sarnoff Corporation
and go over Route 1 just south of Harrison Street. But the redesign
would eliminate the previously proposed connection between the bypass
and Washington Road on the West Windsor side of the canal. Traffic
would now flow from the grade separated overpass at Route 1 to
Harrison
Street, where it could then proceed along Harrison toward Nassau
Street
or turn left on Faculty Road to connect with Washington Road.
This plan would also preserve all the elm trees along Washington Road,
five of which would have been removed under the original plan. And
the revised plan would keep Washington Road open between Route 1 and
the D&R Canal. It would permit southbound traffic on Route 1 to turn
right onto Washington Road and head into Princeton via that elm-lined
entranceway. And traffic leaving Princeton could use Washington Road
to access Route 1 southbound.
One factor in the redesign appeared to be the inclusion of all 100
elm trees along Washington Road on the state register of historic
places. That was largely due to the lobbying of the citizens’ group
called Sensible Transportation Options Partnership (STOP) and another
group, Friends of the Washington Road Elms.
But STOP apparently won’t stop its opposition to the
plan. “It has failed to resolve the basic transportation issue,
which is what all this is about in the first place,” says Alan
Goodheart, a Harrison Street resident and member of STOP. “This
is not much different from the original plan except that now they
have decided to keep Washington Road open.”
Goodheart feels that once the estimates are made public of how much
traffic would be added to the Harrison Street and Faculty Road
intersection,
this proposal will be rejected. “But the good thing that has come
out of this new proposal is that now the DOT has been able to break
things loose and get things moving in a positive way. The new proposal
is a positive political gesture, in that the DOT was willing to make
changes in the design,” says Goodheart.
“They have cut out the truly bad environmental aspects of the
previous plan, and now we can do something about traffic
improvement,”
says Goodheart. What the DOT has to do, he says, is figure out a way
to evenly distribute the traffic between the three roads, and not
overburden any one particular road. “This plan has got people
to keep at it and propose more ideas. Hopefully we will see something
good,” says Goodheart.
But Lynn Middleton, DOT project director, thinks it’s already pretty
good. “We would not have proposed this plan unless we thought
it would work. Minor changes in traffic patterns at Harrison will
ensure that the road is not overburdened.”
Just seeing some movement towards building the bypass is regarded
as a positive sign by many. Dianne Brake of the MSM Regional Council
says that if the community feels that this is a better design they
will back it. “What the MSM wants is to see the bypass built.
And keeping the trees and the waterways are important to us too. We
are happy that Washington Road can be kept open.” Brake said she
would wait to see the numbers from the DOT before she gave an opinion
about the traffic concerns at Harrison and Faculty road. “MSM
will support the town in whatever decision they make to see the bypass
built,” she says.
While no one has done a poll, many motorists who regularly drive into
and out of downtown Princeton would argue that the more roads, the
merrier. Keeping Washington Road open has to be considered a major
improvement. And reinstating the proposed connector road along the
canal from the bypass to Washington Road would be another improvement.
That would involve cutting down only five of the “historic”
elms, but in the interest of improving traffic flow that hardly seems
criminal.
As Goodheart says, “Stay tuned. There will be more to this.”
— Teena Chandy
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