Moving The Neck Further Down The Bottle

We note with bemusement Governor Codey's just-revealed plan to install a third traffic lane on the Garden State Parkway between Exit 80 in Toms River to Exit 63 in Manahawkin.

All this does, IMHO, is moves the traffic bottleneck down further. Right now, it's a zoo getting off the parkway in Exit 80, just before the final three-lane stretch merges down to two, anytime in the evening, most of all a Friday evening when the parkway becomes rife with bennies. It's the residents of Manahawkin and Long Beach Island that are going to feel the inconvenience when their third lane disappears, sometime in the early part of the next decade.

Why not just widen the damn thing all the way down to Atlantic City? Much of the Parkway traffic now is tour buses and others wanting to get down to that gambling mecca.