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Group Criticizes Traffic Projections for East Rutherford, N.J., Arena Project.
Byline: Colleen Diskin
Apr. 28--Developers are underestimating the amount of traffic congestion that will be created by a proposed entertainment and retail complex next to Continental Arena, environmentalists argued Tuesday.
Xanadu's developers failed to review a wide-enough geographic region when they analyzed the traffic impact of the project and did not consider how many more cars would be on the road during the morning commute, critics testified at a public hearing Tuesday
"I've never seen a traffic study omit as much information as this one does," said Janine Bauer, general counsel for the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a consortium of planners and environmental groups concerned with traffic and air quality issues.
Consultants hired by the two companies teaming up to build Xanadu, as well as others hired by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, disagreed. They said they assumed worst-case scenarios -- such as a Nets playoffs game and no mass transit ever connecting to the site -- when making their traffic calculations.
"We analyzed three peak periods when we could expect to find the most number of cars traveling to the arena site," said Kenneth Mackiewicz, executive vice president of Raymond Keyes Associates, the firm hired by developers Mills Corp. and Mack-Cali Realty Corp.
The consultants hired by the sports authority to review the work of Keyes Associates concurred, testifying Tuesday that the Xanadu project wouldn't cripple nearby roads or exacerbate air pollution, even if it eventually is home to a 5,000-room hotel, a minor league ballpark, and up to 20,000 new workers.
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