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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.