Is my absolute enemy the automobile?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

If more New Jerseyans take trains, subways, buses and public transportation, the state's summertime sky would be less smoggy and the Corzine administration would find it easier to comply with tougher federal standards limiting ground-level ozone, advocates say.

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DEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson said one-third of New Jersey's pollution comes from outside the states, especially coal-burning power plants in the Midwest.

Jackson and other environmentalists, along with public health groups, sought an even stricter ozone standard -- 60 parts per billion. However, Jackson acknowledged, vehicular exhaust is a major contributor, and cars are a difficult pollution source to address.

"New Jerseyans love their cars, so I am not going to say that we don't have problems there," she said in a telephone interview.

State Sen. Bob Smith, the Piscataway Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment Committee in Trenton, was more blunt.

"What the people of New Jersey have to understand is that their absolute enemy . . . is the automobile," Smith said. "We have to make it so (that) . . . trains and buses really become the way in which New Jerseyans get to work each day."

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New Jersey is considered a national leader in mass transit, with a denser network of rails and buses than most anywhere else. However, fast-growing Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties -- which are fighting for a new rail line -- lack an adequate network.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.../803170340/1006

[Jenn! 918]

I was a much happier person when I didn't have a car.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I was a much happier person when I didn't have a car.

But 'absolute enemy'? I thought that was the Islamofascists

[Sister Fracas 5]

I love my hybrid bus... LOL

[Jenn! 918]

Cars are evil, like George W. Bush and corporations.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The New Jersey road system is my ultimate enemy. Where I live at least - not only are the roads in bad condition - but you have to take a wide circuitous route to get anywhere.

No joke - to get to a place that's only 2.5 miles from my house I actually have to drive 5 miles. Who knew.

NJ drivers (at least in my area) are not the best either. I had 3 separate near misses on saturday - 3!!! One from a guy in an SUV who pulled out in front of me without even looking, another person who was in the wrong lane and undertook me on the shoulder (65mph in a 45mph zone) and another guy in front of me who slammed his brakes on and it took me a few seconds to realise he didn't have working brake lights.

Edited March 18, 2008 by Number 6

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

The New Jersey road system is my ultimate enemy. Where I live at least - not only are the roads in bad condition - but you have to take a wide circuitous route to get anywhere.

No joke - to get to a place that's only 2.5 miles from my house I actually have to drive 5 miles. Who knew.

LOL.... Those Route 22 jughandles wearing you down?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The New Jersey road system is my ultimate enemy. Where I live at least - not only are the roads in bad condition - but you have to take a wide circuitous route to get anywhere.

No joke - to get to a place that's only 2.5 miles from my house I actually have to drive 5 miles. Who knew.

LOL.... Those Route 22 jughandles wearing you down?

That seriously is one of the worst roads ever. Horrendous traffic, massive pot-holes, aggressive drivers and parts of the road are underwater whenever it rains.

Edited March 18, 2008 by Number 6

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I avoid 22 like the plague. Use backroads instead. Route 22 is proof that evil does exist!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I avoid 22 like the plague. Use backroads instead. Route 22 is proof that evil does exist!

Yeah I try that too - you have to weigh the time it takes for all the detours with getting stuck in traffic, or blowing out the shocks on your car.

I bought GPS back in December so I can do detour around it - but its the really the only major road that goes out in that direction.

Morris Avenue is another one. They have do sort of street parade in the town center (near the shop rite) up there and the police close the main road and a lot of the residential streets that run off of it. I had great fun when I realised that the detour signs basically directed everyone in a big circle.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Morris Avenue, that's where Kean is, isn't it? I don't get out in that neck of the woods much. I have fun with Route 22 in the Bridgewater area. It's a freakin' maze out there with the intersections of 287, 202 and 206 all in a short stretch of 22. Think jughandles, lots of 'em.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Morris Avenue, that's where Kean is, isn't it? I don't get out in that neck of the woods much. I have fun with Route 22 in the Bridgewater area. It's a freakin' maze out there with the intersections of 287, 202 and 206 all in a short stretch of 22. Think jughandles, lots of 'em.

Kean is further down than where we are - we used to go past it when we lived in Elizabeth. We're further up now -past Union train station.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

But Kean is right next to Union station.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

But Kean is right next to Union station.

I though the main campus is a little further down isn't it? There's some stuff over the road from the lights at (I think) Green street - where the station road is - but it looked industrial. I never paid much attention to it.

[kaydee457 13]

Looks like the liberal democrats are at it again...More social engineering to change your behavior, because of course they know what's best for all of us!