Stadium traffic won’t clog local roads

According to the study commissioned by the Middlesex County Improvement Authority and the intended owner of the new team that would use the proposed baseball stadium on Route 33 in Monroe, "Middlesex County is a comparatively large and affluent professional baseball market." Assuming this to be the case, and assuming that this would be the market on which the team and the stadium would rely in order to be viable, why would the proponents want to locate the stadium on the southern border of the county, in the area of the county most remote from its population centers? If it is to be in Monroe, wouldn’t it make better economic sense to put it near the northern border of the township, rather than on the southern border?

That being said, I think that the fears of heavy traffic on local roads because of a stadium on Route 33 that have been expressed by Millstone officials would most likely turn out to be unfounded. When Great Adventure was being built, I recall one official in Roosevelt being certain that Route 571 would be jammed with traffic seeking a shortcut to get there from Exit 8 of the Turnpike. As it turned out, that never happened, which is not surprising since most drivers prefer to stay on main highways rather than risk getting lost on unfamiliar local roads.

Michael L. Ticktin

Roosevelt