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Real Estate
in Spring Lake NJ
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Spring Lake
NJ News
Barricades Crimping Business
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
By EILEEN STILWELL
Courier-Post Staff
CHERRY HILL
It didn't take long for Scott Caris, owner of Future Fitness
on Route 70 here, to figure out that barricading median
"cut-throughs" on a congested stretch of Route 70 might be bad
for business.
Monday was the first day of a two-month experiment between the
entrance to Interstate 295 and Haddonfield
Road. For safety's sake, the New Jersey
Department of Transportation is blocking nine cut-throughs with taxicab-yellow
steel drums to prevent U-turns. Two dedicated left-turn lanes into Barclay Shopping Center and at Cooper Landing Road
will remain open.
"It's tough enough to get people to drive 70 to begin
with. Now, it's just going to get harder. I've had complaints all day from
staff and members," Caris said. "It's scary. This is supposed to
be prime time for my business with people trying to get in shape for the
beach."
Across Route 70 in Barclay
Shopping Center, Mark Rowand,
chef/owner of Emerald Fish, is looking forward to feeding his regular
clientele and families en route to the Jersey Shore.
"Seems to me this so-called experiment is only going to
make traffic worse by forcing everybody onto the traffic lights," said
Rowand Monday while pan-searing tilapia filets for the lunch crowd.
Route 70 has been the subject of too many studies and too
little action, said Ed Sanborn, owner of Sir Speedy Printer, on the
westbound side of the state-owned highway.
"The reality is the road is overloaded and the only way
to fix it is to widen it to three lanes in each direction," Sanborn
said. "I was a little surprised that businesspeople had to find out
about this in the newspaper. With some notice we could have warned regular
customers and advised them how to get here under the circumstances. Today
is only day one. By tomorrow, I suspect it could get ugly."
Art Campbell, president of the Cherry Hill Regional Chamber of
Commerce, said the state Department of Transportation reneged on a promise
to have three or four more left-turn stacking lanes in place before closing
the cut-throughs.
"If the business community is to be a cooperative partner
in improving our infrastructure and communicating with the new
administration, we need to have confidence that commitments made in writing
are taken seriously by NJDOT," said Campbell in a letter dated
Thursday to DOT Commissioner Kris Kolluri.
Four of the closed cut-throughs are located in the Erlton
section of the township; two are between Kingston Road and Route 41; and three
are in front of Barclay Farms.
"DOT initiated this pilot program at the request of the
mayor in order to improve safety," department spokeswoman Erin Phalon
said. "We will be closely monitoring conditions and congestion during
the next two months and then we'll determine how to move forward."
"Lots of accidents'
Few would argue that Route 70 through Cherry
Hill is frustrating and dangerous for motorists. But there is
little support for the alternative: Grabbing land, adding lanes and replacing
the grassy median strip with a concrete barrier, which is what DOT has had
on its drawing board for 15 years.
"We want to cooperate and keep up a working relationship
with the DOT. We know crossovers are dangerous and we've seen lots of
accidents because of them," said Jeffrey Lucas, chairman of the Cherry
Hill Business Partnership, a volunteer organization.
"What we do not want is for Route 70 to become a
high-speed highway between Pennsauken and Mount Laurel
like Route 130. We want extra space to come out of the middle with more
left-turn stacking lanes, so neither residents nor businesses are
shortchanged. Our understanding was that those lanes would have been built
before the closings. With enough outrage, maybe this won't last beyond two
weeks, instead of two months," said Lucas.
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Tip #19
Home Buying Tip, Online Searching:
Searching online is a very effective way to look for real estate in New Jersey, or
anywhere for that matter. Good
websites allow you to search through multiple MLS’s so you can
cover a wide range. For example
here you can Search for
NJ Real Estate.
After you find the house you are
interested in you can inquiry with the real estate agency to find out
more information or to arrange an appointment to view the house.
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Tip #18
Home Selling Tip, Targeting Out Of State:
When you sell your home you sometimes have to put yourself in the
potential buyers’ shoes. In New Jersey many home buyers are from the surrounding
area, like New York or Pennsylvania.
Knowing this can allow your agent to
market your house more effectively.
If he/she will advertise in a New York publication they can describe
the proximity to NY. This allows
your potential Buyer Base to expand.
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