Increase in traffic in Lincroft area disturbing to resident

Truck traffic in Lincroft on local roads, especially on Route 50 commonly known as Swimming River Road and Middletown Lincroft Road, is abhorrent, and the engineer who complained about the endeavors of the Lincroft Village Green Association needs an update on the facts (“Roundabout in Lincroft will only worsen situation,” letters, Dec. 13).

Some 40 years ago my husband and I began to build our own home on the family farm located on Swimming River Road. In those years — and we moved in the year Brookdale Community College opened, 1967 — much has changed with the ever-expanding development of all the communities that surround Middletown of which Lincroft is the southernmost village, and the relentless expansion of the college and the failure of government to provide adequate routes to access this college.

Government has refused to listen to the people who are residents on this residential corridor and with the location of the industrial area in Tinton Falls — which has access from major highways — Route 50 has been transformed into the “gateway to the dumps” because it is more convenient for truck drivers to break the law and use Route 50 as a truck route. I want to know if this engineer would want to own a home on a residential street that its very contours are inadequate for the purposes he advocates.

There are developments at the intersection of Swimming River Road and County Route 537 that exceed a million dollars-plus in value on the Willowbrook Tract. Would you call it good planning to run the gateway to the dumps there? They have accomplished that!

This poor planning has ruined any quality of life in our neighborhoods, endangered our lives and our health and diminished the value of what we own! That’s planning?

The time has come for Tinton Falls to take responsibility for what that community creates and it’s time for state and county government to provide infrastructure to support the relentless development that they approve. When this area was all rural they failed to do that and only salivated over the money to be made! Today the remedies are so expensive they are nearly impossible.

The Lincroft Village Green Association has attempted to make proposals that are possible given the hand dealt by failing government!

Barbara R. Thorpe

Lincroft section of Middletown