Posted on 01/24/2020 8:42:21 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
WILDWOOD-Just days ahead of President Donald J. Trump’s historic visit to Wildwood, Governor Phil Murphy’s administration has announced an emergency closure to Route 47, the main thoroughfare on the island.
According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation, “Beginning at 7 a.m., Monday, January 20, NJDOT’s contractor Mount Construction is scheduled to close and detour Route 47 in both directions between Indian Trail Road and Springers Mill Road for priority repairs to a culvert over Dias Creek resulting in sinkholes that are compromising the roadway. The project is anticipated to be completed by June 2020. Local access will be maintained for residents and businesses.”
Although the culvert repair was a scheduled repair, to be conducted later this spring, the administration pushed the project forward this week.
The road closures are expected to impact motorists traveling to the Trump Rally on January 28th at the Boardwalk Convention Center. The closure will not impact motorists traveling along the Garden State Parkway to attend the rally, but will impact those attendees coming from the southwestern area of the state.
Online, Trump supporters likened the closure to Bridgegate, a plot hatched by staffers of former Governor Chris Christie to create traffic in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The road is expected to remain closed through June.
Joseph Rullo, an online conservative media activist with over 350,000 followers on Facebook criticized the timing of the repairs as a political stunt to cause traffic during the President’s visit.
There is a tendency for people to forget that much of South Jersey, especially the Cape May peninsula, is literally built on a foundation of sand. Sinkholes are to be taken seriously. Imagine the stink if the sinkhole collapsed while being pounded by an unusual volume of traffic This is a prudent safety precaution on the part of NJDOT.
So if someone dies because an ambulance can’t get there in time, who gets the blame? My guess is the guy who is just visiting and not the guy who closed the highway unnecessarily.
He better hope his shenanigans don’t impede fire trucks, police and ambulances.
Priority repairs resulting in sinkholes that are compromising the roadway. Only in New Jersey...
He won’t care, Murphy will never be held accountable for anything.
He is Corzlime part 2
I would think that emergency vehicles would be able to use that closed road if the other roads are congested.
What? the word "affect" is not good enough?
There are helicopters circling the area. The sky is lit up. Don’t know what’s going on yet. Will report back later.
In the middle of winter righht
Governor Phil Murphy, such a very little man.
Governor Phil Murphy, such a piece of shit.
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