State Seeks Unused Funds for Expressway Unused Road Money
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State Seeks Unused Funds for Expressway SEE STOHY BELOW Weather HOME Mostly tunny and pleasant to- day, high in mid to upper 70s. Fair tonight, low near (0. Moit- Red Bank, Freehold ly sunny Saturday, high 75-80. FINAL Long Branch Eunday't outlook, fair and pleas- I 7 ant. DIAL 7410010 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 89 YEARS VOL. 90, NO. 33 FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1967 10c PER COPY PAGE ONE Unused Road Money Eyed for Expressway By CHARLES A. JOHNSTON I But if the Rt. 278 diversion of set up interstate connections | County. From there a motorist TRENTON — The state tried interstate funds is approved, an with both Pennsylvania and New!could travel north to the pro- omething new yesterday to get entire new expressway financial York. j| posed Rt. 29 Freeway in he overdue Central Jersey Ex- plan would evolve. He said: j Hamilton Township, just outside iressway System back on the Mr. Goldberg said, there are no "Since New Jersey has a sub- Trenton, and then across the oad. freeways in operation between stantial backlog of highway East-West leg of the Central Jer- Using a stalemate in Union Trenton and Asbury Park to needs, it appears to us that the sey Expressway. bounty over development of In- handle the daily traffic volume best resolution of this present Adds 49 Miles erstate Highway 278, Transporta- of 18,000 to 41,000 vehicles antic- problem may be through the re- Mr, Goldberg said the switch ion Commissioner David J. Gold- ipated by 1990. assignment of the • interstatejwouf,i add'only ) miles to the DEDICATION PLANNED — Brig. Gen. Paul A. Feyereisen, director of the U.S. Mallard program, will conduct rib- ierg asked the U.S. Bureau of He said the entire 37 addition- mileage now designated as j present interstate highway sys- bon cutting and dedication ceremonies at 11 a.m. next Friday for the new Mallard building on Hance Ave., New Roads to use S60 million, ear- al miles could be completed be- Route 278 to another area of the tem, three of which already are marked there, for the expressway Shrewsbury, at the edge of Red Bank Airport. Before moving into the new structure, leased from Science Center fore October, 1972, if approved state which is more receptive to in existence and nine of which plan. promptly. highway construction. are authorized under the feder- Corp. of Red Bank, the Mallard project occupied space at the Hexagon building in Fort Monmoufh. The Mallard Gov. Richard J. Hughes, said Interstate funds are dispersed Mr. Goldberg also called for al interstate road system proj- Project it a co-operative effort by the government of the United States, Canada and Australia for the develop- e supports the plan. on a 90-10 per cent basis, federal an extension of Interstate 276 d. ment of a communications system for use by the field armies of the three countries. (Register Staff Photo) The expressway system would to state, whereas ordinary high- from the Levittown-Bristol area He estimated the cost of con- include a Garden State Thruway way aid is 50-50. of Pennsylvania across the Dela- structing the remaining 37 miles between Woodbridge and Toms Commissioner Goldberg pointed ware River to a link with In- at $60 million, $40 million less River areas and a cross-state out that the expressway would terstate Rt. 295 in Burlington (See ROAD, Pg. 2, Col. 7) Bus Line Employees Opposed eeway between Trenton and the 3eImar-Asbury Park areas. Mr. Goldberg said the unused !6D million would be j used, if jkayed for the cross state road. Aldene Settlement Expected Promised by Gov. Hughes in Multiple Dwellings, iis 1965 election campaign as a TRENTON - State officials railroad plan. The argument is|minals of the Jersey Central troduced in the state Legislature, iroject that would be completed •aid last night that they expect with employees of state bus lines. Railroad. n 1962, Congress, in 1964, adopted ly 1969, the expressway has been to settle this weekend the $8.7 Held in the balance is the pro- ll brought all Central passen- i law' forbidding federal funds blocked by U.S. Sen. Clifford P. million argument over aid from posed $30 million electrification, gers into the Newark Pennsyl- for any state railroad moderni- Case, R-N.J. the U.S. to the state's Aldene new station and grade crossing vania Station from where they zation project where any trans- Sen. Case has refused to go Zone Plan Opposed elimination plan of the New York could go downtown on PATH portation employees might los long with a bill that would per- LITTLE SILVER - Petitions quiet residential town it now is."zone suggested for commercial and Long Branch Railroad be- (Port Authority Trans Hudson) their jobs or be downgraded. mit the N.J. Highway Authority, opposing multiple dwellings and Mr. Phifer said last night that use extends for a distance of ween South Amboy and Shrews- tubes, or uptown on the Penn- Name Change The federal law also provided that operates the Garden State an "informally organized" group, more than 800 feet, Mr. Phifer bury-Little Silver. sylvania. extension of the Prospect Ave. that federal funds could not be Parkway, to eliminate free sec-, b'usjness zone are ^ing circuiated with a nucleus of a half-dozen said, If the sfcme standards were !-and charge tolls in Middle- _ Drive* Pushed (See related story, Page 3) Transportation Commissioner used to upgrade one kind of ljn (hjs borough borough residents, got the cam-applied here as in the Markham RARITAN TOWNSHIP - David J. Goldberg said Wednes- transportation at the expense ol ex, Union, Ocean and Cape May The newly completed master paign underway. He said at least Place Shopping Plaza where the Gilbert W. Bennett, Planning "We expect to work out an day that there was a possibility another. counties. plan, not yet adopted by the 12 petitions are circulating now. average store width is 18 feet, Board chairman and leader agreement on the basic issue and that $8.7 million in expected fed- This is what created the rub i The senator contends local Planning Board, recommends The master plan would allow | more than 40 stores could be of a drive to change the name this will clear the way for eral aid for the rail changes that New Jersey. riders should be given equivalent both. up to 12 apartments per acre on built, he declared, of this township to Hazlet, agreement on the shore line," made the Aldene Plan possible Employees of bus companie: free roads if they are to be The I master plan suggests re- the 60 rezoned. acres, Mr. Phifer "I don't believe all the stores said last night that his re- and Herbert A. Thomas, top rail- might be withheld. contend the Aldene Plan may en pushed off the parkway. zoning approximately 60 vacant said. "Does this mean that 720 in the existing business area ever ception has been "very, very road deputy in the Department But yesterday he said that ne- danger them and negate theii acres west of the upper reaches apartments could be built?" he:have been filled," Mr. Phifer good" so far, with more than of Transportation. gotiations were under way with j salary claims, of Little Silver Creek and front- asked, said. 1,600 signatures already col- The Aldene plan, as of last bus drivers and mechanics to Speaking for Commissione ing, for the most part, on the New If so, several thousand people Problems Feared lected. April 30, eliminated ferry boats settle the problem. Goldberg, Mr. Thomas said thi Education York and Long Branch Railroac could be added to the borough's He said those opposing the re- Mr. Bennett said he is and Jersey City and Newark ter- After the Aldene Plan was in- (See ALDENE, Pg. 3, Col. 4) tracks for a "planned unit" mul- population, and construction of zoning are fearful the business "much more confident" now tiple-dwelling residential zone, additional school classrooms zone extension will increase traf- that the 1,800 signatures he That area now is zoned for light might be necessary, he said. fic problems at the corner of needs to place the name- Unit Sets industrial use. Mr. Phifer noted that at the Prospect Ave., Willow Dr. and change question on the bal- The master plan also recom- June- 8 public hearing, Council- Kings Rd. lot in November will be col- 8-Town Group to Map Battle tne 5 mends -rezoning the west side of man Paul Bragar, a Planning The Planning Board has said lected by Sept. dead- Prospect Ave.- from Markham Board member, said that body is it will hold another public hear- line. PI. to Willow Dr. from residen- envisioning $200 to $3G0-a-month ing specifically to discuss the Names of 38 per cent of the Appeal tial to commercial use. apartments for retired couples. proposed apartment zone and 5,800 registered voters in the Against Hike in Water Rate TRENTON — The New Jersey Preferred "We don't think they could rent business zone extension. Mr. Phi- township are needed. LITTLE SILVER - Chairman Education Association instructed luxury apartments in that area," fer said the petitions will be pre-_ Backers of the name-change Red Bank, which has its own The subsequent news that thi The cajnpaign to gather peti- August E. Roemer of* the Munic- he said, "I'd like to know if any- sented to the board at that time. claim that the name Raritan water supply. federal government is holdin; its lawyers yesterday to appeal tions opposing the rezoning is ipal Public Service Co-ordinat- one has expressed willingness to At the.