Revisions to New Jersey's State Plan may give smart growth and transportation reform advocates more ammunition to press NJ DOT to emphasize road maintenance and mass transit . However, the help will be mostly of a moral nature, since state agencies routinely ignore the plan, and it has no enforcement provision. The bypass separates regional through traffic from local traffic.
Access is limited.
It minimizes sprawl. It minimizes adverse impacts on adjacent communities. Alternative circulation patterns using existing roads are not feasible. Route 92's backers used it to promote the highway's construction, even though it would do more to draw development away from real centers such as Princeton, New Brunswick and Trenton and toward open spaces in South Brunswick. But it's not all good news from the new State Plan.