The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-02-08
COMMERCE CHAMBER LABORS
UNDER MISREPRESENTATION.
Building of Mays Landing Pleasant
vile Road Would not Interfere
With State Road Plan.

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Commerce of Atlantic City, with ref
erence to the construction of the Mays
misunderstanding Road, because
they believe the Egg Harbor-Absecon
Road should be built first, is based ap-
parently upon a misrepresentation of
the programme of the State Highway
Department.
Under the plans announced by the
State highway officials, they will build
this year only the road between Ham
monitor and Egg Harbor, therefore,
the building of the road between Mays
Landing and P~leasantville would not
in any wise interfere with proper de-
tour around the state work, as all of
the state work will be above Egg Har-
Dor and the White Horse Pike would
be as passable as it has ever been be-
low Egg Harbor.
The natural detour out of Harmon
ton will probably be the road through
Barstow, Green Bank and Egg Har-
Dor, and during the time when the
Mays misunderstanding Road is
torn UP, the natural detour around
that will be from Mays Landing to
Egg Harbor and thence by the White
Horse Pike to Absecon and the Ocean
Boulevard from Absecon through
P~leasantville.
1t can, therefore. readily be seen
that the objection of the Chamber of
Commerce to the county making this
necessary improvement is not based
upon actual facts, and that there
would be no stoppage thereby of traffic
to and from Atlantic City. 1t is GER
tainly to be hoped that the people in
Atlantic City will understand that the
Mays Notwithstanding Road is
a matter vital to the interests of the
county, and that it is of first impor-
lance to connect the county seat with
the large centres of population along
the %seacoaSt.
In any case, the Board of Freehold
ers are the duly constituted body hav-
ing the decision in this matter, and
undue interference with the preroga-
tives of the Board of F~reeholders has
always resulted in injury to Atlantic
County. The residents of Pleasant
vile, Mays Landing and this portion
of Atlantic County, will not be will
ing to surrender the benefits which
they are entitled to be properly con-
structed highways.
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there seems to be a disposition on the
part of certain interests to object to
almost any programme which the
Board of .Freeholders of this county
may adopt.
From a purely county standpoint,
there is probably no more important
road to be constructed than the Mays
Landing-Pleasantville Road. This
road leads to the county seat, which
during severe weather and during the
spring thaw, is practically cut off from
motor traffic to and from Atlantic
Civ or adjoining towns.
The other important highways in
Atlantic County have been taken owe
by the State Highway Department and
it is presumed they will be built in
due course. AS Atlantic County is in
good financial condition and can I'M
dertake this work, it would seem to be
good judgment on the part of the
Board of Freeholders to build this
road as soon as. possible, and every
effort should be made to cooperate
with them in this matter, and to avoid
the. difficulties which have arisen in
the past and which have generally re-
suited to the disadvantage of Atlantic
County. Had the White Horse Pike
been built at the time when it was
first projected, this work could have
been completed at a eost of $26,6 per
mile, whereas now. according to the
estimates made by the State Highway
Department, this work will cost $685.,
400 ner mile, and in the meantime At
lantic City has beer without the bene-
fits of a properly constructed highway
to Philadelphia.