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Local fans should pester their reps if thye want this to happen.
From Newsday:
A proposal to bring NASCAR racing to the Meadowlands appears to have hit the
wall due to opposition from local officials who fear noise and traffic
problems from an auto race track. While a final decision won't be made until
next week, several participants in a meeting Wednesday of dozens of local
officials and members of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority said
the idea got a resounding thumbs down in an informal poll. "As of today,
NASCAR is dead here," said Assemblyman Paul Sarlo, D- Bergen, who is also
mayor of Wood-Ridge. "Because we live in the most densely populated county
in the most densely populated state in the nation, the people in Bergen
County will never, ever warm up to a NASCAR track. There was only one person
in favor of it," said added Assemblywoman Rose Heck, R-Bergen. "All the
others raised their hands against it. They left the meeting as if it were a
done deal, that this was dead." Assembly Minority Leader Paul DiGaetano,
R-Bergen, also said none of the local officials wants to see a NASCAR track
built on land where the Continental Airlines Arena now sits. The area most
likely would be razed after the New Jersey Nets and Devils move to a new
arena in downtown Newark in 2005, and state and local officials are trying
to decide what should be built in its place.
From Newsday:
A proposal to bring NASCAR racing to the Meadowlands appears to have hit the
wall due to opposition from local officials who fear noise and traffic
problems from an auto race track. While a final decision won't be made until
next week, several participants in a meeting Wednesday of dozens of local
officials and members of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority said
the idea got a resounding thumbs down in an informal poll. "As of today,
NASCAR is dead here," said Assemblyman Paul Sarlo, D- Bergen, who is also
mayor of Wood-Ridge. "Because we live in the most densely populated county
in the most densely populated state in the nation, the people in Bergen
County will never, ever warm up to a NASCAR track. There was only one person
in favor of it," said added Assemblywoman Rose Heck, R-Bergen. "All the
others raised their hands against it. They left the meeting as if it were a
done deal, that this was dead." Assembly Minority Leader Paul DiGaetano,
R-Bergen, also said none of the local officials wants to see a NASCAR track
built on land where the Continental Airlines Arena now sits. The area most
likely would be razed after the New Jersey Nets and Devils move to a new
arena in downtown Newark in 2005, and state and local officials are trying
to decide what should be built in its place.
