NJ Turnpike Authority Removes Trees Exposing Properties to Noisy Traffic
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Imagine the sounds of a busy highway running right through your house. Homeowners say that's exactly what's happening now. After the New Jersey Turnpike authority took out the trees blocking that noise.
Neighbors in Woolwich in Gloucester County called Fox29 for help.
Retired school teacher Tom Evans has spent the last eight years sprucing up his Woolwich Township home.
There's only one thing keeping him from the peace and quiet in this summer hill neighborhood. Evans backyard is less than 50 feet from the turnpike. And where a tree barrier once stood is mostly gone now.
Evans has pictures showing the tall green trees that once occupied the area between the turnpike and his backyard. But last week the New Jersey Turnpike Authority removed dozens of those trees leaving a clear view of the road.
Several exits down the turnpike, residents along Ramblewood Parkway are having the same problem.
The spokesperson for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, Tom Feeney, tells us they will not be putting up walls in either Woolwich or Mt Laurel Townships.
He says the only time they will put up a sound wall is if the widening of the turnpike causes an existing neighborhood to be even closer to the highway.
He says in Evans' case they will replace the trees but wouldn't say when or how many would be planted.
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