Racers and race fans, I copied this notice off of Englishtown's website, www.racewaypark.com , and I just sent my humble opinions to the the two assemblymen responsible. We need to stop this RIGHT NOW!! Otherwise, we'll be outta luck. ATTENTION RACEFANS: Raceway Park needs your help and support!!! On Thursday August 5th, a Public Meeting is being held to discuss the noise levels that affect the residents of Manalapan and Englishtown. Monmouth County Assemblymen Michael J. Panter and Robert L. Morgan will discuss their recent legislation proposal to remove the Motor Vehicle Racetrack Exemption from the Noise Control Act of 1971. This exemption is what makes it possible for racetracks of all types to operate unmuffled vehicles. This move would be devastating to Raceway Park, and could set off a number of changes the way racetracks operate both here in our area and all over the state. Founded in 1965, long before the wave of housing developments that now dominate our area, Raceway Park has remained a place for motorsport enthusiasts of all kinds to come and enjoy the sports they love. Raceway Park has been able to stay open these many years based largely in part on the vocal support of the many local race fans who have helped us to fend off these attacks in the past. We now ask for that support again, so that we may silence those who oppose Raceway Park once and for all. The meeting is open to the public and will take place on Thursday August 5th at 7:00 PM in Manalapan Township at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters located at 125 Symmes Rd. The library is a mere 1/4 mile from the corner of Route 9 and Symmes Rd. and very easy to access. If you are unable to attend, please contact Assemblymen Panter and Assemblymen Morgan at 732-741-5599 and voice your opinion. You may also fax your thoughts to 732-741-0012 or contact them via email at AsmPanter@njleg.org or AsmMorgan@njleg.org. If you e-mail, please copy Raceway Park at etownrcwy@aol.com. You can send a letter to them at New Jersey General Assembly, Legislative Office, The Galleria, 2 Bridge Avenue, Bldg. 2, Red Bank, New Jersey 07701. Please come out and support Raceway Park, the home of fast family fun for over 40 years and for many years to come.
This is my e-mail to them: To: Assemblyman Michael J. Panter...Dear Sir, I would like to share my opinions with you, regarding your proposed elimination of the Motor Vehicle Ractrack Exemption from the Noise Control Act of 1971. I speak, not just as an avid race fan, but also as an interested taxpayer and lifelong resident of the State of New Jersey. Since 1965, Old Bridge Township Raceway Park has offered a place for enthusiasts such as myself to engage in our favorite sport, auto racing. The Racing Community, racers, spectators, and Raceway Park itself, should not be forced to make changes that, while popular with some local homeowners, would effectively put Raceway Park out of business! Several issues come to mind, regarding your proposal. Raceway park is one of the largest taxpayers (property tax, sales tax, income tax) and revenue attractions in the area. The amount of money that racers and race fans spend locally in restaurants, motels, gas stations, shopping malls and the like, runs into the millions of dollars. One positive effect that Raceway Park can take credit for is that they have provided younger car enthusiasts with a safe, regulated environment in which to test and race their cars. If a safe haven such as Raceway Park were to close it's doors, I shudder to think what would happen if those young racers took to the streets like they did before Raceway Park was consructed. While I'm sure that some local residents don't appreciate hearing the sound of racecars that our community hears as music, they, and you, need to remember that Raceway Park was located in this area for many years before developers were (for some strange reason) permitted to construct private homes in an area that should have been developed as light industry/commercial in the first place! We should not be punished for the mistakes made by the local planning/zoning boards twenty years after Raceway Park was built! In the interest of fairness, you must see my point, correct? When taking up an issue such as this, a Legislative Representative such as yourself needs to look at how the issue affects the most people, not just a vocal few who were the catalyst for your proposal. In closing, I would just like to ask you to make sure that you see all sides of the issue rather than simply react to what a (vocal) minority wants you to do. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Douglas Hecker. Bloomfield, NJ.
You might want to add, if you contact them again, some statistics that compare and contrast auto accidents that involve high speed racing at the Raceway versus public roads. The raceway wins hands down. Some scary death statistics might actually work in our favor for once.
I know the operations are differant but both have the same problems. Here in CT at Bradley international, a airport that has been here for many many years, they allowed development around the airport. Now we have people who have been living near the airport for less then a year complaining about the noise from the airport and are demanding that the airport change the flight paths of the planes so that they don't fly over their houses. Come on people wake up. The airport or the race track, both make alot of noise, but when you by a house , you know about them. I f you don't like noise DON"T move near them. Its like moving near the train tracks, you know about the noise. I hate people who think that the whole world revoles around them:af:
I remember back in the late 80s when they were first building all of those "McMansions" in Manalapan, which borders E-Town to the south, I used to drive to the track through the middle of all that construction thinking to myself "Somebody MUST be crazy to build these rich people's houses this close to the track". BTW, Raceway Park has a small airport on the property as well, making even MORE reason not to build houses in the neighborhood. Now they've built ANOTHER development just to the north of the track as well. They are closing in. :af:
Here is what I will send them: Ahem... Listen to me, you bureaucratic douche-bags. To even consider the elimination of the Motor Vehicle Racetrack Exemption from the Noise Control Act of 1971 with regard to Old Bridge Township Raceway Park is just another demonstration of just how petty and asinine our legislators are. It is obvious even to the most seasoned jackass that you have your heads so far up your Hillarys that you can taste yesterdays lunch. So, let me ask you: Whose pocket are you in? Which big developer is pulling your strings, you bunch of puppets? It is obvious. No person with a cerebral cortex developed outside of a womb could think of closing down a safe, regulated racing facility, forcing boys, girls, men and women to race on the highways and byways of New Jersey. But, as blow-meat for the lumben proletariat, I suppose I give you too much credit. It is the whiners with credit cards full of debt and real estate taxes so high they must smoke crack just to be able to cope with writing the monthly mortgage check who are obviously the ones threatening to vote you out. You arent smart enough to risk your puny political careers by putting yourself into the middle of such an explosive debate as this. So, you must be on the receiving end of blackmail or physical threat from some corporate hump looking to make yet another million while he carelessly tramples on the ambitions of the minority. Like lawyers who entertain frivolous lawsuits, you will entertain the notion that dorks too stupid to think clearly when they plunk down half a mil for a house near a racetrack and airport, should be bailed out and coddled when they realize that THEY dont have an interest in racing, therefore it must be stopped. Of course, Im sure youll agree that if you dont understand something, and therefore dont like it, then it must be bad and certainly needs to be eliminated. Well, let me tell you something, endomorph: drag racing didnt start at a cocktail party while sipping tea with your pinky sticking out. No. It is the voice of the rebels. And as such, well rebel against your tea party much in the way a 13 to 1 compression engine rebels against 87 octane gasoline. So, go suck your thumb and wet your bed, you bunch of cry-baby pecker-heads. Your day will come. I hope your family gets abducted by aliens and their entrails are strung like porch lights around the operating console of the galactic starcruiser the spacemen call home. Die you yuppie scum, and I hope you get a boil on your brain stem. So, should I punch this up and make it sound a little stronger???
ROFLMAO :laugh: , Yardley where do you come up with this stuff, its so damn funny!! I'm glad no one has tried get rid of Union Grove Dragway, first large housing development I see near it, I'm getting a flamethrower!! Patrick
Yardley, the English Major in you has clearly risen to the surface! :laugh: I'm trying to decide which catch phrase I like better "blow-meat for the lumben proleteriat" or "entrails strung like porch lights". You are one sick dude. Keep up the good work. :TU:
Send Yardley and Alan to the Meeting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yardley can SPEW expletives at them while Alan unloads a White Castle "GAS" attack....................... MEETING ADJOURNED!!!!!!!!!! :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu: :moonu:
Yardley,that is too funny! Yes,I agree,your English is well suited for these idiots. What gets me is the fact that people for years have heard of OLD BRIDGE TOWNSHIP-RACEWAY PARK and then when comes the time to buy a house in that area,they suddenly have amnesia. What is really absurd is when you take a ride to the track,all the fancy house developments are slowly stating to litter the landscape. And to think years ago,that area was out in the middle of nowhere and you'd think nobody would build houses in that area. Let's fight these idiots that are trying to take away our hobby.
I think most of them know damn well about the track, I think their goal is to buy the land cheap, since its near the track, shut down the track, and collect the big dollars as land value soars. Here's to you Richie Rich and your stupid ideology of greed :moonu: Patrick
You gotta wonder if these narrow-minded beauraraps would be doing the same thing, if E-town was instead an AMTRAK railyard, and somebody built a million dollar house next to that. Ya really think those knuckleheads could close down a railway, that's even noiser, smellier and smoky pollutant?? Maybe they should build a house at the end of runway 9right instead? JH uzzled:
Frank, you are welcomed to copy and paste that into an email and shoot it off yourself, if you want. I'm seriously thinking about being there on Thursday.
