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Old 05-30-2018, 06:15 PM   #1411
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
From Trenton to Sparta.
That is more rural parts of NJ. Plenty of open land for drainage. Most homes built on 2+ acre lots. And not much flat land that so easily floods. Been up and down those roads (ie Routed 206?) for many decades in all kinds of weather. It must have been an unusually heavy rain.

One factor is apparent. After eight years of Gov Christie, plenty of maintenance and new construction was eliminated or suspended in the name of cost controls. Those so desperately needed tunnels into NYC's Penn Station were only one obvious example.
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