Carver Looking for Slot Machine Traffic Solution

Thomas D. Carver, the Executive Director of the Casino Reinvestment development Authority (CRDA), is looking for ways to increase traffic to the slot machines, while looking for ways to decrease traffic problems. Atlantic City, NJ is the place on the East Coast to play the slot machines, but as more and more people are discovering, it is also the place to sit in traffic for hours to play one of those slot machines.

Carver knows that if they don’t correct the traffic problem they will lose slot machine revenue as people will go to other states to play the machines. They no longer have to wait in line to play them in NJ, they can go to PA, NY, Delaware, etc. – slot machines are all around them now. There have been great suggestions on how to get the slot machine players here – a light rail system, more busses, a train, Garden State Parkway interchanges to bring traffic down less used roads, parking and shuttles, cable cars that would run overhead, etc. – the list goes on and on. The problem is that nothing is being done about it.

The NJ Department of Transportation is working with other transportation agencies within the state to try and get the slot machine players to their destination a little quicker, as they need a solution that will last them the next 25 years or more. Some of the slot machine casinos are not concerned, they say that parking is more trouble than driving, but many others know that they will begin losing slot machine revenue to surrounding states the worse the traffic gets. Weekends and holidays over the summer are the worst for you have the traffic coming for the slot machines, and the traffic coming for the beaches, all down the same roads. NJ needs to come up with a solution fast, for as far as some people are concerned, a slot machine in AC is just the same as a slot machine in Philly.

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