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Originally Posted by ronn
Kevin, thanks for letting us know.
It appears that regulation in our great country is destroying so many of these shows.
it does make you wonder how long the "hobby" will be around..............?
everything is diminishing, except my waistline!  |
Keep in mind I live around 4-5 miles from the site.
It was not regulations.
The residences (which there are hundreds around the site) were not to happy it would take them hours to get anywhere. We are talking trying to drive a mile or less.
Then you have the problem of public safety. If something were to happen the area was completely grid locked. Plus you have a huge crowd of people and a local system that likely would not be able handle the emergency properly (I used to do volunteer rescue here too).
So it was just a matter of risk reduction for Egg Harbor Township. They do not have the extra cash to fund the public safety needed to allow the event to go on which means they also could not afford the insurance premium if anything bad were to happen. Throw in a large number of residences that were not very happy and vocal about it. They have no choice but to cancel the event.
I can not blame them for doing this.
To be honest our area was screwed over by the casinos. A master plan was put in place before the casinos were to be built. This required upgrading the road system before the housing went into place. I believe the road Flemming's is on was one of the roads. Of course, not a dime went into infrastucture improvements but thousands of houses were added. So on a normal day traffic gets messed up in those areas around Flemmings. In fact, only recently have several major intersections that feed into that area have been changed to handle the daily traffic.
Of course, the casinos have lobbied for and received tax abatements and now all of Atlantic county has to pay more to keep Atlantic City alive, yet the casinos are still making tons of money.
So please do not believe this is regulated out for no reason. It was a significant liability for the city that is cash strapped because Atlantic City finances and politics. There is even a link into the current POTUS actions in AC, but I will not go there now.