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“None of the funding for the line is going to come from residents’ property taxes,” he noted. In Mantua, however, residents have expressed concerns each year as the line gets closer about its affordability and the effect on township taxes.Īccording to Hanson, property taxes will not be connected to the project since the cost of the line will be paid through tolls and other resources. While the project’s completion is still uncertain, the DRPA is aiming for a ridership of 16,000 people a day by 2040, a number calculated during earlier studies of the line. “Gloucester County is one of the counties in New Jersey that is experiencing the highest rate of residential growth, and with this line, it gives people the opportunity to live in the area without having a vehicle,” said DRPA Principal Engineer Michael Howard. And with the area’s growing population, it is a particular benefit. The line is promoted as a way for college students to commute to school as well as to work at jobs or internships without the need for a car.
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“This project will connect people to jobs and mentors, to schools and teachers, to doctors and medical facilities, to friends and family, to museums and recreational and cultural activities that people can’t really connect to right now,” he added. “This project, what it is really going to do is effectively extend the Philadelphia-Camden metropolitan region to allow a greater number of people who really aren’t able to participate now to participate,” Hanson explained. It is expected to make stops in Pitman, Sewell, Mantua, Wenonah, Woodbury Heights, Woodbury, Westville, Brooklawn and Gloucester City. The still-unfinished line will travel 18 miles from downtown Camden, through Mantua and to Glassboro, and connect with Rowan University’s campus.