Roundabout in Lincroft will only worsen situation I am a civil engineer with some traffic background, and I find abhorrent what the Lincroft Village Green Association is doing regarding the recent traffic fatalities on Route 520 (“Residents propose ideas to ease Rt. 520 traffic,” Nov. 29). They are politicizing the tragedy of that day for their own purposes. As most who have traveled down Newman Springs Road in the area know, it is not a well-functioning stretch of roadway, but every incident that happens there is not the result of bad design, or could be corrected by improvements or the lowering of a speed limit. This crash was simply a sad accident of one driver losing control of his vehicle on a straight stretch of highway. Sometimes a crash is simply the result of driver error, vehicle defect, or something else totally unavoidable. The association wants to change the nature of Newman Springs Road and Swimming River Road, two arterial roads, into local roads. People need these roads to get to work and to see their families. The Lincroft Village Green Association also want to ship everyone who lives north of Lincroft’s garbage, north away from the county landfill, and make the trash and trucks someone else’s problem. And even worse, they want to turn the intersection of Newman Springs at Brookdale Community College into a roundabout. Roundabouts are good and all, but are not meant to handle the volume of traffic that flows through that area on a daily basis. The only way to alleviate the delays at that location is to extend a second lane from Swimming River/Middletown-Lincroft Road to this intersection. A roundabout will only make things worse. Please, Lincroft Village Green, think about the truck noise you will be sending past other people’s front doors. Think about the lines of idle cars on your roadway that will result from your recommendations. And most importantly, think about the other residents of the county and township that will suffer. David Dlugosz Eatontown