LVGA defends its activism regarding Route 520 traffic Recently, a letter from an Eatontown resident (“Roundabout in Lincroft will only worsen situation,” Dec. 13) was published, criticizing the Lincroft Village Green Association’s (LVGA) recommendations and — in reference to the double fatality on Route 520 — accusing the Association of “politicizing the tragedy of that day for their own purposes.” The LVGA is a nonprofit civic organization with no political ties. No one from our group has run for public office nor have we endorsed any candidate who has. Besides working toward a better community in Lincroft, members of the LVGA have voiced traffic and safety concerns of Lincroft and area residents to local, county and state governing bodies for five years, not just since the recent accident on Newman Springs Road. We believe that traffic and road safety are regional issues, not just Lincroft problems. The writer criticized the plans the county has to build a roundabout at the Route 520 entrance to Brookdale Community College as if it were the LVGA’s plans. The roundabout was engineered and designed by the Monmouth County Engineering Department with consideration to the volume of traffic at the intersection. The NJDOT is in the process of building several roundabouts in the state, including a replacement of the Collingswood Circle at routes 33 and 34 with a roundabout. Roundabouts are popular in various countries as a means to move many cars through an intersection at a safe steady speed without delays caused by red lights. Perhaps the writer is confusing roundabouts with outdated traffic circles. The writer thinks the solution to the congestion near Brookdale is to widen the road past the elementary school and ballfields — a solution that will encourage speeding when the traffic is light. Will we then have more tragedies like what happened last November where the road is currently four lanes? Our recommendations to allow trucks on the parkway to exit 117, to expand the connection of Route 18 to the parkway at exit 105, and to build a second ramp for exit 105 on Wayside Road in Tinton Falls would not increase traffic past homes but would decrease the traffic and the truck volume on local roads — not just in Lincroft but elsewhere, such as Eatontown where the letter writer resides. We urge members of the public to contact their local township committees and the Monmouth County Freeholders to voice your support of these recommendations. Anyone who wishes to learn more about the LVGA and its proposals should visit our Web site at www.lincroft.org. Carol Baker Abe Littenberg co-presidents Lincroft Village Green Association