Mt. Olive ITC East Calamity
https://jerseydigs.com/hundreds-of-homes-and-apartments-proposed-near-mount-olives-international-trade-center/
I thought the point of the trade zone was jobs, not ridiculous residential developments.
Incompetence on all levels of Mt. Olive and state government.
GetOuttaTownI agree with you. My. Olive is absolutely disgraceful. They will allow building on anything and everything with no thought to the burden on the roads and/or neighboring towns.
Suze That group of apartments at 2000 International Drive will have a lovely view and sweet breeze from the Musconetcong Sewerage Authority located right across the road. There will be no way to mitigate that odor. It is there now just as it had been 40 years ago when I rode my dirt bike all through that area.
However if I was a fortune teller the units will be constructed, tenants will move in then complain about the odor and somehow it will be the Sewerage authority at fault and will need to address the problem LOL.
Greg 
A crazy coincidence that today I was looking through old photographs and came upon this aerial shot of that area right after the Continental Drive exit and such was completed.
That center area will be the apartments. The road traveling to the bottom of the photograph is Continental Drive headed toward Waterloo Road. To the right, the undeveloped land there now houses the Marriott Residence Inn as well as Holiday inn Express I believe it is now.
The other area is out of frame up to the right where the Stanhope cemetery is.
I believe the upper right where you see the Criss-Cross dirt trails is the other area that will be developed.
I worked for Lucent Technologies and BASF which were in the a Trade Zone. I thought they would try to attract new businesses to the area meaning more jobs. What in the hell is Mt. Olive doing? We don’t need more congestion and adding to already over crowded schools.
pampurr1 Yo Greg 40 years ago I rode my dirt bike all thru this area. I bet we know each other.
Bernie I used to run down alongside the railroad tracks and take downed trees for firewood !
steven They were certainly simpler times..
I gather the Monster, Five Fingers as well as the "V" have some sentimental meaning to you too, Bernie!
I recall riding with a bunch of local guys. Fred Hoss (Sp) was a real pro. I just tried to stay upright! LOL. The old railway bed, now Continental Drive, at high speed was always good for a beating. Fun times. Sadly two different bikes of mine were stolen while at two different friends places about a year apart. Crazy ...
As a matter of fact that's how I discovered Waterloo Village -riding down the inclined plane when I was 14. I spent the next 28 years working there.
Never rode there , but in the early 70s my friends and I rode everywhere through the back roads , power lines , farm roads , fields etc. It was like almost having a driver's license at age 13 . Then at 15 I bought a full blown two stroke motocross bike with my money saved up from working on a farm . Fair to say I pissed everyone off in two townships riding to work at 6:30 am while putting ruts in the dirt farm roads rooster tailing raising huge dust clouds which especially pissed off the farmers . Great times of an age long past !
97XBAM Used to ride the railroad tracks here in town also. Remember the murder on the tracks on a Friday evening here in town? It was then that I stopped the riding much around here.
Bought a street bike and would take day trips. I just look at bikes now. Still have great memories of those times.
Those were the days. Actually did some mountain biking this past weekend where about 40 years ago we were riding mini bikes (not this area but in NJ). The area is developed, or mostly developed now; but back then 100% undeveloped.
iJay How can anyone be concerned about a ITC development when we have to watch the mountainside scar on route 46. There should have been a class action suit against mt. olive to put some trees back or change the white siding on the homes to green. There are few mountain visible developments in NJ and another is in Morristown. We have easy access to a train and route 80 to surpass ITC.
Robert J Rowe The railroad rights-of-way and various trails shooting off therefrom on private lands too wet to farm were also a big part of my dirtbike-riding youth down here in southern Warren County as well.
However, the absolute best was the last 5 miles or so of I-78 between Exit 3 and the Delaware River in the mid- to late-80s. NJDOT graded it all out and got as far as compacted road stone by 1985 or so, but I don't think that the bridge into PA opened until 1990 or 1991. We had a good 5 years of ripping up and down that stretch, while NJSP could only flash their lights and tell us to stop as we easily veered off the road, up the embankment through the fields and back onto the RR tracks, leading us miles away before they could do anything. I remember one buddy telling me that a Trooper drew his weapon and pointed it at him to get him to stop... he didn't. At least according to him, he was notorious for being a bullsh artist, so he may have made the whole thing up.
ianimal You really have to stop complaining about how capitalists make their money. It's legal.
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