Trench Warfare ; State's Roads and Your Vehicle Suffer for Progress' Sake
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › August 03, 2006
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You probably didn't know about the bumpy new Palisades Park roller coaster ride. I didn't either until a reader named Cosmo took me there last week for a merry trip in his tow truck.
It's a seven-tenths-of-a-mile stretch of Route 5, a curving, steeply graded piece of a state highway that the state Department of Transportation has all but forgotten.See the full content of this document
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Trench Warfare ; State's Roads and Your Vehicle Suffer for Progress' Sake
"Good thing you're wearing a seat belt!" Cosmo shouted while his truck bounced over ruts, bumps, potholes and gravel in a harrowing descent that jammed my knees into the dashboard and slammed my scalp onto the ceiling on our way to the East Homestead Avenue entrance to westbound Route 46.
As readers like Cosmo keep telling me, too many of Bergen Cou...See the full content of this document
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