He also noted that Atlantic Avenue is one of the main evacuation routes in the frequently flooded coastal resort city.
He said the hospital’s ambulances routinely use Atlantic Avenue to transport critically ill or injured patients to its trauma center, adding the elimination of one lane could deprive the emergency vehicles of a passing lane to get around stopped traffic. “This change in traffic patterns on Atlantic Avenue could have very real public health, safety and general welfare implications,” Giannantonio said in a statement. The six Boardwalk casinos have entrances along Pacific Avenue. He said the casinos have been asking the city for over a year to do such a study, which would try to predict how traffic would be pushed onto other roads in more residential neighborhoods, as well as onto Pacific Avenue, which he said is already overwhelmed by traffic during peak hours.
