SWING SET... looked up the Bellmawr 2012 budget last night, had a line item of $47,000 for "Playground Rehabilitation" (going from memory) There were no breakdowns of what that represented.

Swing Set... I honestly have no clue what the total cost is of the Bellmawr project. I've noticed the construction over the late winter, and one day last week noticed that kids playing so I snapped a few pics. The information on the grant was me simply googling. If you have other info, please send. Funny you mention Fort Nassau. I've read comments about that playground. I believe some want to take it down? I'd need to go look closer. But I drove by it today on my way home from work (on my way to park someone else mentioned), and I did take a slightly deeper look at the ol' Fort. My first thought was, how is it that these impressive timber playground projects can go from such a huge community pride project, to then people wanting to tear down? First community shouts "Let's band together and build a playground!". Then its "Let's band together to tear it down!" I think it was Bill Cleary himself who was calling for it to be torn down. I'm not saying he's wrong, just wondering how something so positive could become a negative. http://www.gloucestercitynews.net/clearysnotebook/2011/12/fort-nassau-should-be-demolished-the-playground-has-too-many-safety-issues.html

We are at the start of a nice stretch of warm weather, so I will definitely stop over and check it out in the next few days and see where the posting goes. If you have any info on how the playground came about (grant, town budget), please let me know. I'll do some googling, which is where I get 95% of my info. And thanks for the suggestion! Mark markmatt@comcast.net

Update: Went by the park on 4/22 and the swings were up.

Paul, The project is known as "Direct Connection" The main NJDOT website for the project is here: http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt295/ Selected alternative page http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt295/ipa.shtm Second page with a few other simulations: http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt295/fd.shtm The page above has a link to a PDF indicating roads, and the noise walls. Its a large 5mb PDF, so maybe do "Save as" http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt295/pdf/finalnoisewallsmaps.pdf This is another PDF map, highlighting the construction contracts, which also represents when things would be developed: http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt295/contracts.shtm So.. I hadn't realized there were 2 pages of simulations. There are a few images in the links above that I had not seen before. The ones showing the 3-d view as the elevated road passes by the cemetery next to the mausoleums looks crazy... that's a huge wall separating the town. It really too late to change anything, but.. maybe worthy of post on its own

Adding to the food review mix... "Meandering Mark" has a food review or two coming up, but from a different angle.