I read with interest your article about Wawa’s fight to expand its Ryders Lane parking lot (Sentinel, Dec. 5). As a local resident, I have seen the commercial building grow along Ryders Lane for more than 20 years. Wawa has been a good place to go to pick up much-needed necessities at all hours, day or night.
However, in all the times I have passed the store, I have never seen more than about a dozen cars in the parking lot. Wawa’s statement that it is losing potential customers because the lot appears full is ludicrous. A business cannot sue the township on the assumption that it has lost potential business because at some point its parking lot appears full. What about that small, new shopping center on the Milltown side next to 7-Eleven that seems to have about 20 spaces for four stores? Just because Wawa may have committed to buying China Moon and now has no use for the land, it’s not our problem.
As a regular Wawa customer, I have to agree with Charles Eisenberger, co-chairman of the Ryders Lane Civic Association — this is just a smoke screen to eventually build another building with gas pumps.
The Planning Board should see this and continue to turn down the proposal.
Steve Entin
East Brunswick