Families of Woodbridge Developmental Center residents have installed a billboard outside of Trenton.
The families continue to ask Gov. Chris Christie to visit the Woodbridge facility on Rahway Avenue and the North Jersey Developmental Center, Totowa, and meet their loved ones. Both facilities are slated to be closed over the next five years.
The families argue that the medical needs of the developmental center residents and the desires of their family members were not taken into consideration by the state task force that recommended the closure of two developmental centers in a 2012 report.
They also argue that, by closing the two centers in the northern part of New Jersey and moving residents who require these services to the southern part of the state, the residents will be moved farther from their families and support networks.
The billboard can be seen by eastbound motorists on I-195 between exits 3 and 5.