Post by dalejrfan on May 11, 2006 22:14:06 GMT -5
Councilman Michael McMahon announced yesterday that he would vote against the NASCAR track proposed for Staten Island, making opposition unanimous among the borough's three City Council members. This just days after foes of the NASCAR track demanded that McMahon publicly state his position on the racetrack, to which he countered that all the facts were not yet in to make a decision. In a statement released last night, McMahon, worried about traffic jams on race weekends, blasted developer International Speedway Corp.'s proposal for an 80,000-seat track on the Island's West Shore. He also said that Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Melinda Katz, chairwoman of the Council's Land Use Committee, have joined the Island delegation in asking the Bloomberg administration to examine other zoning alternatives for the site and possibly buy the property through eminent domain.