He said other possible uses of the property, including an automobile dealership or retail store, would have had far more severe traffic impact.

As part of the settlement, the development consortium agreed to measures to reduce the physical size and traffic impacts for the project.

There's no plan for the traffic impact on Kingston.

The difference in traffic impact alone is significant.

But in the 1970's and 80's, the traffic impact became a key concern.

And wherever such a tunnel would terminate, there would be a huge traffic impact.

We are working with Mall management to mitigate traffic impacts from the project for the upcoming holiday season.

"If you put in a hotel with 60 rooms, you can just immediately tell what the traffic impact is going to be."

Ms. Burge said that when a second span opened in 1999, doubling the road capacity, the traffic impact on the town was minimal.

We felt comfortable, after they made the proper agreements" to mitigate the traffic impact."