Opponents of the proposed Belmont Park development on Sunday called for the environmental impact study to include measures of traffic during the Belmont Stakes race on Saturday.
“That would really give them a sense of what it would be like to have events 200 times a year,” community organizer Tammie Williams, 36, of Elmont, said. Williams said the study should look at the annual race as an example of how year-round events would impact traffic, parking and Long Island Rail Road ridership in the surrounding community.
“If we’re expecting crowds and crowds of people on our local streets, the best time to study that is on Saturdays,” she said.