Ed, it is unfortunate that so many BackTalkers are focused on the “people from Trenton” comment in the flap over the Popeye’s expansion. The real issue is one of traffic and safety: The restaurant is seeking zoning exemptions to add a drive-thru window, from which exiting cars will be forced onto Winslow Avenue, a residential street. Those of us who live in the Creston section of Mercerville have legitimate concerns about how all those vehicles, whether they come from Trenton or Princeton, will find their way back to the major arteries of Nottingham Way and Whitehorse-Mercerville Road. Call us parochial for not wanting our neighborhood to turn into a traffic watershed for Route 33, but please can it with the racial implications.

Neighbor

OK, you’re parochial! There, I said it. —Ed. Note