Dear Editor: I’ve often heard that visualization is an important and helpful way to understand just how something was going to turn out. I thought that in the interest of public concern it might be a good exercise to try and understand the situation involving some new development in our city. For space reasons we can’t talk about all the new development that is encircling our city. (We’ll leave that for another discussion, maybe an international debate with the Chinese as to Who’s Great Wall brings in more revenue. I think it’s theirs, but the mayor and the city administrator insist that this will change in the future.) No, for the purposes of this exercise, we need only to focus on three spots: 1600 Park, the garage at 916 Garden (you know the one with the hump on it!) and just for symmetry’s sake we’ll add 1500 Hudson. Okay – ready? Close your eyes and relax. Imagine a warm summer’s evening, say a Friday night at about 9:30 p.m. There is a long line of cars on both northern access points to Hoboken trying to get in (sort of how it is now). Imagine that there are also the cars of 1600 Park’s 300 or so units added to the mix. (You have to figure at least one car per unit don’t you?) So 300 more cars are coming in. So, let’s just guess that a few of these cars are turning right onto Garden Street with the thought, just the thought, that they might be able to park at the garage at 916, (you know the building; the one that needs the variance for the hump on the roof). So what if the thought to park there gets into the heads of say, 20 people. (Remember, it’s a warm Friday evening!) Let’s just say that these 20 cars show up at around the same time. Twenty cars times 2 minutes a car (2 minutes, that is the time it is supposed to take according to the manual, right?) that’s 40 minutes to get to the last car. Of course, it isn’t even remotely possible that the computer will malfunction; that never happens, or that during that 40 minutes even more cars will arrive. There is a line brewing there. I’m certain that the good people of Garden treet sitting out on their steps on a fine warm summer evening will love the sights, sounds and – Oh yes, the smell of that night. Thankfully there won’t be any honking horns. That has been seen too already, thank you very much. Okay, to be fair, not all the cars will be turning down Garden Street. Most will probably go straight to turn onto Washington Street, or even (dare I say it!) Hudson Street. Not only for the evening. (The rules preclude me from mentioning the cars from the Shipyard Apartments, so don’t try to imagine all those!). It’s all a lot of cars. All right now, open your eyes. There, that feels good now doesn’t it? Visualization really works. Thank God there is no light rail along the East Side. That would have been a traffic nightmare. Joseph A. Corrado