A new report on traffic is the latest salvo from opponents to a proposed Brooklyn Walmart.

Building a Walmart in East New York would flood the area with traffic, opponents say in a new report.

The report predicted that if the planned Gateway II shopping center included a Walmart, it would draw 10,692 more cars every weekday than the mall’s developers predicted in their environmental study. That’s a 32% jump in traffic, they said.

“The impact is astonishing,” said traffic engineer Brian Ketcham, who conducted the study sponsored by the group Walmart Free NYC.

“It’s the most successful big box in the world and they attract a lot of shoppers.”

All the new vehicles would slow traffic by 29% on the already congested Shore Parkway, the study found.

Developer Related Companies – which hasn’t yet reached a deal to bring Walmart to the site – scoffed at the report.

Related attorney Jesse Masyr said that Ketcham produced a study predicting a traffic mess that never happened when Ikea built a store in Red Hook.

“He just makes hysterical claims,” Masyr said. “He is so off the mark.”

Masyr said Related’s study was conservative and considered the possibility a big discount store would move in, though it didn’t specifically look at Walmart.

But opponents have said the developer could face a lawsuit because environmental studies didn’t consider Walmart when the Gateway II project was approved.

“A Walmart here would kill jobs and small businesses, and drastically increase traffic,” said Walmart Free NYC spokeswoman Stephanie Yazgi.

As the two sides prepared to face off at a City Council hearing tomorrow, the big-box giant released sales figures showing New Yorkers are spending more at Walmart – shelling out almost $200 million in 2010 at suburban locations.

The $195,870,142 city residents spent at about a dozen stores is a 20% jump from the last 12-month period Walmart measured. From May 2009 through April 2010, the figure was $165 million.

“While we continue to meet with elected officials and community stakeholders … to listen and better understand local concerns, we also are making it clear that the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers want Walmart,” said spokesman Steve Restivo.

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