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Love the Nimby thinking already spewing out.
Cuckoo 1: Somehow ADDING additional road capacity will somehow INCREASE traffic.
Not disagreeing with you on the economic benefits but we must realize that all truck traffic coming from New England and other points north will use the new bridge or tunnel to transport cargo westbound to Nassau, Queens and Brooklyn instead of driving I-95 in CT westward through Stamford/Norwalk and the New England Thruway.
That will have a tremendous impact on the LIE, the modified "Sunken Meadow no longer Parkway", etc.
Lots more traffic.
People on LI could actually apply for jobs in CT. I worked for a short while in Westport, and the commute was hell.
Nimbys, don't worry. The status quo is safe. It will never be built.
Notice when you search online for decently paying jobs many of them come up in Norwalk, Stamford and Westport with nary a mention of LI? This would make those jobs almost commutable. Unfortunately, not gonna happen.
“Today, we are taking another step to advance an ambitious project that would reduce traffic on the impossibly congested Long Island Expressway, improve connectivity, and help ensure the region’s future economic competitiveness,” Cuomo said in a statement.
How is introducing truck and vehicular traffic to NYC coming from New England, looking to avoid 91 and the Bronx, going to help the 'impossibly congested Long Island Expressway' AND why is there no mention to upgrading the current infrastructure to handle this?
“I don’t see the need for it...,” said State Sen. Carl Marcellino (R-Syosset), a member of the powerful Senate transportation committee.
“This would be a massive undertaking that would be expensive and disruptive. No one wants it on either side of Long Island Sound,” he said, referring to Oyster Bay and Westchester.
Given the slow creep one faces to get over the Throgs Neck Bridge, I can not begin to think about being stuck in an approximately 18 mile tunnel inching my way out.
How has the Chesapeake Bay Bridge been doing? The couple times I've been on it, there was zero traffic and it serves the same kind of purpose. Also being near a big city.
Dont think for a minute that *if* this were to happen it would free.
$15 toll.
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