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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.
The big city (Baltimore?) has a population in the upper 600,000 range, unlike NYC at over 8 million.
Can the Delmarva peninsula truly be compared to Long Island? The population (in 2000) was estimated to be ~ 680,000. As far as access on/off Delmarva, there are three points: the northern end of the peninsula, the Kent Narrows Bridge + CBB, am the southerly Chesapeake Bay Tunnel.
Even if ALL 680,000 people wanted to leave Delmarva at the same time, they have 3 means of vehicular access be it bridge or tunnel. Even with a Sound Tunnel or bridge, we would be moving a lot more people on any given day.
^ I would argue that vehicular traffic that actually would pay extra to cut through LI to get to Manhattan/CT, if they knew the time would be similar, would not be that great. It would only benefit certain areas and not most in the boroughs. I don't see how it wouldn't alleviate LIE traffic if only the ones who would benefit for the extra cost would be the ones going through (small part of Queens and east Brooklyn really being the only boroughs).
Not to mention, they did say 3 ways off for Nassau/Suffolk also. That concept alone is way overdue.
^ I would argue vehicular traffic, vs. straight population density that actually would pay extra to cut through LI to get to Manhattan/CT if they knew the time would be similar. Even if it didn't alleviate LIE traffic, that's good for us as far as that goes. The shortcut in distance for us is still the benefit.
I believe where the tunnel is ultimately situated would play into the demand. Kings park, and it would make a good bypass for anyone getting on/off LI who does not need to deal with NYC. For those of us in the general vicinity or further east, the tunnel would be a big time and mileage saver. It is 100 miles to drive from my home to Bridgeport. 50 miles to the TNB alone vs 10 miles to Kings Park. If it let out in Bridgeport, the trip from my home to Bridgeport would be under 30 miles. (Rounding the projected distance cited in Newsday.) Gas, TNB toll, the value of my time would make that $25-$27 tunnel toll worthwhile.
Between the industrial park in Hauppauge (the 2nd largest in the US, if memory serves) businesses in Melville, SBU, BNL, Riverhead, there could be a decent amount of vehicles crossing.
I recommend we name it the Grandee Andy Tunnel.
$55 Billion to complete. $3,055,555,556 a mile. If it's on budget.
It might be cheaper to send Grandee Andy to Mars before it's completed.
Stacked $1 dollar bills would create 14.7 separate towers of money reaching the International Space Station.
Let's just fill the LI Sound with dollar bills and drive over it wherever we want. Cheaper than what they propose for the tunnel.
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