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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 25 10:47:19 2011, in response to Re: One Dead In Brentwood Shooting, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Apr 25 09:58:31 2011. Actually, I have mixed feelings about it. If they made Long Island a through route, it wouldn't be the same place it is today. Long Island, for all it's pockets of sprawl also has many untouched extremely pretty spots that would all be sprawl if it was a through route.I know it's a tautology, but Long Island won't be the same place in 30 years no matter what is done. The difference is whether you would prefer it to be Long Island 2041 with a bridge, or Long Island 2041 without one. It won't be Long Island 2011 in 2041. Now IMO Long Island is only going to get better with a bridge. Eastern Suffolk is not going to be any closer to NY with a bridge and is too far away from Boston to be a suburb to it (like in NJ with NY-Philly overlap) and too far away from the smaller New Haven and Hartford to be suburbs to either of them. I prefer the Shoreham-New Haven alignment (or similar) to Orient Point-New London/Westerly. That one probably would completely change the east end irrevocably (mainly the north fork). For one thing they'd have to build a North Fork freeway (LIE extension) while Shoreham is close enough to the existing highway. Finally, by being perpendicular to the main direction of NY-Boston travel, it avoids being a conduit for NY-Boston travel (no one going from New England to NYC or beyond would use it unless the LIE is much less congested than I-95). Finally it would probably have a hefty toll. Something similar to the current PJ-Bridgeport ferry fare with 1 car and driver would be fair. |
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