Judge it!
Build it, and they will come. This tunnel idea will bring MORE traffic, congestion, and problems to Long Island. We already have several bridges, a tunnel, and two commercial ferries off the Island, if you dont like it, you shouldn't live be living on an island. If youre worried about some "disaster" causing an entire evacuation of the island, you are truly a moron as there are already too many people on the Island for that to happen. You'd need hundreds of bridges and tunnels to facilitate that. Get a boat if youre that paranoid.
Good thing this tunnel will never happen anyway, it's just some greedy developer's bad idea.
Rye, NY
Developer uses hearing to push Syosset-Westchester tunnel project
State and local officials appear to be open-minded about a private developer's idea to build a $10 billion tunnel under the Long Island Sound from Syosset to Westchester, the developer said at a public hearing ...
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It would be the smartest idea as of yet. I don't think the people that are against it ever drove west of Long Island. Who ever designed our roadways many years ago didn't think much of the amount of trafic and what it takes to get off the island. Personally it took me 2 years to figure a way to get off the island with minimal trafic. I personally would love the tunnel to be built I just wish it was done 50 years ago. The way the roads are if we ever needed to get off the island it would not happen with today's roadways. I all my years this is the onlt place where trafic is rediuculous and that is because of the designers. There are 6 lanes at one point going into 2 lanes on the Cross Brons Expressway. So who ever is against this please leave the Island we don't want you. To be perfectly honest it is the smartest Idea I have heared as of yet to reduce trafic. I know I would use it reguardless what it cost it would be worth it.
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Well No way you obviously don't know what you are talking about if you did you would see this is the way to reduce trafic because the tunnels and bridges you are talking about are so bad it is rediculous. I will add one thing the trucks should not be allowed to use this road way or tunnel otherwise it would be a disaster those truck drivers are dangerouse and shouldn't be allowed on our roads only at night.
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It is such a hassle getting off the island unless you leave at the crack of dawn or midday. The ferries are too far East if you live in the middle of the island, and it doesn't save any time, just driving (not to mention the cost). I remember there was talk years ago of extending the S.O.B. and making a bridge to CT or Westchester. That might have been easier and less expensive than tunneling 16 miles underground. We'll need more info before we knock the idea.
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LET'S DO IT!!!!!!
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Lets leave this island alone already. How do the people in RYE feel about it? How about the houses that are standing over the land they need to dig through. I don't think Howard would appreciate that part. The whole Syosset community (and those surrounding it) will be devastated with trafic that we don't need.
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The US Department of Transportation has just released a report on the future of transportation.
http://www.transportationfortomorrow.org/ Guess what? This tunnel is not in the report. Maybe re-invent this as a rail tunnel. Oh, did I forget to mention the monoline insurance companies that guarantee municipal bonds (and have increased recent credit anxiety) are about to be bailed out? |
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The only opposition is from those few wealthy people living in those exclusive neighborhoods near the roads involved. They don't want the traffic, but are happy to use roads that go through the neighborhoods of others. The public good demands that such parochial views be ignored.
We need our own way off the Island without traipsing through Queens and their toll bridges/tunnels.
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What again???? Didn't they paln something like this years ago, except that I believe it was a bridge. The plans went under because they couldn't build an expressway through Syosset and Oyster Bay. Grow up. There is no way to do this unless you distroy what the area is.
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I already see it starting. The usual parade of prejudiced, jealous, ill-informed, bigoted and ignorant readers will start to rant and rave about wealthy, politically connected people who will oppose the tunnel. If people would stop to think for a moment, there are plenty of comfortable but not wealthy people who live near the proposed tunnel. Just because someone is poor, broke and disgusted it does not give them license to rant against the wealthy. Get off your butt and make something of yourself. This is the land of opportunity and everyone has a chance to succeed. Stop complaining and stop wallowing in your self pity. Do something!
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See, Howard lives in Massapequa. He wouldn't have a tunnel under his house. This idea isn't new. It ia as dumb an idea as the idea of evacuating the Island with even and odd license plates. Remember that idiotic idea? Like that would happen smoothly. If you hate traffic as much as I do, use the train to go into the City. Go back to using 200 car freight trains like they did when I was a kid. Get rid of the trucks.
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NIMBY at its finest in LI. A tunnel is UNDERGROUND. It could run under Levittown for example and no one would know it was there.
The eay to eliminate congestion at the entry/exit points is to eliminate tollbooths which create choke points for the existing bridges, and provide a smooth way to transition many lanes into the two that would run in each direction. |
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The original plan for the S.O.B was to run into a bridge that crossed the Long Island Sound.If I recall correctly,when they got to Jericho Tpke. they ran into major resistance from property owners north of there.The origanal general contractor was Ace Hoeffner from Amityville. Very well planned
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Lets just go BIG!!!If we're gonna dig a north shore tunnel, why not put one off the south shore as well?? It could run from the Sandy Hook area in Jersey to Atlantic Beach. Rt 878 is already in place from the Cold War days. It can handle the traffic. This way, us Islanders won't need NYC roads,so they can't hit us for commuters tax to pass through thier neighborhoods.
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How do you get from 95 to Sandy Hook? Some high-priced real estate in the way... |
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So true! It will bring an enormous amount of more traffic to Long Island. Oh, "the ferries are too far east" WAAHH! Move off the island then jerkoff. Just like when they extended Sunrise Hwy from Eastport out to Southampton to "decrease" traffic, it actually increased traffic ten-fold. Suddenly people all said "hey we can come and go easier to the Hamptons, lets go". Not a chance this tunnel will be built and rightfully so. If you build it, they will come. Couldnt be more true. |
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If you think LI is getting more and more like Queens now, just wait for what a tunnel would bring. Imagine 20 years of disruptive construction followed by an influx of traffic that will make what you see today look like the horse-and-buggie era.
What roads would handle the infux of new traffic? The LIE? Or do you really believe that it would all be an outflow, despite decades of evidence showing that projects like these INCREASE traffic inflow? Entire communities would be completely destroyed, never to return. Remember how Robert Moses destroyed the Bronx with the X-Bronx Expressway? This would be repeating that same mistake all over again. Let the greedy developers go try and fool other people in other communities. Don't fall for this garbage. |
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I just cringe when I think more construction, more noise-- and what about the devastation to the surrounding area? You cannot tell me that houses around and above it will be unscathed-- what about the environment and the reason we love it here in the first place?? This is turning into more concrete and pollution. Why don't we just pave the whole darn thing? I understand about the traffic getting ff the island, but let's thank those whose encouraged the overdevelopment of the island in the first place. Oh, and if there is a disaster, we can't get away far enough fast enough anyway. As another poster said, get a boat- it is an island.
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The state is trying to do that by building the intermodal rail yard, but people are still bitchin' about that. |
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Right on. Studies show that whatever expansion is done to ease traffic eventually causes more traffic. If traffic decreases enough, that would encourage and allow more development (urbanization)which would bring traffic to the capacity of the road. Plain and simple. |
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