Generations of motorists in Queens have been tormented by bottlenecks on the Long Island Expressway that have been just as predictable through the years as death and taxes.
Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday, Oct. 20, that the state’s Department of Transportation has begun construction on projects to add auxiliary lanes and improve exit and entrance ramps on the thoroughfare in Queens from the Little Neck Parkway all the way to 48th Street in Maspeth and Sunnyside.
“Investment in our state’s transportation infrastructure is critical for the continued expansion of a thriving economy,” Hochul said. “These much-needed upgrades will ease congestion and enhance safety along one of the most heavily utilized vehicle corridors in New York state.”
Construction has begun on a $19.7 million project that will lengthen three acceleration lanes and three deceleration lanes. Three auxiliary lanes will also be added between 48th Street and the Little Neck Parkway in Douglaston, improving traffic flow and allowing motorists additional space to exit and enter the highway.
“The overall safety on our streets and the modernization of our aging transportation infrastructure go hand-in-hand,” Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said. “This critical project will address both, and Queens is grateful for the state’s sizable investment in the much-needed revamping of the Long Island Expressway. We look forward to ensuring a safer, smoother ride for those who drive.”
The project will not expand the LIE to four lanes in the area nor expand the HOV lanes in Nassau County into Queens, according to a NYS DOT spokesman. Exit and entrance ramps at Kissena Boulevard, Utopia Parkway and Francis Lewis Boulevard will be extended by approximately 370 feet. Other safety enhancements will be installed at those locations.
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All that is is lipstick on a pig. It won't do much.
More money for freeloading motorists. Of course the traffic is all because of “communist” bicycles and pedestrians.
great so people can switch into acceleration lanes to get around other people and "cut" ahead.
What idiot did this study? These spots are not the main problems. The main problems are the LIE merge with the GCP and the Van Wyck, the merge with the Clearview and Cross Island. Eliminate these problems and you've solved half the problem. Otherwise your pissing money into the wind.
Extending the entrance and exit ramps is all well and good and overdue, though it will do little or nothing to help with traffic. Why on earth anyone chooses to drive from Long Island into the city is beyond me, but hey, knock yourselves out.
More money for freeloading motorists. Of course the traffic is all because of “communist” bicycles and pedestrians.
you are the freeloader Agenda 21 activist. you pay nothing for your bike fetish.
crook.
Katelin Penner is not manufacturing outrage on twitter yet?
What It Means In A Nutshell.......MORE TRAFFIC
Making it easier for drivers to go into Manhattan.
I guess she isn't interested in supporting Congestion Pricing.
Good.
What we need is Bike Lanes on the LIE. That way the bikers can cut into driver lanes and pedal the wrong way in them.
Nothing like trying to hit a moving target when motoring. I get many pigeons and squirrels that way. The bikers could be the same type of target but bigger.
There is more to New York than Manhattan. Expecting everyone to use public transit to get around the other four boros is nothing more than urbanish fantasy.
I hope they add more lanes so my husband can drive his BMW to work. Who cares if they have to knock down a few houses, steamroll over a few parks, and pollute the dirty air in Queens more. We need more lanes.
Yeaaah! More pollution for Queens.
Finally a Democrat who does something useful. Nothing we hate more than clean air and clean water. Thats for libturds.
Nothing we love more than traffic and congestion.
MAGA! MAGA! MAGA!
****More money for freeloading motorists.*****
Car envy tricycle boy?
@Congestion Pricing.
An other Dumberg gem.
Funny how these globalists love their mansions, horses and cars.
What???? This makes ZERO SENSE! What REALLY needs to be done is cut through the rich assholes areas to get a highway from Connecticut to long Island! This is LONG OVERDUE! You want to complain about "climate change" but look at all the toxins being let out due to HIGH VOLUME TRAFFIC! And the only way to ease this traffic is by making more bridges. Why should any car or truck have to go through TWO boroughs just to get to long Island from the new England area? It literally makes ZERO SENSE! Wake up the rich assholes that you are trying to protect in long Island who just want to complain about "traffic in THEIR areas" and how it will "inconvenience" them!! Also the cross Bronx expressway needs to be BLOWN UP and started again from scratch! The expressway is TERRIBLE!!!!!! Also, stop allowing so many uber drivers and limit how many cars someone can own if they don't have a driveway to store their vehicles in. All of this would DEFINITELY help us out, but with stupid politicians in office, its more of a "wish list" right now until an actual smart, noncorrupt politician comes into office but that obviously won't happen in my lifetime it seems.
@“ What???? This makes ZERO SENSE! What REALLY ”
I agree. Fill in Long Island sound too. That way my husband can drive his BMW to work faster.
@“ Nothing like trying to hit a moving target when motoring. I ”
You sir, are a true American patriot. I salute you. Nobody has done more to rid the world squirrels than you.
MAGA!
This place is full of commie car drivers who want the government to build everything for them.
What did Ronnie say again?
"Nothing we hate more than clean air and clean water. Thats for libturds.
Nothing we love more than traffic and congestion."
How many are you, we?
You want to complain about "climate change" but look at all the toxins being let out due to HIGH VOLUME TRAFFIC!
Again pollution is not the same as "climate change."
Based on the "climate change" dogma you are a useless eater with large carbon footprint and is not your car, is the air you exhale. So in the name of the environment you need to be taxed on the air you consume, they call it carbon tax.
@We need more lanes.
No, we don't. What you need is a straight jacket.
For Agenda 21 boy here
Biden Peddles Build Back Better Plan: 'We Will Take, Literally, Millions of Automobiles off the Road'
https://twitter.com/i/status/1450945483879354373
Apparently, President Joe Biden’s so-called brilliant Build Back Better plan involves taking millions of cars off of American roads.
The president said as much on Wednesday as he addressed reporters regarding the hotly contested infrastructure bill and Build Back Better agenda.
According to Biden, the plan will spend “sixty-six billion dollars” funding passenger and freight trains.
This, Biden argues, will curb the climate crisis by taking cars off the road.
Biden: “We will take, literally, millions of automobiles off the road. Off the road. Saving tens of millions of barrels of oil, dealing with cleaning up the air.”
@" So in the name of the environment you need to be taxed on the air you consume, they call it carbon tax."
Well right wing blowhards exhale a lot more carbon and should be taxed even more. Especially the fat ones.
@"Funny how these globalists love their mansions, horses and cars."
Another commie spreading hatred for people who made a success of their lives.
Go get a job!
@"you are the freeloader Agenda 21 activist. you pay nothing for your bike fetish.
crook."
Get a life you commie car fetish nitwit.
HOW DARE YOU BURN GASOLINE!!! you have STOLEN my childhood! You must all eat bugs and live in caves to save the KLIMAATET! Of course, John Kerry and Obamlet can continue to jet around the globe and eat steak and lobster!!
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