Suffolk County officials will spend more than $32 million to fix ailing bridges and roadways in 2012, County Executive Steve Bellone announced on Friday.
The move, lauded by the Long Island Contractors Association, is expected to create 300 jobs related to construction work on roughly 16 scheduled projects that include fixing bridges, installing conservation systems at county facilities and resurfacing some of the county's cracked and worn roadways.
More specifically the plans include repairing and resurfacing County Road 111/Daniel Roe Highway from Sunrise Highway to the Long Island Expressway; County Road 105/Cross River Drive from Route 24 to Route 25; County Road 46/William Floyd Parkway from Moriches Middle Island Road to Route 25A; County Road 97/Nicolls Road from Furrows Road to Route 27' and County Road 19/Waverly Ave/Patchogue Holbrook Road from Route 27 to Broadway.
As for bridges the plan would complete rehabilitate the Landing Avenue Bridge, Shore Drive Embankment, Brown’s Creek Bridge and Quantuck Creek Bridge and Bulkhead.
Meanwhile emergency bridge repairs would take place at overpasses at Nicolls Road and County Road 16, County Road 99 and Waverly Ave, Sills Road and the Long Island Rail Road, and County Road 111 and East Moriches Road.
Under the $32 million plan the county will also replace traffic lights at 46 intersections, and launch a slate of energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects at county facilities, which includes changing to energy-efficient lighting and installing solar systems and green heating and cooling systems.
Red Light Cameras to Double
Suffolk plans to install 50 more red light cameras at major intersections, a move that'll double the amount of these often criticized monitoring systems to 100 in the county.
Red light cameras snap photos of drivers who run red lights at intersections, using the license plate information to send traffic violations to the drivers' homes.
However, locals have complained that the varying timing of yellow lights across the county makes this type of monitoring unfair.
According to the Long Island Press, the extra red light cameras could add $6 million in revenue annually to the county's books.
Crash Course
The Suffolk County Police plans to offer a nearly three-hour course for teens on avoiding an automobile crash, demonstrating tactics such as breaking, cornering and accelerating to avoid a dangerous wreck.
The course runs daily from July 9 to 13.
Call 631-852-6109 for more information.
HIRE was passed in October 2011. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ147/pdf/PLAW-111publ147.pdf It's June 2012. Hmmmm where did this money go to, when Suffolk County Government recieved it's "share" for "infrastructure" ? http://timbishop.house.gov/latest-news/bishop-votes-to-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs-this-year/ Did Suffolk County even get it's share, way back then or Ever ? Ask the Pols in the picture above. POOF it just probably "disappeared" too !
Somebody has an obvious obsession about Congressman Bishop. But, I'm sure that this same poster criticizes other Members of Congress for bringing funding back to their own districts; or does he? I wonder if he is even a constituent of the First District; if not, then he should be also posting about what Congressman King, and Congressman Israel, and Congresswoman McCarthy, each do in terms of bringing back funding to their respective districts.
Greece and Spain June 2012. When it happens here...sooner than you will ever be aware of it, and probably confounding Your Understanding of "economics", please tell us how it was "pushing" your wheel barrow of Money, down the road to get your newspaper or pay for your gas.
Please show us the results of all of this Obama "Free" money, poured into this district ?
12:26 am on Monday, June 11, 2012 There is no valid comparison to either 2012 Greece or Spain (or Ireland, or Portugal, or Italy, for that matter), and the global bond market -- which does a pretty fair job of pricing risk, my friend -- has made that abundantly clear." Dad of Three's "economics teacher" is "Turbo Tax" Timothy Geithner. You know him, as the Secretary of the Treasury, though you don't hear from him much these days, have you ? You see, he has been hiding in some "rabbit hole" for years now, and he ain't coming out until after November 8, when it's all over !
Your taking Money out of the pockets of all the nice people in the picture above, and their "benefactors"; that's what's wrong ?
It is clear that you don't like the current US President, and that is also fine. But you are distorting so many things that I also question how much you actually understand, and how much is simply a regurgitation of Talk Radio from the Radical Right. You are also using mockery, and posturing unproven assertions about other posters, so I don't even consider you a Republican, but a member of the Radical Right of the Republican Party who uses any distorted associations you can throw at the wall, in order to deflect the more rational comments of others. That's a shame, because you do seem to have some noble aspirations. Your approach is not helpful to problem solving for the American Republic.
Oh, with your silence on what I have posted, you agree then, Thanks ! American Patriot, huh ?
You are guilty, in his mindset, until proven innocent. Go ahead, waste your time dealing with his smokescreens, all spewing forth so that he does not have to deal with the substance of the remarks of others. How precious!
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Spain, and Greece, and three or four other European countries are in neck-deep cow manure. You simply need to pay attention to good international journalistic sources, and have a basic understanding of international economics. But, you are doing some wild projections that are no more valid than my saying that because we also use English Law, and because we also speak English, and because we also trade with countries in the EU, and because we share many economic similarities with the UK, that our economic future is very much tied to that of the UK. First, get out of the recession which began with 2007's collapses in the sub-prime mortgage market and was hammered home with the subsequent collapse of the US banking system in 2008. Second, take temporary measures to protect the vast number of Americans who are still suffering from the great recession. Third, when we are stabilized, go back to the lessons of the Clinton Administration and hold down spending while increasing revenues (yes, that means boost taxes to those levels), as recommended by both Simpson-Boles and Domenici-Rivlin, and use increased cash flow from that to pay down the accumulated debt, as we were doing under Clinton. So, you see, we really do agree on some things, just not on making wild assertions.
However, you cannot compare one major economy to another, each of which has a political and economic structure which is often unique or at least sufficiently different as to make simple projections both inappropriate and nothing more than a convenient rhetorical flogging point for one's own political purposes. Frankly, I don't expect the EU to survive intact, and I expect that some of the very unhealthy parts will be hived off to return to their historical national currencies, while the more stable healthier parts will tighten their ties with fiscal and political reforms that will turn the EU into more of a "United States of Europe", and less of a hodgepodge of wildly varying approaches to economic problem-solving. I also expect the UK to be happy they never agreed to the conditions of the Mastricht Treaty, and that the Queen's face will continue to be seen on the British Pound.
All we hear is "We have to raise your Taxes for This or That", and "We Don't Have The Money" ! What do they do with the over One Billion Dollars they got in 2009 ? This new generation of Pols didn't learn anything from their thieving and scheming Ancestors: Just provide the basic services to Tax Payers, Without Whining, and you can Steal as much as you want to "on the side" ! No, all they say, is "We Don't Have The Money", and "We are going to raise your Taxes, or enact "user fees" ! It's approaching a Tipping Point : "Cut Back" on Big Wasteful Spending ! Tax payers don't have Any money to give you !
I agree with you. We are behind China, in "infrastructure spending". Now all we have to look forward to is The Regime Leader's re-election, so he can approve the use of Slave Labor, like China does, to boost their Fake economy. I think you, Mary Beth, should volunteer to organize this Progressive effort. Perhaps you should organize these slave labor camps, by volunteering to be the First Slave Laborer ? Or perhaps you can choose who goes to the slave labor camps ?
Mr.Caplan is right; some posters from the radical right have tried to hijack this thread, and they seem to content to have circular arguments about their philosophy and politics, rather than focus upon the realities of the thread. Pity.
I simply do not hold to your prediction of US economic catastrophe based upon some individual European countries current or projected catastrophes. Furthermore, perhaps unlike you, I feel that the global bond market is a much better evaluator of risk than either you, or I, and factors that into bond prices. And, if you contend that you are better than the entire bond market, then you are missing a golden career opportunity. The US, and the UK, and Japan, and China, are all affected by the banking and economic and political crisis in some European countries, but that does not become a straight line predictor for the other countries of the world. As to Clinton/Obama, my evaluation is that Obama wanted to behave, not exactly but largely, as did Clinton, but became frustrated by the "throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater" crowd in Congress. I think that Jeb Bush has correctly identified the dangers created by extremist members of the GOP, and can only hope that the American people -- to the extent that redistricting by States has not created too many "safe" seats for incumbents -- will vote down radical Members of Congress, and restore sanity to the political process.
Fixes to close LIE eastbound lanes at Exit 44S Originally published: June 12, 2012 8:19 PM Updated: June 12, 2012 9:49 PM By SARAH CRICHTON sarah.crichton@newsday.com http://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/traffic/fixes-to-close-lie-eastbound-lanes-at-exit-44s-1.3778477
How does it help the dialogue?