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09-21-2007, 08:18 AM
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Location: North Shore, Long Island, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by clamboy
What do you think?
I think its time has come.
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Sure! You paying? 
Do you have any idea of the cost for those projects? Look at those number from 30+ years ago! |
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09-21-2007, 11:02 AM
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...tryin to reason with hurricane season...
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sound Beach
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The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is about 20 miles long (similar distance) and the toll is $12 for a car. Even if the toll were $20 each way...a round trip is less than one way on the ($46 for car and driver I think). Might work. It would open up amazing amounts of tourism $$ from New England (and shorten my trip to Maine for the Navy Reserves considerably!!)
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09-21-2007, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by TheImportersWife
Sure! You paying?
Do you have any idea of the cost for those projects? Look at those number from 30+ years ago! |
I'm surprised you cant see the opprortunity Iwife.
They clearly underestimated what the market would bear in the 70s
At almost $100 R/T for the Cross Sound Ferry...imagine the toll revenue even at a 1/4 of that.
Welcome to The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company Website
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09-21-2007, 03:00 PM
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I would venture to guess that the impact on the ecology of Long Island Sound would also be a major factor affecting whether a bridge would ever be built across it.
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09-21-2007, 03:14 PM
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A bridge or several Bridges to New England would be a GOOD thing for Long Island. Think of the possibilities. Which means it will never be done.
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09-21-2007, 03:37 PM
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If there was a perfect place it would be crowded
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North of the Cow Pasture and South of the Wind Turbines
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I remember when they wanted to build the mythical bridge from East Marion because it was 8 miles which I think is the shortest distance - Out of curiosity what good would it really do? Jam a few towns with tourists from New England why would they want to come to Long Island anyway - to see the ocean? It still would be quicker for those folks to go to First beach in Newport.
I see no good in that bridge and the corruption and everything else that would surround it would be epic. If it ever actually got built. The LI Sound is not like building over a river.... And that Ferry in Orient ruined the town. Perhaps from Nassau to bypass NYC and its already a dump so no harm; maybe from Sands Point? Or Riverhead to go skiing...
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09-21-2007, 04:02 PM
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clammy..we make a good team
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09-21-2007, 04:15 PM
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Location: Bronx, New York
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Just after Rockefeller kicked Robert Moses off his high horse, I believe there was a study that determined that a causeway from LI to CT did make sense (one of the very few Moses ideas that did). But Rockefeller didn't want to **** off his Republican votes in both the areas of LI and CT (NYS re-election plus wanna be Prez!).
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09-21-2007, 08:21 PM
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Location: Wantagh NY
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The Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway was supposed to go over to Connecticut. I pass the "end" of the expressway every day and I always think to myself, it should have been completed...
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