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Location: Prince Georges County, MD (formerly Long Island, NY)
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Originally Posted by dman72
It's exactly the same as every other area cookie cutter commercial area like it in the country. No better, no worse.
I live very close and I enjoy having so many different food shopping options and being in and out in no time.
The Nimby's and environmental lobby destroyed the idea of having 347 become a limited access highway, which is what really should have happened, so you can blame them for having to crawl through the area during peak times.
Agreed! 347 is like many other suburban shopping drags around the country.
The rub is that a lot of people who complain about traffic on 347 were the same people who went up in arms with every expressway proposal. 347 totally should've been retrofitted to be an expressway with service roads like Sunrise Highway. Even when the proposal was revived, this time as a greenway, it still got struck down by environmentalists and NIMBYs. Even a pseudo expressway like Nicholls Road would've been an improvement.
Growth is going to happen regardless, it's how we plan for the growth that matters. Politicians and residents plugged their ears when they were warned about increasing congestion on 347, now they have to live with it.
It is quite annoying that every little empty space seems to have something squeezed into it now. There really is no need for all the stores and such going up everywhere.
It's exactly the same as every other area cookie cutter commercial area like it in the country. No better, no worse.
I live very close and I enjoy having so many different food shopping options and being in and out in no time.
I have to admit to being happy that we now have a Fairway AND that an existing building was retrofitted to accommodate it.
The whole cookie cutter commercial area which doesn't differ much from state to state is anathematic to me and symptomatic of a handful of large enterprises owning the lion's share of businesses within them. Below is a list of 11 stores which are held by 3 companies. I'm sorry to rant. The generic facades, the profits being funneled off LI and out of NYS, the increased congestion...grrrr
Bed Bath Beyond, Buy Buy Baby, Harmon Face Values, Christmas Tree Shops are all owned by the same company.
Marshalls, Home Goods, TJ Maxx, Sierra Trading post are all owned by another company.
DSW, American Eagle, Burlington Coat Factory yet another.
Agreed! 347 is like many other suburban shopping drags around the country.
The rub is that a lot of people who complain about traffic on 347 were the same people who went up in arms with every expressway proposal. 347 totally should've been retrofitted to be an expressway with service roads like Sunrise Highway. Even when the proposal was revived, this time as a greenway, it still got struck down by environmentalists and NIMBYs. Even a pseudo expressway like Nicholls Road would've been an improvement.
Growth is going to happen regardless, it's how we plan for the growth that matters. Politicians and residents plugged their ears when they were warned about increasing congestion on 347, now they have to live with it.
347 should have been a highway as planned decades ago, with the addition of local service roads for shopping areas.
I have to admit to being happy that we now have a Fairway.
Yes indeed! The parking lot at the one in Plainview is kind of a nightmare for sure.
That new building is a Charles Schwab? The word that comes to mind immediately is "why?" LOL
There's also something new going up at the intersection of 454 and Harned Road; used to be a gas station there I think. I keep hoping it's a TD Bank but it looks too small. :-/ It ridiculous that there is no TD Bank between the one on Jericho Tpke in Commack, and the one on 347 at Rte 111. They are the "Starbucks" of banks and yet they somehow missed that entire northwestern Smithtown/northern Hauppague area entirely.
Location: Prince Georges County, MD (formerly Long Island, NY)
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Originally Posted by OhBeeHave
347 should have been a highway as planned decades ago, with the addition of local service roads for shopping areas.
Agreed! I think the original plan did include continuous service roads.
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