Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 60

building the elevated roadway that carries the LIE from the tunnel toll plaza to Greenpoint Avenue in Queens For two weeks starting Monday two westbound lanes will dose from 10 am to 3 pm on weekdays And after that one lane will close down in each direction until the project is completed Already limo drivers are comparing notea on the best routes to take out of the city use my said one man who makes his living rescuing Manhattanites and shuttling them to their East End summer homes is the guaranteed best route: Take the 59th Street Bridge get ofT at Queens Boulevard and take it to the LIE service road all the way to the Grand Central out to Hicksville If the expressway is still dogged I take the Northern State wicked I know Once across the Queens border construction across Long Island should be no worse than last summer got a couple of spots that I know are going to be bad" said Frank Merklin Commissioner of Public Works Turnpike we have major work going on there in the southwest part of the county very heavily traveled at rush hour like trying to put 10 pounds in a five-pound But azide from that and a few other projects that Bottlenecks GoFromBad To Worse TRAFFIC from Page 5 during the next five years The work is part of a Rebuild New York effort designed to improve the metropolitan deteriorating infrastructure of roads and river crossings have more work starting this year than we ever have before at least in terms of dollar Hirschberg said The first and perhaps most dramatic sign of summer construction was the closure of two east-bound lanes to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel on May 13 The state has begun a five-year project there re will affect traffic intermittently the summer be really horrible he said In Suffolk the finenriel problems mean fewer traffic projects will be undertaken this summer than in years past And even those be catastrophic said Gen- singer of the state DOT Shore routes are' monitored by the INFORM system and other than construction of the Meadowbrook-Northem interchange in Nassau we foresee any major diffi- Gensinger said night ringing of lanes on the expressway are scheduled to begin at midnight on Fridays instead of the usual 9 pm to allow more time for eastbound vacationers and travelers He said no weekend daytime or holiday lane dosings have been scheduled so far One county project completed last year could serve to do the unthinkable actually ease traffic congestion put in new detection equipment that hope- fully will expedite traffic said Roger Meeker chief engineer of Department of Public Works explaining a new system for synchronizing traffic lights on County Road 39 at the end of Sunrise Highway in Southampton That may be the case but East Hampton Supervisor Tony Bullock said that a few miles east mi the same county road one of the main drags through the East End and always a crowded route lies an area he described as the worst traffic in the East End A new shopping mall is going up there he said complete with a new traffic lane and traffic signal rubbernecking there is serious Everyone will be looking to see what the new stores the town supervisor said (To save rubbemeckers trouble Bullock notes for the record: The new stores will be a Gap a King Kullen a yogurt store and a record store) Traffic congestion is as much a part of the East End as the ocean Referring to the movie Bullock says summer commuters rely on what he calls the Candy approach Planes Trains and groans but they get he said would suggest that if anyone can come up with a fast way to come out here in the summer they will be richer than someone who comes up with a cure for Drivers Redefine Tunnel Vision DRIVERS from Page 4 Moving wnmiuaav-fionn viinv most of the worfc wfll be off the Norway UEfeAKMlId oid RoosevdtHekl YWI affect local Commuters section project involves extensive and vridaningofOid I Country Hoad tots Road and Gten Cove RoadAbo includes fbfi ing bridge over Moodowfarook State Partway jjp reconstruction of on and off ramps to the Ocean Ocean Annua in Broofchsiyeriau UE Exits to 6Q between Route 454 and PaichcjueHRxookR 3 Detours toservice road Now working eastbound feisidewg change at some point during the summer Jfe to westbound sdeWatch I work on weekends after midni? 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Drive and Smith Sheet Central isfip Motor Parkway Commadfe between Wk mack Heart and Deer Paik Avenue-Reeuri and rebutieftrig Intersection with Northern State New Highway ki BabytortRei ftweenSunriee Highway and SR 109 very closely and may take the train more if the traffic commute gets much worse during the latest round of construction Ron Calise a Manhasset resident who drives every day to his job as a managing director of corporate finance for Salomon Brothers in Manhattan said he rode the train for eight years but switched over to driving three years ago because he found New subway system unbearable The traffic conditions were enough to spur one Long Islander togive up his business altogether Last month Chris Ferensdk said goodbye to the duly commute after putting up with bent tire rims tailgating traffic tie-ups and the mental stress for seven years just sold my business because I stand it said Ferensdk of Lindenhurst who with his wife Linda drove into Manhattan through the tunnel every day to operate an ice cream distributorship They made their last regular commute April 5 wait to get in the car and drive home for the last Ferensdk said And when Ferensdk heard about the latest bottleneck at the Midtown Tunnel it just confirmed his decision: heard that on the radio the other day and I said God not going in to the Beach Less exotic but arguably just as reliable is the Long Island Rail Road which is adding extra trains for the Memorial Day weekend and is also starting its summer weekend service to Jones Beach Long Beach and Fire Is- land with special package rates that include round-trip train and bus or ferry tickets toi Si i Cj c's fr East Hampton times more land there in fly he said is IV is the flight in about Airport Alternative Ways of Getting OPTIONS from Page 4 NEWSOAY FRIDAY MAY 25 1B80 a dent of Metro Marine said the highspeed ferry ferry in the United die claimed) leaves East 34th Street at 8:30 pm Fridays starting today An hour and 50 minutes later it docks at Restaurant at Ocean Bay Park The cost is $25 one way and $40 round trip senior attendant at the Town Airport said that five airplanes and helicopters summer than in the off-season And the fastest way to by private jet The Gulfstar largest jet the airport can accommodate can make the from LaGuardia Alan Brockman president of the civic association If seaplanes are out ferries are in and definitely cheaper Metro Marine Express is offering what it bills as the first direct Manhat-tan-to-Fire Island ferry in the history of the world Cicely Nichols vice presi The fastest way to get to the is stilj by sTora 8 Bumaoia 15.