If you would like to join Mr. Sackstein, we ask for $25.00. You will receive our newsleter, but it is unlikely you will want to read, but even if you did it is unlikely you would learn anything for your mind closed a long time ago. That much is perfectly clear.

Patricia Burkhart
Friends of the Edgewood Preserve
Deer Park, NY

Case in point is that our community group, The Prospect/Albin Traffic Calming Initiative was founded due to the serious lack of oversight by the NYSDOT Region 10 despite millions of taxpayer dollars funding projects that have done nor will do little to address the pressing need for improved multimodal public transportation nor the state of good repair of existing infrastructure.

In fact two well funded projects’s actually supplement the limiting of options for area commuters.

The first, now completed, is the “Commuter Access Project” on Cliff Way in the Village of Sea Cliff. When completed the Village Board sought to make this, local, state and federally funded project a permanent “ONE WAY”, limiting, not only public access, but the intended “commuter access”. In the interim they have succeeded in having this roadway obliterated on all mapping, GPS or otherwise as a residential access only throughfare.

The second project is the Glen Cove Ferry & Boat Basin. Repeatedly this well funded project/study proposes an “Iconic Ferry Terminal” sans ferry operator, based on a reduction in service if not total elimination of the LIRR Oyster Bay Branch.

A minor detail is that a ferry terminal, though long abandoned already exists in Glen Cove.

With that, as coordinator of this neighborhood coilition, the intention is not to pass judgment on organizations such as Vision Long Island. However as well as anyone else our community coilition is duly cognizant of who sits on their board, and the developers that contribute to their efforts and multiple so called “Smart Growth” agendas.

Apparently the case in point was made at the March 7th hearing. However the sad fact is that if it were not for the continued updating by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign our grassroots neighborhood coilition would never have known about this meeting.

More significantly, “The Prospect/Albin Traffic Calming Initiative” is no stranger to representatives at the Region 10 DOT, nor the Nassau County DPW. At the very least we would have appreciated the courtesy of an announcement/invitation to this very important public hearing from these decisionmaking agencies.

But obliviously so it goes in Nassau County and the Region 10 DOT.

With that, once again thank you Tri-State for keeping us in the loop! We greatly appreciate your hard work!

Beat regards,

Pamela Tamaddon
Coordinator, Prospect/Albin Traffic Calming Initiative