Traffic on Rockaway is currently backed up past the airport coming into town. People have reported waiting over an hour. Save yourself a headache by taking another route into town.
Many locals have been expressing to us their frustration about the constant traffic. We ask that you reach out to local officials and politicians. Something must be done to alleviate this traffic!
Sheya Landa just got off the phone with the Mayors office and deputy staff, as well as Community Board 13. The construction is a NYC project, not Nassau. Updates to follow.
In the interim one can express their frustration about the constant traffic (and construction being done during rush hour) to the following numbers: Community Board 13: 718-464-9700, Nicole Harcia: 212-839-2510, Selvena Brooks-Powers: 718-527-4356, Stacey Pheffer Amato: 718-641-8755, Howard J. Kopel: 516-571-6207, Joseph P. Addabbo: (718) 738-1111, Missy Miller: 516-812-3523, Ari Brown: 516-431-0500.
Traffic on Rockaway is currently backed up past the airport coming into town. People have reported waiting over an hour. Take another route into town… pic.twitter.com/nsusyk9y0J
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Unfortunately, as Robert Moses discovered late in his highway-building career, there is no quick answer for traffic. The easy answer is “build more roads” but as Moses learned, opening more roads just generates more traffic. The Long Island Expressway is the perfect example. It was obsolete as a highway the day it opened.
The biggest problem here is that there are just too many cars and trucks for this part of Long Island. The roads here were laid out a century ago. They were never designed for these many vehicles.
I was there one night this week 11:30 pm, waze said 1:19 travel time from the Logistics place (the traffic light near the runway) to Far Rockaway
The problem is there are no feasible alternates
They’re going to finish roadwork sooner or later, and things will improve a little, but then the massive new amazon warehouse is going to open with trucks entering and exiting 24/7 and the new additional traffic light right where the biggest bottleneck is already. Remarkably that project was sponsored by the town of henpstead with taxpayer funding (so we’re actually paying more taxes and getting more traffic in return).