Re: Rye-Oyster Bay Br--sister Bridge?

On Mar 5, 2:31 pm, hanco...@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In the 1960s there was a proposed Rye - Oyster Bay bridge, six miles
long, that was never built. In the proposal there was to be another
bridge to be built later further east.

Would anyone know how far plans developed for the other bridge, if at
all, including its endpoints?

Would a Rye Oyster Bay bridge make a material difference in traffic in
and around NYC area? Basically it would give more travel options to
those who travel between LI and CT, but I don't see much other
benefit. People from the south headed to Connecticut would still have
to traipse through the crowded NYC area no matter what.

The problem is the endless (yet, in my opinion, unavoidable) cycle of
building new capacity only to have it filled up in relatively short
order, thus requiring for capacity, and so on. Sure, it would help in
the short term, but not the long term. I don't think anything helps
out in the long term except for economic decline.

I suppose transit-freaks will pop up now claiming that we need to get
more people on a form of transportation that doesn't run on their
schedule or carry their groceries for them...Transit is a supplement
to pavement, not a replacement...

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