{"id":2413,"date":"2016-04-14T22:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2016-04-14T22:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:16:25","slug":"newsday-says-dot-says-mcr-will-be-repaved-sometime-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=2413","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Says DOT Says MCR Will Be Repaved…Sometime in 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Newsday<\/em><\/p>\n

1.4-mile stretch of Middle Country Road to be repaved, state says<\/strong><\/p>\n

Updated April 14, 2016 2:13 PM
\nBy Carl MacGowan carl.macgowan@newsday.com<\/p>\n

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State officials have announced a plan to repave a 1.4-mile stretch of Middle Country Road in Middle Island that some residents say is an embarrassment to the community.<\/p>\n

Regular users of the road, state Route 25, say years of neglect has left it pockmarked with potholes and ruts. Residents say they do anything they can to avoid the road\u2019s rough spots, even driving on the shoulder or in a center median.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve done a lot of patching, but it doesn\u2019t really resolve the problem,\u201d Middle Island resident Bob Hall said in a telephone interview. \u201cThis is just the most deplorable stretch of New York State road I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Department of Transportation spokeswoman Eileen Peters said in an email the repaving project is set to begin later this year and will be completed by Dec. 31. She said the state had awarded the contract for the project in February, but a start date had not been set.<\/p>\n

The \u201cmill and fill\u201d project will repave the road from Arnold Drive east to Yaphank-Middle Island Road, Peters said.<\/p>\n

Middle Island residents use the road to get almost everywhere, including supermarkets, post offices and stores, said Gail Lynch-Bailey, president of the Middle Island Civic Association. Middle Island Fire Department is on Arnold Drive, and Longwood Public Library is at the intersection of Route 25 and Yaphank-Middle Island Road.<\/p>\n

Lynch-Bailey said ambulance crews have told her they pull off Route 25 because they can\u2019t safely treat patients while traveling on the bumpy road.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe past three years, it has been abominable,\u201d Lynch-Bailey said. \u201cRoute 25 is our Main Street and it really is a shameful disaster. I feel like we\u2019re going through a war zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding to the frustration is incomplete information from officials about plans to improve the road, Hall and Lynch-Bailey said. They said a state DOT website lists the road as \u201cunder construction,\u201d though work has not begun.<\/p>\n

\u201cPinning down a date has been next to impossible,\u201d Lynch-Bailey said.<\/p>\n

Jim Byrne of Middle Island said he has spent the past two years calling local officials to complain about conditions on the road. He said it is the only road that takes drivers in and out of the Birchwood at Spring Lake housing development, where he lives.<\/p>\n

Byrne said he has campaigned for road improvements in a monthly newspaper he edits that is distributed to Birchwood\u2019s 733 homes. He fears the road\u2019s problems may turn off potential homeowners.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to try to spotlight it every single month,\u201d he said. \u201cYou come down Route 25 east or west, you\u2019re going to be bouncing around all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Newsday 1.4-mile stretch of Middle Country Road to be repaved, state says Updated April 14, 2016 2:13 PM By Carl MacGowan carl.macgowan@newsday.com State officials have announced a plan to repave a 1.4-mile stretch of Middle Country Road in Middle Island that some residents say is an embarrassment to the community. Regular users of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}