New York’s Proposal for a Tunnel to Long Island 

A stadium in Yaphank wuld be a terrible idea tho. If they do move them I'd wish for it to be in place of all the chop shops at Willets point.

@@brenislanders If people can drive to Jersey, they could take a drive on the LIE out to exit 68. Much more direct and pleasant, and at least it's in the state of New York.

@@genebigs1749 meh, the meadowlands are 10 mins from Manhattan, yaphank well over an hour. agree with you on the rest though.

best place for a stadium now would be pilgrim state grounds

@@joemoschetta1541 no it wouldn't. do you not realize that stadiums have to be close to population centers to actually draw fans? shea stadium was right in queens. metlife is 10 minutes from Manhattan. having a stadium in the middle of long island makes no sense for the team and the people living there. and I say this as someone who would have much shorter commute times to games if it was where you say.

New York toll oh my God it's probably going to be a hundred bucks both ways at least it will be in the next few years the Verrazano is like nineteen eighteen bucks now

$40.00 round trip.

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i'm from Long Island but glad that i'm gone from NY.

I live in the bronx right at the end of the mainland usa, cppse enough.

I live on Long Island to

Also a Long Islander. I love this idea but I doubt that it would happen.

They want exclusivity not easy access

Thats what i thought

Eminent domain man

Absolutely correct. The North shore of LI is the gold coast. If it were middle to lower class it would of been done already because who really cares for those people.

@@oilman1758 I mean I live there it’s not *THAT* rich

Fight for it. You do need it. Fight

Hahaha. It takes 3hrs drive to travel from Stony Brook to Yale (or 1hr 45 min from Ship). Having a tunnel or bridge in between would hardly take you 20-25 minutes😅

Was about to make this exact comment. Rich people on the "gold coast" would never let this happen due to the increased traffic around their neighborhoods, however the rest of Long Island and their home prices will suffer when people realize its not worth dealing with 4 hours of NYC traffic just to get to the rest of America. People like my father made us suffer with hours of traffic just to go quading or skiing and its nowhere near worth it.

=SORRY TO DISAPPOINT BUT SEEMS TO BE YOU'RE BEEN HELD HOSTAGE BY "AUTHORITIES AMONG U.S.'S WORLD OF AUTHORITIES" .....SO YOU GOT THIS RIGHT,THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE OF RESISTANCE OF RICHES...SO MOVE OUT FROM THERE.......EVEN BRIDGE WOULD COST NOTHING THOSE RICHES WILL JUST BAN THE PROJECT,BECAUSE OF THEY GOT CONNECTIONS.....

@@almiranteandres7550 =IF HE'LL DO,HE'LL FIND HIMSELF QUICKLY IN JAIL BECAUSE OF THAT'S RESORT OF SORT OF LIKE HIGHER AUTHORITIES OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY......AM I RIGHT?...AND THOSE ARE NOW IN CRUSADE AGAINST ALL NON DEMOCRATS .....ALSO I'VE HEARD THAT THEY'RE AGAINST TRUMP'S PROJECTS OF SCHOOL TO BE CHOSEN FREELY....

Well said i live on Long Island extremely close to Oyster bay...Our roads are trash lol

Lol

Exactly!! Thank god someone else See's how inefficient government is! Thank you!

The roads all over the island r trash fuhhhh

Long Island is boring only good for pandemics

There is a tunnel between Detroit and Ontario. It was built during the depression. Toute suite.

Seriously where I live on Long Island they’ve been repairing the same overpass for three years now and they’ve barely even started

I was just about to say this. A tunnel like this would take decades to build with the amount of corruption and incompetency there is in NYC.

@Philip Gannello That was 1930. Nowadays, it would take 18 months just to do the environmental report lol.

@@NorthPoleSun And at the same time China is considering building a 104 km (64 mils) long tunnel

yeah, it’s weird hearing about li in a sort of “clinical” sense lmao

They would probably hire people to riot

1000% and that is exactly why the Seaford/Oysterbay Expressway stops dead a Jericho Tpke ..

Stop your complaining. This is new york . You want more money? More building and more traffic more business

@@isaacd7619 I'm not complaining I'm just saying what they will do just like when they were building jakes 58 people went nuts lol

Facts

You’ll also notice how there are huge highways cutting up Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, but similar highway projects never got final approval in Manhattan because the wealthier residents had the money and political power to stop their neighborhoods being destroyed. Also Queens and the Bronx have noisy overhead subways while Manhattan has quiet underground subways. The wealthy always will win.

@@corbinvickers9993 Another example would be the Northern state parkway's "objector's bend".

i live in huntington and go to a private school in oyster bay and see the traffic but the rich people don’t care they’ll just boat to Connecticut i’m considered upper middle class and i’m all for it, it’s for the average person who has a job in the city and doesn’t want traffic or for someone who goes to school upstate and it sucks that the rich wanna destroy them

Funny cause if it weren't for him the gold coast probably wouldn't of existed

If Robert Moses couldn't do it no one can

NY Rte. 135 on Long Island was intended to be a part of I-287 in anticipation of the bridge.

Nah, Cuomo will name it after himself.

Needs to be done I’m from LongIsland Ny. Would be nice.

Long Long Island bridge

That I like. Catchy. But leave it up to Cuomo naming it after him like he changed the tappen zee bridge

@Griffin Wale long island bridge or L.I.B. is suficent enough

My watch is 3hrs fast and I can't fix it. So I'm going to move to Long Island.

Port Jefferson Ferry bada bing bada boom

"Long Island will never be able to grow or expand properly as a growing metropolitan area should"....what does "should" mean? Where is it written that the island or any part of this planet "should" be or become anything. I've lived almost all of my life on the island and it has GROWN absurdly. Western and middle Suffolk is now Nassau; it's crowded, dirty, and OVER POPULATED. Places that had zero trafic years ago now has non-stop-backed up traffic six days a week from 3 PM to 7PM. This is NOT the island we moved from Brooklyn to in 1971. We cannot "grow" any more-unless you want to see all of the island look like Brooklyn-which any/every true Islander does not want.

thats not true. they would be building a new path. meaning they would not have to close any highways off to do it.

How?

@@SekyiTV because the North shore area where the bridge will be built is filled with one of the largest mansion suburban sprawl in the United States. I doubt they'll want the highway and large congestion in their neighborhood

@@SofaSpy I live there and you are absolutely right as well as not wanting the traffic. traffic is already horrid over here not all of us live in mansions it’s dense many places

Or anyone over 30 with kids.

Wouldn't you love to bulldoze their homes to bring crime from Port Chester to the center of Long Island?

Politicians loves money

Its New York,,,, Prices are always inflated on everything!!!!!

Skilled labor costs.... unless you want cheap then you get a Swiss cheese tunnel

Paris is currently building four new lines of subway (124 miles of tunnels) for 50 bn dollars 😂 so yes it’s less expensive in Europe

A 100km tunnel from Finland to Estonia would cost only under 20bn compared with that 55bn

This comment has to be pinned lol

Upper crust...you meant upper echelons...all that money the south shore sapped from us in education spending and still you talk with a plumber's asscrack articulate

Upper people with educations and pride in their homes, not wanting scum moving in and turning into Queens 2.0 full of shitty people with zero standards.

@@thomasmacgruber6701 we busted ass to get out of Queens. This is the dream achieved and they want to cut their commute 25 minutes to build 2000k temporary jobs funded by us here on the north shore to displace over 10k and drive the air and water quality into Sheepshead Bay. People who want to be successful that aren't taking shots at those who made it. Smdh, they also left out the part about the aquifers they'd destroy. Environmental unfriendly, period

Eddie Tide exactly! This will never happen, and that's a good thing, all these fools in the comments saying this would be good have literally zero understanding of how LI actually works...

Helicopters*

Train tunnel from kings park through the old kings park psychiatric hospital. Now a park. Can build 3 story parking garage and a link to sunken meadow parkway. There is a reason the state has kept the property that sits there on the water. Dilapidated buildings and partially used for soccer games. Google it and see how an expanded kings park station could be built there with parking and solar panels. Property just sits there.

Amy Fisher's tunnel had enough exposure in her porn movie!

I was born right next door to you, I was born and raised in Port Chester NY.

Chen, you’re Rong!

The people in long island got a stick up their ass. They dont like city folk or upstate ppl.

@@isaacd7619 we are not upstate, you mean Westchester county New York

@@tiffanymariezaccagnino2599 A lot of people in NYC and LI would consider anything above the 5 boroughs as “upstate”. Truthfully, I’m one of those people.

So, if there was a bridge there, it wouldn't take long to get from Bethpage to Ct.?

It is I believe it ends in Woodbury finish it already!

@@nancyomalley9959NY 135 begins in Seaford and ends in Syosset. They should also extend the Bethpage State Parkway north from Bethpage State Park to Caumsett Park and name the portion of the parkway north of the LIE the Caumsett State Parkway. This plan would bring more tourists to Long Island and allow more people to visit Long Island parks in the Summer. NY 135 should definitely be extended north to Rye in Westchester and a cable stayed bridge called the Oyster Bay Rye Bridge should be built to connect NY-135 with I-287 and I-95 in Rye, Westchester County, NY.

to be fair, weve never had to evacuate the island and if we did most people would be too stubborn to do anything about it. theyd just sit in their houses as another katrina level storm flodded their house and makos swam around their feet.

I’m from north shore and it’s going to ruin everything. Yes it may seem good, but it’s going to ruin iconic oyster bay and make everyone’s house worth nothing. Also, if you live on south shore, you don’t care because it doesn’t affect you. But when you live near it’s going to ruin everything we have going on over here.

@@matthewbeggs2803 I agree with that up to a point. Just remember those sentiments when it comes time to bug out and your stuck on the LIE for 5 hours just to get to the Cross Island.

every boomer on long island is acting Amish... everything here was perfect in the 70's just the perfect amount of development for them but absolutely nothing else. smh you people make me sick.

I the State wasn't broke, yeah

Ba dum tss

I see what you did there

Are you out of your mind?????....do you even live here?????...a tunnel will ruin the island!!!!!

@@felictyenglish4780 how would it ruin it? The amount of people coming from upstate down isn't nearly as bad as the amount of people coming from the city, east towards Suffolk. Traffic wouldn't increase THAT much it would just allow people to travel faster

If you don’t own a boat your screwed

@@francisalbert1799 nah bruh I’m swimmin 🤣🤣

@Francis Albert who doesn’t have a boat on Long Island I’ve yet to meet someone without one

@@couldntthinkofaname_1682 ridiculous comment

Don't worry. The wealthy will be able to evacuate in their helicopters.

My uncle bought a property in Wading River in 1960. He said that, at the time, three cars would pass by during a day. By 1994, three cars would pass by every minute.

A bridge isn't going to help traffic one bit, and if anything will make it worse, that's exactly what some of those studies ended up showing... do your hw...

@@metatron5199 ​ I think that that was what happened when Robert Moses built all those roads. It's as if roads act like magnets, attracting cars.

@@everforward8651 Well Robert moses gave us the shittest parkways because he didn't want buses coming in from the city. if they fixed our parkways traffic would be much better

@@bmcunning That's kind of ironic, considering that, after the Second World War, so many people came from Brooklyn and Queens to Nassau and Suffolk (including my father's three siblings), that the stereotype is that all Long Islanders talk like people from the city (I know: people in Brooklyn and Queens refer to Manhattan as "The City.")

People from Cooooork never stop yapping on about that place, nobody cares about the place, particularly in this video. From a fellow Irishman (in case you get a more swollen head thinking people from New York heard of Cork).

Yes, it is the rare road the simply comes to an abrupt "end" at Route 25 (Jericho Turnpike). Though the exit ramps just before that funnel traffic either east or west , the rump of the rest of the road intended to go north to this proposed bridge is still quite visible today. But it's wrong to attribute the entire reason for a a failure to build a bridge or tunnel to opposition from selfish rich homeowners. As only passingly noted, LI is densely populated and already has famously troublesome traffic problems. These types of connections would only make those traffic problems worse. More traffic would flow through LI even when the origin or destination of many trips would have nothing to do with LI itself. For example, a motorist traveling from say Boston to Philadelphia could use this type of a bridge and avoid almost all of NYC, but that advantage would offer essentially no benefit to LI itself. That's part of why this bridge has never been built. Why there's been almost no discussion of a rail bridge is also a worthy topic of review.

Yo primo how you doing. Been awhile since I found you.

Still wouldn't solve the $60 toll each way problem.

Matthew Anderson ... You're right. It's like putting a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

the reason the "expanded and enlarged ferry service will never work is why it does not now. 80$ round trip !?! Most people would rather sit in traffic for hours and save the $$$ then cough up for the less than great savings in time that taking the ferry is.

Relieve most of the traffic on highways going to nyc

Get up early !

@@bruceglover7971 you're part of the problem. Solving an issue people have been talking about since '38 isn't gonna ever get fixed if everyone just "gets up earlier"

I was thinking the same thing

It’s Route 108 in Cold Spring Harbor, Route 104 is in Upstate New York from Buffalo to Syracuse.

Rich old white ppl. But if it was people of color it would of been done 🙁

Yea

well the infrastructure in new york is probably old and decrepit enough to have existed in a Tolkien universe so maybe you are on to something.

A lot of town the Long Island sound like they come from a fantasy novel

TalenGryphon Middle Earth (NZ) has better infrastructure than the good ole Un-United States of America! Even our potholes are of a better quality!

yes to me a high speed rail way connecting LI to NYC and JFK would make more sense

Bruh

It’ll Probably be called the Andrew Cuomo bridge

He wouldn't want his name on it. It might mess with his neighbors property values.

Dear Leader Bridge.

@@atimkelly he sold his center island house and yes it would screw up the values of his former elite neighborhood of Centre Island with some house in the realm of 30 plus million. #SaveTheOysters

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went to HHS?

west babylon here!

Yeeeeees!!

Merrick

Hell no, Huntington is full enough. Why would anyone want this?

Then your consultation on this matter has expired, the bridge now will be build according to the best available plan, your opposition is now of no use

It needs to be an invisible bridge or tunnel that can be created without any construction and that doesn't increase traffic or bring in outsiders

Correct, it actually would only increase traffic on the island and studies have shown this already...

for that to work the trains would have to go out of their way to use it

@@keeganharris186 Wow you people really accept these construction projects?? In my country when we build a similar structure like that there is huge opposition by environmentalists and also there are several articles saying how this is an environmental disaster

Pratham Prabhu the actual local residents of any of the proposed location all reject these ideas, exactly for the various reasons you listed, and FYI I'm one of those local's, this plan will never happen, and it shouldn't bc it's not nearly as important or needed as this vid made it out to be...

@@metatron5199 so it exists then, in our country the media and the news more than other important affairs keep showing this for long time till it gets bored

Pratham Prabhu essentially this is a dead idea, it will never happen, for the reasons you mentioned plus many more

The corruption in our state is finally being exposed.

*NordVPN wants to know your location*

@waylon lewin we don't need an escape plan on the north shore, we are high enough from sea level to not have a Katarina-like event. If NYC goes underwater in an apocalyptic scenario, then we would all drowned in bumper to bumper traffic. The escape from Long Island would be a evacuation path clear of the 5 boroughs traffic as well? If LI gets hit with tidal waves or goes under the whole northeastern coast is gone too. Stop with the fantasy fear mongering and move to a different state in a high location.

@waylon lewin no, I will take my beach chair, my Coronas and my Patron, get a nice view and salute to the end of life as we know it. Don't mention the governor concerned for the safety of his state to me, as he did as close to nothing to help the Corona virus outbreak and is currentlyin denial about sending the sick elderly back into nursinf homes. He was right about the orthodox breaking social distancing guidelines but he and Deblasio did jack shit in response or prevention off the Rabbi's 2500 person shiva, who died from covid19 right as NY peaked deaths in April. Don't blame the super spreaders we where all told by the media and politicians in the beginning...yet every Trump event was called a super spreader...more people in the first debate contracted the virus than at the Rose Garden ACB ceremony...🤫

@waylon lewin if you care about rising flood waters than you should know that a sizable amount of retired military personnel have been buying homes in the Appalachians as they expect that to be the only safe haven when the big event comes. If its my time, its my time but just as your property is not mine, mine is not yours to destroy.

@waylon lewin which has what to do with a tunnel when there is the Throgs Neck bridge just a little further west of here? The infrastructure of the roads couldn't handle it either so the project is actuallu closer to $30 billion...🚮

Your right about everything except lessening traffic. There is something called traffic generation. By building a bridge you actually create more traffic on existing roads within a few months of building the facility.

😎Roslyn is in the chat... we are here. And I say build it!

@@seanmurphy4465 Have at it. You want more traffic I guess? It will pollute the sound as well. I'm on the south shore wouldn't affect me really at all.

Unions, Subaru.

You're absolutely right! China would also complete the job at less than half the costs and with their prices could accomplish twice the amount of work.

Exactly! Or how about "Global Warming Emergency Evacuation Managment Protocols." 😂🤣😄

yea much cheaper to do that, especially if the ground under the sound is not very solid where you cant bore a tunnel.

Dude it's not hard at all, you literally need zero planning, stop lying fool

@@metatron5199 Chill. How I travel is none of your business.

it's unbearable. He's got great video ideas but I can't finish them.

ON long island

Dissje was the Impostor

You ain't no Long Islander, no one on Long Island say "lives in" we say "lives on" if you were an actual islander you would know this, nice try tho

@@metatron5199 lol true statement

I think the towns have their own character: Northport, Patchogue, Huntington, Southhampton, and Montauk all look unique.

@Joe Libra why did it go there?? And how do you know??

There are 3 existing bridges from Long Island (Queens) to the Bronx. The largely acknowledged "lesson learned" from the Robert Moses era of building these bridges is that new bridges are almost immediately saturated with overwhelming new traffic density (attracted by the new bridge option) "A If you build it, they will come" mindset. Further, Connecticut & Rhode Island will never allow a bridge to Long Island, as it provides zero benefit to them. Also, residents on LI's north fork are overwhelming opposed to widening roads/adding density that such a bridge would require. Right now, a New York-sponsored bridge (to Rye ?) is highly unlikely, as it has been opposed by local LI and Westchester factions for decades. Also, NYS is/will be in extreme economic hardship for 10-20 yrs (Covid) during which mass transit needs and maint of existing highways & bridges will consume 99% of State & Fed-contributed budget.

Long Island is connected to the mainland with many bridges and tunnels and it has been for over a century. The problem is that they are all in densely populated areas that already have very heavy motor vehicle traffic.

Ok. So the do have bridges, only that there is a lot of cars in LI. to much traffic, well you have to do something, hope you can fix it.

We have plenty already, and we don't want any new ones, they will not do the things that are stated in this vid, they are just a bad idea and a huge waste of money especially when it can be spent much more productively elsewhere...

Good

If the Throggs neck is always under construction think about what you are saying how long do you think a NEW proposed bridge or tunnel would take put on your thinking cap

@@jackiemack8653 it would take 55 billion 3 decades and never open like the decommissioned Shorham plant, and it would pollute the air ground and water...this time not with radiation with though. Sounds good? Sweet thinking cap, dunce

@@jackiemack8653 if you put on your glasses I wrote “by the time something gets done I’ll be dead” I don’t need a thinking cap to know it’ll never even gain traction and even if it did it’ll sit in limbo forever

Orient is like 30 miles to yaphank so depending on where you live it can easily be 50

Bc the north shore of LI is some of the most desirable land to live on in the world, literally we have billionaires across the Gold Coast... it will never happen and that's good bc it won't be as good as it is made out to seem in this vid... many negative issues

California and Mexico have hundreds of miles of connected land. Wtf are you talking about?

@@seanmurphy4465 Baja California to mainland Mexico

Train tracks is the best option along with the highway.

BRO Im from amityville its so bad nd ghetto here

So build one threw your county's town to the north. A lot of prime real estate in Kings Park last time i checked. Try moving instead. The traffic is horrible because illegal immigrants have settled here for decades and they are having more kids than you and they are now driving. Should have built a wall instead 🚮

@@eddietide2129 lol "economic anxiety " much? Traffic is getting worse because of the growing population overall not "illegals" reproducing more than long islanders...

@@clevernamegotban1752 people who can afford to live here either died of old age, or moved before they died. The illegals, specifically their legal children are such a big factor in the Oyster Bay area they had to hire translators because 6-8 year old children showed up in the schools not knowing one word of English and there is constant town meetings over under funded budgets..because the parents never paid taxes into a system their children benefit from. Overpopulation...the people that can afford to live here are have 3 kids max, the people who can't are having 4-7 and we are paying for it. Not the kids fault, the parents...the illegals. Also, since new housing was scarce, there has been a rise in apartments...the sides of those apartments are all tagged up with bad hombre graffiti as are every street sign in Oyster Bay, which actually indicates drug drop zones...but you might say something to the effect of those rich kids love doing drugs...the dealers might look like themselves but the suppliers have always been Queens/ Westbury gang affiliates. Basically, GFY. Incase you feel like giving some of your money to me instead of voting to take my money and give it to you i can always DM you my PayPal adress...please list the payment as reparations so i don't get taxed on my own money being sent back to me. Thief

@@eddietide2129 ​Well I live on the South Shore of Long Island and I know plenty of legal parents who have more than 3 kids. I ran track in HS and went to meets and races all over the Island. Roughly 75-80% of the people who I ran against were white english speakers, and the other 15-18% or so were black from the city or predominantly black towns on LI. Very few Hispanic people or and I can't remember one time where I heard someone speaking Spanish at a meet. Town budgets on LI aren't being draining solely because they have to hire a few translators lmao, studies show that hispanic people that move to the U.S usually pick up english pretty quick, some say they are transitioning to english as fast or faster than the german immigrants in the U.S back in the 1900's. Those "illegals" would pay taxes if they were U.S citizens but the GOP and Trump have repeatedly sent ICE after them hunting them for deportation and closing paths to citizenship. OFC they are not going to try to become taxpaying citizens right now because A. The process to become a citizen either doesn't exist or isn't readily available or B. They're scared that if they reveal themselves to the state that ICE will send them back to their home country which for many of them is unsafe. They'd rather live in fear of deportation than live in fear of their lives somewhere else. You can't blame illegals for not paying taxes when they can't become U.S citizens in the first fucking place. I've noticed a lot of the new housing/apartment places and most of them I've personally seen are going up in decent areas and actually look rather nice, usually by train stations. Seriously dude have you been outside whatever town you are from? Or do you just get the news from your pals on facebook without ever traveling around? Because I live on the island you're trying to describe and I have yet to see any of the type of stuff you've mentioned. If you wanna stop paying for translators than you can move off the island too! (Just like how you were telling others that if they didn't like the traffic they could leave LI) Your imaginary notion that traffic has gotten worse because of "illegals" having too many kids is a joke, most of those people can barely afford 1 car per family. You're a salty ...salty boomer IF you think LI is being ruined by "illegals" and your taxes aren't doing anything good than stop crying about something you clearly can't change pick up your shit and move somewhere else where you can be happy. Sounds to me like you're just pounding your thick head into a wall over and over again.

And extend route 135 the Seaford Oyster Bay

ya but driving to queens or bk takes me like 30 minutes and i dont have to be around ppl in tight spaces and i dont have to worry about getting harassed by weirdos and i can operate on my own schedule 😉😝

@J. S. What is your address tell me?

It's driving me insane, and I couldn't find any comments mentioning his voice until I found yours! Kinda sing songy too. Down and then up at the end.