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The truth behind Centerport's new signal

A new traffic light has been installed at

Photo credit: iStock | A new traffic light has been installed at Montauk Highway and Barberry Road, an intersection near West Islip High School where a student was critically injured in 2011 while walking to school and where several car accidents have taken place.

Judy Cartwright

Judy Cartwright Judy Cartwright

Judy Cartwright writes the Community Watchdog column

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When a brand-new traffic signal came to Centerport, Watchdog got an earful.

 

'It's an unbelievably ridiculous thing," one reader said in January. "We don't need extra things like this on Long Island . . . You can't make everybody on a main road stop every time someone comes out of a side road."

And early this month: "I thought you might be a person to investigate what I consider...

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