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Why parkways' drivers end up in the dark

Traffic builds on the Southern State Parkway.

Photo credit: Newsday/Joe Epstein | Traffic builds on the Southern State Parkway. (Sept. 4, 2009)

Judy Cartwright

Judy Cartwright Judy Cartwright

Judy Cartwright writes the Community Watchdog column

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On some stretches of the Southern State and Meadowbrook State parkways, car headlights are the only illumination.

Several readers have contacted Watchdog to report darkness along both roads. On the Southern State, they point to a section from Exit 18 (Eagle Avenue) to Exit 19 (Peninsula Boulevard). On the Meadowbrook, it's dark south of Exit 9 (Merrick Road), a section where one caller said...

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