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Experts: Dim future for big LI transportation projects

Originally published: March 28, 2010 9:29 PM
Updated: March 28, 2010 9:48 PM
By REID J. EPSTEIN reid.epstein@newsday.com

An eastbound LIRR train enters the Freeport station.

Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr. | An eastbound LIRR train enters the Freeport station. (March 1, 2010)

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With Long Island's dour economy, shrinking state revenues and strong "not-in-my-backyard" tendency, the prospect of new large-scale, government-funded transportation projects being launched anytime soon in the region appears bleak, experts said Sunday.

Reacting to Newsday's special section Sunday focusing on Long Island's transportation woes, experts said smaller, less costly solutions funded...

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