NY budget cuts end landscaping of LI roads
Photo credit: Ed Betz | New York State Department of Transportation workers plant shrubs on the median of the Sagtikos Parkway in Kings Park. (Sept. 24, 2012)
The state is ending major landscape projects on its Long Island roads for the next five years as the Department of Transportation tightens its budget.
A $1.9-million project under way to landscape and beautify several roads, including Sunken Meadow Parkway and the Long Island Expressway, is the last, state transportation officials said.
"This is the last exclusive landscape project of...
