$107M for 8 LI paving projects, including for Sunrise Highway, set for next year, Gov. Hochul says
Vehicles move along Sunrise Highway in Bay Shore on April 3. Portions of Sunrise Highway are among eight pavement projects to be done by New York State next year. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost
State officials will invest $107 million in eight pavement projects on Long Island next year covering 225 miles, including portions of Sunrise Highway and Hempstead Turnpike.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the funding on Wednesday that will cover $34 million in Suffolk County and $73 million in Nassau County for repaving of state routes managed by the New York Department of Transportation.
The funding includes $23 million to repave state Route 24, which runs as Conklin Street from Route 110 in Farmingdale and as Hempstead Turnpike to the Meadowbrook State Parkway in East Meadow.
The construction projects are part of $600 million in statewide projects, which the governor’s office billed as the largest paving project in state history and covers more than 2,100 miles of roads in New York. The funding was included in the state budget under a five-year $34.3 billion capital plan through 2027.
"Next year we will be making an unprecedented investment to improve state roads across New York," Hochul said in a statement. "New Yorkers will be seeing crews out there like never before next year, rejuvenating highways, enhancing the safety of the traveling public, and laying a solid foundation for economic development across the Empire State."
Other projects include repaving sections of Sunrise Highway in Nassau and Suffolk counties, state officials said.
State highway workers will repave a combined nearly $50 million stretch of Sunrise Highway along Route 27 from the Queens-Nassau County line to the Wantagh State Parkway and the Nassau-Suffolk line.
In Suffolk County, the state will spend nearly $20 million to repave Sunrise Highway from the Suffolk County line to North Monroe Avenue in Lindenhurst and from Route 109-Farmingdale Road in Lindenhurst to Udall Road in West Islip.
Another project will spend $7 million to repave Route 110 from Amityville to Baylis Road in Melville.
Work will also include a $7.3 million project to repave Jericho Turnpike in Commack from Kings Park Road to Route 111 in Smithtown.
The work follows the completion of a nearly $18 million restoration of a 6-mile stretch of the Long Island Expressway from Yaphank to Wading River and an $18 million project to repave a portion of the Northern State Parkway from the Wantagh Parkway to Huntington.
"Our roads are in desperate need of attention, and this project is an important example of the improvements that need to be made across Suffolk County," Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine said in a statement.
The Long Island Contractors’ Association also said the $107 million paving improvements on Long Island were "desperately needed."
"With some of the worst extreme weather in the state, it is essential that we continue to invest in the critical infrastructure that keeps residents moving safely," the association’s executive director Marc Herbst said in a statement.
John Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.
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