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Sunrise Highway set for night roadwork

Resurfacing, major repairs will help Lynbrook residents, businesses

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Construction on a three-and-a-half mile stretch of Sunrise Highway has begun — and business owners and residents along the thoroughfare think it will be a great benefit once it’s all done.

Work on the $6.7 million westbound project began at Harrison Avenue in Freeport on May 5 and will continue to Broadway in Lynbrook. The $9.2 million eastbound project began on May 19, and crews started working on Sunrise at Harrison in Freeport and will make their way to the Wantagh Parkway.

Lynbrook Mayor William Hendrick said he is happy to see the work done on Sunrise Highway because of its potholes and generally poor condition. “It’s a great asset to our village,” Hendrick said. “It cleans up Sunrise Highway, which has been a little rocky lately.”

Bill Gaylor, the Lynbrook Chamber of Commerce’s vice president of government affairs, said that because the construction will be going on at night, there should be no adverse effect on the local business. In fact, he said there should only be a positive impact on business once the construction is completed.

“The better condition the road is in, the better it is for all of us,” Gaylor said. “I applaud the Department of Transportation for taking the initiative.”

Greg Zizzo, a driver for Cancos Tile in Lynbrook, agreed that the construction will not hurt business. “It’s happening at night, so it’s not really going to affect us,” he said.

Lynbrook Department of Public Works Superintendent Phil Healy said that the village’s only involvement with the work was in its planning. He said that a main goal was to make Sunrise Highway safer for pedestrians. “There’s always things you can do to make it nicer and calm down traffic,” he said.

According to Healey, there will be improvements to nine pedestrian signals by increasing their visibility and adding enhanced crosswalk countdown signals. There will also be increased pedestrian ramps to make them more accessible and safer. Healey said the plan is to add more crosswalks through the center island of Sunrise Highway.

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