West Broadway road project to begin in 2023

A Nassau County road overhaul project that is expected to cost $30 million and was first introduced in 2015 is beginning its final stages of design and planning, and is expected to get under way in the spring of 2023 with an anticipated completion date of Dec. 31, 2024.

Information on what is called the West Broadway Reconstruction and Drainage Improvement Project was presented at a meeting hosted by County Legislators Denise Ford and Howard Kopel at the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club in Lawrence on Dec. 7.

Representatives from the Brookhaven-based engineering firm of L. K. McLean Associates showed a multi-slide presentation on the work that is planned to be done on a 2.15-mile stretch of road along West Broadway from Mill Road in Hewlett to Rockaway Turnpike in Cedarhurst.

Ford and Kopel noted they have been working on this for years and said funding issues at the county level have held the work hostage. “We are trying to get this done,” Kopel said, about what he called a “complete rebuild of West Broadway.”

Along with the roadwork, New York American Water plans to install and a new water main that aims to improve water quality and the county will update the traffic signals at the 12 locations along West Broadway.

“It’s going to be a big mess,” Kopel added. Accenting the positive, Ford said: “It will provide better roads, better drainage and safer roads.”

Ken Arnold, the county’s commissioner of Public Works, called the project one the largest it has done. Officials said that more meetings on the project are likely.

An expanded story will appear in the Dec. 16 edition  of the Nassau Herald.