While the latest volley of bells, whistles and delayed red-light cycles are welcome in alleviating the South Fork’s colossal bottlenecking problem, any superficial effort to ease the traffic is akin to using a hand bucket to stop the sinking of the Titanic [“Southampton Traffic Experiment Showed Big Improvements in Commute Times During First Week; New Changes Tried This Week,” 27east.com, April 27]. Short of turning all the quaint towns to car-free Amish-type communities, the East End will remain a collision course of cars, trucks, buses, vans, cement mixers, dump trucks, lumber semis, landscaper rigs, construction and professional vans, UPS, FedEx, and Amazon deliveries.
I often drive my mother east to admire the architecture of the modern houses and end up spending too much time trolling the sights along the Southampton bypass.
Elon Musk, our modern-day innovator on the level of Thomas Edison, came up with a boring digger that could easily tunnel an underground roadway following the tracks of the Long Island Railroad, with entrance and exit ramps along the way. Such a tunnel could begin east of the Shinnecock Canal and extend to Amagansett.
The dug-out sand might be used for building up the dunes along the ocean.
Donathan Salkaln
Center Moriches
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