Interstate 495
runs from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in New York City to Riverhead, New
York, through the counties of Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk. A total of
70.8 miles in New York State and a mere 3.5 miles for the New Jersey
portion.
I-495 is more popularly know as the L.I E. or Long Island Expressway.
Locals say they call it the LIE because calling it an expressway is a
lie when you consider the amount of vehicle traffic and the congested
traffic conditions experienced almost daily.In 1939, when the Queens Midtown Tunnel was
built, construction on the Long Island Expressway began. The Riverhead terminus
was finished in 1972. During those three decades plans have been proposed to
extend the LIE across the Long Island Sound to either Guilford, Connecticut or
Rhode Island via a series of man-made islands. Public opposition or lack of
funding have always quieted these proposals. Later, more successful plans,
included creating the Mid-Manhattan Expressway across Manhattan to the Lincoln
Tunnel, to connect to I-95 in New Jersey. The NJ stretch of I-495 was downgraded
to a NJ state highway and then renewed as an active feeder from the New Jersey
Turnpike exit 15. |
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