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Plan to divert truck traffic through North Fork scrapped by N.Y. Metropolitan Transportation Council
The Cross Sound Enhancement Project was stricken from the N.Y. Metropolitan Transportation Council’s regional freight transportation plan in a unanimous vote of the council's planning and administration committee yesterday afternoon in NYC.
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Regional freight plan would divert 3,000 trucks per year from I-95 to LIE via ferry to North Fork; surprising local officials
A regional freight transportation plan has since 2010 had a provision tucked inside that calls for the “enhancement” of ferry services out of Orient that would boost truck traffic on local roads by an estimated 3,000 more trucks each year.
