We won't take people from bar to bar, but if they give us a call we will take them home. There's no way to measure how many lives this program may have saved during the years it has been in operation, but we feel that this has been a very valuable community service for everyone on the roadways during New Year's Eve and early New Year's Day.
Quotes about roadways (14 Quotes)
I think the weather contributed quite a bit. We have had some crashes which look like people have been losing control on slippery roadways and things like that.
But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.
It's just unfortunate that Smithtown has chosen to move ahead with this. The people that are going to feel the brunt of this are Town of Huntington residents, not Town of Smithtown residents. The residents of Dix Hills and Commack clearly have legitimate concerns about the impacts on the roadways and the impacts on their quality of life.
More than five million Texans are expected to travel for the Christmas-New Year's holiday, with the majority of those travelers driving to their destination. In an effort to keep the roadways safe, we encourage partygoers to act responsibly by buckling up and having a designated driver or to utilize our Tipsy Tow service.
In the past three years, we've definitely begun to see a difference. A lot of the progress so far has been in attitude and planning, because actually changing the roadways takes time. But a lot is happening now, and these two areas will be a big step in the right direction.
It is very important that our people using the roadways realize how important it is to watch out for our children,
With freezing water on the roadways following the snow removal there's concern about the black ice.
Improving access and roadways is also addressed in the plan.
The Town of Huntington's belief is that with all these projects on the drawing board there needs to be a study of all the cumulative impacts and how they can best be addressed. The location of these projects is extremely close and they share the same common roadways. There has to be a cumulative impact. We are not trying to hold up the project. We are trying to foster good planning. Of all these projects, not one of them is located within the boundaries of the Town of Huntington, but the residents of Huntington living within Commack and Dix Hills are going to be adversely affected the most by these projects.
If the running conditions on the roadways were hazardous to our runners, that would be sufficient to cancel or delay the event. I'm mostly concerned that our volunteers will opt to stay home because of the frigid conditions. The runners, for the most part
You're just immersed in your own narrow-minded thrill of the speed, and you just disregard all of the consequences to yourself and the innocent people on the roadways,
Because everything else stems from that the roadways, schools, everything - hence the need to control it.
By knowing where we plan to build in the future we'll be able to restrict building on land that will be needed for future roadways.