Trucks Must Avoid Parkways!

Andrew Brodlieb endured a terrible commute this morning. But the extra 45 minutes gave him time enough to take this picture for our amusement! LOL!

When I first saw this picture, I guessed that the problem in question was at the Long Island Expressway-Cross Island Parkway multiplex (Exit 31 of I-495). But I was WRONG!

Deep in the heart of Moses territory (near Babylon and Jericho hahaha), Andrew was travelling on the Northern State Parkway, where "Exit 31" is Glen Cove Road, and "Exit 31A" is the Meadowbrook State Parkway. An area fraught with peril for non-local truck drivers searching for the Interstate, who knows what might cause such lapses in judgement? Though truckers have no business approaching either of these roads, perhaps the giddy anticipation of a county-wide conversion to the metric system (Nassau's only metric signage can be found at the Glen Cove Road exit of the NSP) was enough to confuse the trucker involved in this accident. Or maybe he had just had a "truckers' breakfast" at the Seacrest Diner?

Even though many paranoid, neurotic area mothers who don't drive SUVs are greatful, I suspect most NY-area truckers still rue the day RM created our parkway system.