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In February, 2007, the Hewlett-Woodmere Library hosted a town hall meeting for Eschbacher, the firm doing the study. Another meeting was held two years later in Hewlett Harbor. Almost five years later, no one at Nassau County, including Howard Kopel, who represents the area in the Nassau Legislature, knows anything about the study's recommendations. Town of Hempstead refers all questions to Nassau County. In the meantime traffic on Broadway, between Franklin in Hewlett and Franklin in Woodmere, is frequently at a complete standstill, particularly eastbound.
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Not only has it not been fixed, but after after I had finally located where the report had been shelved (using FOIL at one point), with all local officials having denied knowledge of its existence(!), I received a copy in the mail, but when I followed it up with Public Works was told by an assistant that it really had been shelved, but permanently, based on what allegedly was resistance by "local merchants" to the report's recommendations.
I therefore met with the editor of our local weekly, the Nassau Herald, gave him a copy of the report, and assisted him in preparing a front page story. That ran in July, as did a letter that I wrote, fleshing out the history.
Nothing has happened. No Nassau County official has shown the slightest interest, and the traffic situation has, if anything, become worse. There are "fixes" available, but no one with whom to sit down about them.
Ben Eilbott