Roads
The Long Island Expressway, Northern State Parkway, and Southern State Parkway, all products of the automobile-centered planning of Robert Moses, make east–west travel on the island straightforward, if not always quick. Indeed, locals refer to Long Island Expressway as "The World's Longest Parking Lot".
For a less stressful ride, one only needs to travel east across Long Island to the "Twin Forks". These two peninsulas offer a long and ambling journey far removed from the hustle and bustle of suburbia and the city further west. Indeed, even after one reaches the end of Long Island Expressway in Riverhead, it is another 45 minute drive along Middle Country Road to reach the eastern end of the North Fork at Orient Point, and over an hour along Sunrise and Montauk Highways to reach Montauk Point at the end of the South Fork.
| Major roads of Long Island | |
| west–east Roads
Ocean Parkway Merrick Road / Montauk Highway Sunrise Highway* Belt Parkway / Southern State Parkway Hempstead Turnpike Grand Central Parkway / Northern State Parkway Long Island Expressway Jericho Turnpike/Middle Country Road Northern Boulevard |
south–north Roads
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Van Wyck Expressway Cross Island Parkway Meadowbrook State Parkway Wantagh State Parkway Cedar Swamp Road/Broadway Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway Broad Hollow Road/New York Avenue Deer Park Avenue Robert Moses Causeway Sagtikos State Parkway / Sunken Meadow State Parkway Islip Avenue Nicolls Road William Floyd Parkway |
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Roads in boldface are limited access roads. *Sunrise Highway is only limited-access from western Suffolk county eastwards. |
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