Enhancing the electrical system’s reliability

New and more durable utility poles to be installed; Cedarhurst LIRR lot to be repaved

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To increase the dependability of the electric circuit that serves the villages of Cedarhurst and Lawrence, PSEG-Long Island is slated to replace existing wires, install new and more durable utility poles, and install or replace switching equipment in an effort to reduce the number of customers affected by a power outage.

The work along a 2.6-mile stretch covers what PSEG officials call the “electric Main line circuit. The work is scheduled to begin this month and take four months to complete.

“PSEG-Long Island is beginning an additional circuit improvement project throughout the Town of Hempstead and villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst, increasing the number of Hempstead residents that will have the best-in-class system reliability that PSEG- Long Island is continually striving to deliver,” John O’Connell, the utility’s vice president of transmission and distribution operations, said in a prepared statement.

Work will be done along these streets:
Oakland Avenue between Hemlock Drive and Peninsula Boulevard

Peninsula Boulevard between Branch Boulevard and Albemarle Road.
West Broadway between Linwood and Roselle avenues.
Cedarhurst Avenue between West Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
Fifth Avenue between Cedarhurst and Washington avenue.
Washington Avenue between Fifth and Pearsall avenues.
Lawrence Avenue between Pearl Street and Mott Avenue.
Mott Avenue between Lawrence Avenue and John Street.
Rockaway Turnpike between Central Avenue and Broadway.
Meadow Lane between Broadway and Causeway Road.
Kenbridge Road between Meadow Lane and Washington Avenue South.
Washington Avenue South between Broadway and Bayberry Road.

Funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Assistance Program, a portion of the more than $729 million that were obtained by the Long Island Power Authority in 2014 will be used for this project. The program was established to harden electrical distribution infrastructure against future storm damage and help restore power quicker and more efficiently.

Repaving in Cedarhurst

Motorists who park their vehicles in the 47-space Long Island Rail Road-owned parking lot on the north side of the Cedarhurst train station will have a smoother road to ride on as the site will be repaved, along with the Gibson and Little Neck stations at a cost of $1.33 million, Metropolitan Transit Authority officials said as the proposal recommended by the Long Island Committee of the MTA board was approved by the full MTA board on Sept. 28.

Two additional parking spaces as well as new wheel stops will be created at the Cedarhurst lot. A new sidewalk with two curbs cuts for handicap access will be installed, along with curbing, a guardrail and signage.

“All three parking lots are fully utilized and we have received some customer complaints regarding conditions,” LIRR President Patrick A. Nowakowaski, said a in media release. “These surface lots at the Little Neck, Cedarhurst and Gibson stations have reached the end of their useful life and required new asphalt surface, striping, site work and signage.”

In the past few years., the LIRR has refurbished the parking lots in Lawrence, Kew Gardens, Laurelton, at Merillon Avenue, Ronkonkoma, Stony Brook and Montauk. Funding these projects comes from the MTA’s capitol program.