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There’s long been a rivalry between motorists and cyclists on Long Island. Many, though certainly not all, drivers believe roads are meant exclusively for cars . . .
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9/25/14
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About 120 people got on their bicycles and hit the pavement on Sept. 13 for the first Bruce Pye Memorial Bike Ride, which began at Cedar Creek Park. The group traveled down the bike trail along the Wantagh Parkway, before heading east.
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9/24/14
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I had been pedaling for an hour and a half when I stopped cold. The view, quite simply, stunned me.
It was 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 22, and I was three-quarters of the way through a bike ride up and down the asphalt path that runs along the Wantagh and Ocean parkways, from Nassau County’s Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, to the Town of Oyster Bay’s Tobay Beach Park, in Massapequa. The entire ride, from Cedar Creek to Tobay Beach and back, was 17.6 miles.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/29/14
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Heavy rains Tuesday night into Wednesday morning caused severe flooding at several locations in Wantagh.
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8/13/14
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Freezing temperatures and icy road conditions took their toll on the Wantagh Parkway Tuesday morning. Snow accumulations and even lower temperatures made things only worse as the …
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1/21/14
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Orange sunlight slanted through the tree branches that hung over West Loines Avenue in Merrick, and the pungent-sweet smell of freshly cut grass and barbecued meat permeated the air as I bicycled east on this virtually empty street on a steamy Friday evening in late August.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/12/12
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A Bellmore man was killed in a car crash on the Wantagh Parkway on Saturday evening. Zachary Avanzato, 23, was driving a 1972 Chevrolet Impala westbound when his car slammed into a tree around 6:20 p.m., New York State Police said.
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By Deirdre Krasula
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10/17/11
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James Ryan, 45, of New Hyde Park will stand trial for the alleged drunken-driving crash that killed 19-year-old Matthew Scarpati of Dix Hills on the Wantagh State Parkway in the summer of 2009.
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By David Weingrad
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12/17/10
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The northbound lanes of the Wantagh Parkway will be closed between Jones Beach and Merrick Road until 7 p.m. on Nov. 18. New York State Parks Deputy Regional Director George Gorman said to expect intermittent closures on the southbound side for no more than 10 minutes at a time. The parkway is facing closures because of a movie that is being filmed there.
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11/18/10
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Gov. David Paterson gave the green light for the New York State Department of Transportation to install a guardrail along the Wantagh Parkway bike path at an Oct. 22 meeting with state Sen. Charles Fuschillo, Assemblyman David McDonough, and the family of Matthew Scarpati, who was killed on the path by an allegedly drunk motorcyclist this past summer.
The new guardrail will be what DOT spokeswoman Jennifer Post described as a "cable design," which will consist of three metal cables suspended by posts reaching about 33 inches high, spaced roughly 10 feet apart.
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by Sari Zeidler
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10/29/09
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