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Posted by Hank Eisenstein on Wed Aug 3 15:57:31 2011, in response to Re: Signage and Customer Service, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:40:32 2011. Tourists usually get their directions ahead of time; they don't care what the name of the highway they're already driving on is; they want to know the exit number where they need to get off the highway and reach their destination. First-time users are generally familiar with the areas they're traveling in; I know my way around NYC highways because I was a passenger for 18+ years before I was ever a driver.The parkway you refer to isn't even technically the 'Belt Parkway'; it's a system of parkways, including the Cross Island, built as the Belt Parkway System, designed to connect the city to the actual parks in Long Island. There are THREE parkways that are continuous, with consecutively numbered exits and referred to colloquially as the Belt Parkway; the Shore Parkway from the Gowanus to Cross Bay Blvd; Southern Parkway from Cross Bay Blvd to Sunrise Highway; and the Laurelton Parkway from Sunrise Highway to the Southern State. The Cross Island is part of the 'Belt Parkway System'. No one needs, and few care, to know that the highway they're currently traveling on has changed names if the exit numbers don't reset. Even though the Gowanus runs generally generally westbound from the Prospect to the Battery Tunnel, I278 is an interstate route that primarily travels northeast-southwest through the city; and would actually make more sense if it were signed north-south instead. |
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