1998 Excellence in Highway Design
Category 1 - The Urban Highway Award of Excellence
Long Island Expressway/Seaford-Oyster Bay Interchange
Oyster Bay, New York
Designer: Vollmer Associates LLP, New York City
Contractors: Hendrickson - Scalamandre - Posillico Joint Venture, Long Island
Input from nearby communities led to a reconstruction design that provided a combination of auxiliary lanes, altered ramp configurations, and enhanced crossroad and service road intersections. This design fully addressed the project objectives of improved traffic operations, increased safety, decreased congestion, and efficiently distributed traffic.