The yellow dividing lines on Cedar Drive between Myrtle Drive and Bayview Avenue are badly faded, with little to no separation between lanes on some stretches of the road.
But next week that will begin to change, according to Nassau County Department of Public Works spokesman Mike Martino.
Martino wrote in an e-mail that, 18 months after Great Neck Chief of Police John Garbedian first alerted the county to the issue, work will begin the week of June 17.
Garbedian sent a request to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano asking for an update on the project in May, a year and a half after he first requested that Nassau’s Department of Public Works repaint the marking to fix what he has described as a “dangerous road condition.”
“I had received numerous complaints from motorists and my Village Board in regard to missing center-line roadway markings on the Nassau County portion of Cedar Drive, between Myrtle Drive and Bayview Avenue, in the Village of Great Neck Estates,” wrote Garbedian to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano in a May 22 letter. “In the interim these roadway markings are now mostly absent for most portions of this roadway between Middle Neck Road and Bayview Avenue. This issue arose again at the last Village Meeting and I have been asked to report on when this dangerous condition will be corrected.”
Garbedian’s follow-up letter came 18 months after he first reported the issue to the county, and more than a year after Mangano told the village that the county had begun to address the issue.
“In response [to Garbedian’s initial November 2011 letter,] this office has prepared a work order to refurbish the center yellow lines, as needed,” Mangano wrote to Garbedian in March 2012. “This work will be completed as weather conditions improve and our workload permits.”
Martino wrote that the work had been scheduled for the upcoming week for some time.
As of a village board meeting on June 10 Garbedian said he had not received another response from the county.
Garbedian’s first reported the problem to county Department of Public Works Commissioner Sheila Shah-Gavnoudias in November 2011, describing a “totally obliterated” yellow line between Myrtle Drive and Bayview Avenue and requesting that the markings be repainted.
