Sagtikos State Parkway
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The Sagtikos State Parkway is a 4.9 mile north-south limited-access parkway on Long Island New York and part of New York State Reference Route 908K--the Sunken Meadow State Parkway is the other part. Since the highway is part of the New York State Parkway System, commercial vehicles are restricted from using it at all. As with many parkways in the Tri-State area, the Sagtikos is substandard, having no shoulders, tightly curved ramps, and a lack of adequate acceleration/deceleration lanes.
Aside from being a part of the New York State Highway System, it's also a Long Island Parkway, and, thus, carries the white-on-black Long Island parkway shield. The parkway was opened in September, 1952 at a cost of $8 million and closed the highway loop on Long Island. At its southern end, the Sagtikos meets the Southern State Parkway several 1/2 mile from the Robert Moses Causeway interchange. At its northern terminus, the Sagtikos becomes the Sunken Meadow State Parkway at the Northern State Parkway interchange.
[edit] Exits
| Exit # | Destinations | Notes |
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| This list, from top to bottom, goes south. For northbound exits, read from the bottom up. JCT |
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| S1 W-E |  Long Island Expressway |
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| S2 | G Street | A northbound exit. TO Suffolk County Roads  13 and  106. |
| S3 | Pine Aire Drive | |
JCT  Southern State Pkwy WEST/ Heckscher State Pkwy EAST. |
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[edit] Interesting facts
- The interchange with Northern State Parkway and Sunken Meadow State Parkway was built where a widened and curved median used to be. A Parkway service area was in the median at the terminus of Sagtikos State Parkway and the former terminus of Northern State Parkway.
- Exit S1 northbound was originally Suffolk CR 67(Long Island Motor Parkway), until it was replaced by the Long Island Expressway. It had a northbound off-ramp, a northbound on-ramp and a southbound on-ramp located next to the underpass. Only the northbound on-ramp remains active.
- Exit S1 Southbound was originally Suffolk CR 13 (Crooked Hill Road) at Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center, until it was closed due to its close proximity to the east-to-south ramp from the Long Island Expressway. Only the southbound on-ramp remains active.
[edit] External links
- Sagtikos Parkway Article from NYCROADS Web Site
- Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center Map(with Exit S2 and Southbound Exit S1 Interchange (Long Island Oddities Website)
- Interchange of the Week; Monday, March 19, 2001 (Empire State Roads)
| Parkways of Long Island, New York | |
| East-west | Northern - Southern - Heckscher - Bay - Ocean - Long Island Motor Parkway |
| North-south | Meadowbrook - Loop - Wantagh - Bethpage - Robert Moses - Sagtikos - Sunken Meadow |
| Formerly proposed | Caumsett - Sound Shore - Wildwood - Smith Point - Ponoquogue |
