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New York State Route 454 (NY 454), also known as the Suffolk County Veterans Memorial Highway or simply Vets Highway, is a 13.67-mile (22.00 km) east–west state highway in western and central Suffolk County on Long Island in New York. It spans from NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike) in Commack to NY 27 (Sunrise Highway) in Holbrook.
Until 1968, it was also part of Veterans Memorial Highway from Jericho Turnpike in Commack to Nesconset Highway in Hauppauge. The road shares a short concurrency with NY 111 in Hauppauge. An eastern extension to CR 16 was proposed at one time.
Rabro Drive in Hauppauge: NY 111: Serves Hauppauge Industrial Park and Suffolk County government buildings [3] CR 7: 1.75 2.82 CR 13: Wicks Road in Brentwood: CR 67: CR 8: I-495 / CR 101 in Yaphank: Yaphank Bypass CR 21 in Middle Island: Unbuilt route CR 9: 4.65 7.48 NY 25A in Huntington: Greenlawn Road & Cuba Hill Road CR 10 in Elwood
Most routes west of Port Jefferson and Patchogue are scheduled with 30 minute headways (60 minutes on routes 3, 10 and 15) during weekdays until at least 6:00 p.m. On all routes from Port Jefferson and Patchogue and to the east, including the north-south routes between those two terminals, there are 60-minute headways (except for 30-minute headways on routes 51 and 66).
Over one-third of the LIE within Suffolk County—a 15-mile (24 km) section from Melville to Veterans Memorial Highway (now NY 454) near Islandia—was opened to traffic between 1962 and 1963. [81] [87] A five-mile (8.0 km) extension of the LIE from Oyster Bay Road to NY 110 opened in August 1962, bringing the highway into Suffolk County.
In the 1970s, much of Simeon Woods Road was proposed by New York State to be upgraded to serve as a major spur highway, connecting the Long Island Expressway and the Smithtown Bypass (NY 347). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] However, these plans to turn Simeon Woods Road into a spur highway were eventually scrapped, and the NY 347 designation was instead ...
On June 9, 1965, the extension of the Northern State to Veterans Memorial Highway in Hauppauge opened to traffic, with the parkway's new eastern terminus being just northwest of the then-new Suffolk County government and police headquarters. The project cost $4 million and removed the automatic turns to the Sunken Meadow and Sagtikos.. [3]
The state acquired the Veterans Memorial Highway on March 29, 1972, placing both termini of NY 347 at state highways. [8] Originally, the state of New York had planned on building a spur between the Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495) and Smithtown Bypass. The location of the terminus was intended to be between exits 55 and 56, although ...