| Well, it's not exactly the Bruckner Interchange, but it's as close to spaghetti ramp excitement as you'll likely get on the ridiculous one-way Nassau in South Ozone Park, Queens. We're a couple of blocks west of Lefferts Blvd, looking north from South Conduit Blvd. These three vehicles are heading from Conduit to the eastbound Belt, but WAIT A MINUTE! Isn't the Belt a cars only Parkway? Yes. So what's this truck doing heading there? Just before one part of the ramp forks over to the Belt, another part pulls back again and remorphs into South Conduit. Well, if you think of the remaining service road that follows the Nassau faithfully until just before the Van Wyck, as also being South Conduit, then it's kind of like Conduit splitting into South Conduit 1 and South Conduit 2. It's kind of like having a South Conduit between the Nassau and the Belt and a Southier Conduit along the Nassau's southside. Ever see two highways fight over a service road before? I said earlier that the Nassau could be confusing. South Conduit is even more confusing and don't even get me started on North Conduit! The lower level of the overpasses carries the embryonic eastbound Nassau, which has just been hatched a little to the west, with South Conduit the mother hen that laid it. The top deck carries the eastbound Belt Pkwy exit leading into the eastbound Nassau. Still plenty of late 60's-early 70's vintage braced SLECO bigloops lining the Nassau and its appendages, although an equal amount have long since disappeared under the 18-wheels of various tractor trailers. Taken 10/99. |
