The Nassau Off Road Experience

Nassau County was at the forefront of developing roads. The first modern parkways, the Northern State and Southern State, wound their way through Nassau on the way to the beach. Our infrastructure, much of it maintained by the county, was one of the things that made the county a business friendly environment.

Then came Tom Suozzi. Suozzi has systemically underfunded County roadway repair. Roads, once spotless and flawlessly paved, now are falling apart and cracked. Giant potholes line the medians. And the county, the entity responsible for maintianing these roads, has done nothing to

The costs of poorly maintained roads are enormous. Delays and increased traffic as cars slow down to avoid the obstacle. Increased risks of accidents as cars seeing an obstacle slow down and try to evade it. Increased repair costs when, due to lack of basic maintnance, a road's condition collapses and requires a total repaving. Increased maintnance bills as cars and tires are damaged by contact with potholes.

It's not an issue that grabs press. It's nothing that will get you on the cover of Newsday, the NY Times or on the evening news. Therefore, Tom Suozzi, who has a driver and county car complete with a siren has ignored it.

While Suozzi doesn't care, this is something that matters to every person who lives and does business in Nassau. Our time is one of our most valuable commodities. Yet we waste it in the repair shop to fix the damage from a pothole or sitting in traffic on a county road as drivers slow down to avoid the potholes or crews labor to fix something that lack of maintnance has turned from a minor repair job into a complete makeover. But the current adminsitration doesn't car.

Pomp and circumstance and press release do little good for an average taxpayer sitting in traffic or the repair shop. It's time that we have a county executive who pays attention to the little things. We need a government that cares about the people's concerns. That cares about our day to day lives and concerns. That is why we need to elect Mangano to save Nassau.