The Southern State Parkway on Long Island, New York, links the Belt Parkway in New York City with the Heckscher State Parkway in Bay Shore, New York. The parkway runs east-west, as it goes through Belmont State Park and Republic Airport, and has its western terminus at the Nassau-Queens border. The parkway provides six lanes of traffic most of the way, with eight lanes of traffic between the western terminus and Eagle Avenue in West Hempstead, New York.
The Parkway is heavily associated with the commuter and suburban culture of Long Island, and services communities along the southern half of the Island. It has a "twin" -- the Northern State Parkway -- which runs roughly parallel, approximately 7 miles to the north, but is less heavily traveled. Both of these roads, along with other parkways in the system, prohibit trucks and other large commercial vehicles. Additionally, they are truly "parkways" as compared to other limited access freeways, as they are surrounded by a belt of greenery on either side, and there are no billboards or other commercial intrusions, lending them a bucolically aesthetic quality.
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