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The Ocean Parkway is a long Parkway that traverses the length of the barrier Beach es immediately south of Long Island , New York . The Ocean Parkway begins at the southern terminus of the Meadowbrook State Parkway , intersects the south end of the Wantagh State Parkway , and ends just past the southern terminus of the Robert Moses Causeway . The parkway services a number of parks, including Jones Beach State Park and Captree State Park . It is designated '''New York State Reference Route 909D''', an unsigned Reference Route . It is one of the more unusual parkways of Long Island, with most of its exits not being to Freeway standards. For most of its length, it is similar to a divided highway with Right-in/right-out access, with right-only intersections forming most of the junctions and turnaround points for traffic coming from the opposite direction. There are three exceptions--the junction with the Wantagh State Parkway , which is a Traffic Circle , and the junctions with Robert Moses Causeway near Captree State Park and at Bay Parkway in Jones Beach State Park where it becomes Meadowbrook State Parkway , both of which are full Cloverleaf Interchange s. Because of its southern location, Ocean Parkway is one of the few parkways in the entire state whose entire length allows truck traffic, albeit for local deliveries only. This is because an exemption to the "No Trucks" regulation was made for any length of parkway that lies south of either Merrick Road or Montauk Highway (Nassau County Route 27A and New York State Route 27A ). There are no other truck routes south of this route, making the parkways the default route for deliveries to the beaches. Originally, there had been plans to extend the parkway to nearby Fire Island, and two attempts were made to authorize construction. However, residents resisted the plan: the first time for economic reasons, the second for environmental reasons. Eventually, park legislation in the 1960's blocked further plans to extend the parkway. EXIT LIST All exits are unnumbered. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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