Remove, Modify, Retain ??
Hunts Point to Westchester Ave section
Westchester ave to Cross Bronx Expressway
Cross Bronx Expressway to West Farms Road
Facts:
-In 1941, the New York City Planning Department proposed a short expressway spur connecting the "Bronx Crosstown Highway" (Cross Bronx Expressway) to the north with the "Southern Boulevard Express Highway" (Bruckner Expressway) to the south
-Four years later, when he developed the city's postwar arterial development program, New York City arterial coordinator Robert Moses proposed a "Bronx River Expressway" along roughly the same route. The proposed expressway was renamed after Arthur V. Sheridan, the chief engineer of Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons and a staunch ally of Moses who was killed in an automobile accident, in 1956.
-Construction of the Sheridan Expressway began in 1958 as part of the elevated Bruckner Expressway project. The 1.2-mile-long Sheridan Expressway was constructed with two 12-foot-wide lanes in each direction, but like other early-Interstate era expressways in New York City, had inadequate shoulders and short acceleration-deceleration lanes. In February 1963, the $9.5 million expressway was opened to traffic.
- In 1998, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) announced a long-range safety and operational improvement plan to better serve the approximately 45,000 vehicles that use the expressway each day. The multi-year project, which began in 2001, included the following improvements: pavement and bridge rehabilitation along the entire length of the expressway rehabilitation of interchanges - including operational, geometric and safety improvements - with the Bruckner Expressway (I-278) and the Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95) The $200 million Sheridan Expressway reconstruction project was completed in 2005. During reconstruction, roadway capacity is being reduced to one lane in each direction.
My View:
while i see the community uses it as a short cut to get from one place to another, it has been a huge burden to the communication and to the accessibly of the Bronx river. I know that if it is removed we will have a cleaner environment and some of the pollution we currently deal with will no longer exist. Some people have argued that access to a high way from areas like soundview would take longer but in reality there are to many that are in communities that have existing issues. The fact of the matter is that our people need to stop relying on highways and cars to get to places where there is an existing transportation system.
Removal would work perfectly for the Westchester to West Farms area meanwhile modify would work for the Hunts Point area to Westchester area. Retention should not be an option for a community that can be better served with better amenities such as housing and businesses and access.
Sheridan Visioning -----> http://vimeo.com/34649467
Extended interview -----------> http://vimeo.com/31414967
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