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I still for the life of me am trying to figure out how Robert Moses came up with half of these routes in the Bronx, Westchester, Queens, and Long Island. Half of them are circuitous and make no sense. Wish most of them would go, but unfortunately the worst offender (the Cross-Bronx) is the most vital, so we're stuck. But seriously, the Sheridan serves essentially no value but we're maintaining it anyway.
It would definitely be nice to see some of these redundant highways that Moses created removed and replaced with new development and new subway lines to replace them. If there is one thing that would make the biggest impact it would be something like this.
I am always for tearing down highways, especially redundant ones, and returning the land back to the neighborhoods.
It would definitely be nice to see some of these redundant highways that Moses created removed and replaced with new development and new subway lines to replace them. If there is one thing that would make the biggest impact it would be something like this.
I am always for tearing down highways, especially redundant ones, and returning the land back to the neighborhoods.
The good thing is that you'd already have a trench in most cases to just lay tracks in and over cover, cuts down on costs significantly.
The bronx river is not the cross bronx. Most of the route is in bronx park. At worse have it end at the cross bronx since soundview was split in half to build it
The Sheridan doesn't go anywhere and it creates problems on the Bruckner. I have no problem getting rid of that, especially if they use it as an opportunity to straighten out the kinks in the Bruckner.
The BRP, OTOH, it goes someplace and is useful. And once it gets north of the Sprain split, it's tight, twisty, and downright fun. So, no, that they can't get rid of that. In point of fact, they need to build ramps directly from the Bruckner to the BRP, without having to go down onto Bruckner Blvd.
They just finished turning the expressway into a boulevard last week, and it's looks just like Queens Blvd. I was surprised they made the speed limit 30mph instead of the usual 25, but I wouldn't be surprised if they lower it in a few months, or whenever the inevitable pedestrian death occurs on the street.
The Sheridan doesn't go anywhere and it creates problems on the Bruckner. I have no problem getting rid of that, especially if they use it as an opportunity to straighten out the kinks in the Bruckner.
The BRP, OTOH, it goes someplace and is useful. And once it gets north of the Sprain split, it's tight, twisty, and downright fun. So, no, that they can't get rid of that. In point of fact, they need to build ramps directly from the Bruckner to the BRP, without having to go down onto Bruckner Blvd.
Oh yeah. This. That interchange, to get on the BRP coming off the Throgs Neck Bridge, using Rosedale Ave . . . misery.
The BRP is a critical road. There are miles and miles of co-op buildings that are built along that road. And to load up the Hutch with the extra traffic would be cruel and unusual, even for NYC, which pretty much DEFINES cruel and unusual.
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