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Will the City build a upper level above the current highway for trucks ? Hey, my house is off the Cross Bronx, someone offer me sen figures using imminent domain, please.
They should dig a tunnel as an express bypass for I95, starting east of the Bruckner Interchange, going all the way under the Bronx, Manhattan and the Hudson, tying back into the main line of I95 just west of Ft. Lee, before the I95/I80 split. It would have no exits, I might make it trucks only. It would be to carry the interstate traffic around the bottlenecks in the city.
They should dig a tunnel as an express bypass for I95, starting east of the Bruckner Interchange, going all the way under the Bronx, Manhattan and the Hudson, tying back into the main line of I95 just west of Ft. Lee, before the I95/I80 split. It would have no exits, I might make it trucks only. It would be to carry the interstate traffic around the bottlenecks in the city.
Then they should sell the air rights over the top of the existing Cross Bronx,effectively burying it too and make the Bronx whole again. Air rights sales to developers and really huge tolls on the express tunnel for interstate traffic might pay for a lot of it.
They talked about a big dig in Brooklyn that would have sent a tunnel off the Gowanus straight underneath downtown and back out again near Flushing Ave. Would have been a good idea had it ever happened.
I traveled the Gowanus on a daily basis for 20 years and watched them rip up, repave and rip up the same stretch of road all the time. Why!?
The Gowanus is beyond its lifespan. They've been putting band-aids on it for the past 20 years because people can't agree on a replacement. If I remember correctly, the options are an elevated roadway right by the water, tearing the existing roadway down completely and putting it on street level, or building a tunnel.
I worked on the Gownaus briefly about 10 years ago. It's scary how deteoriated it is! I saw a piece of steel that was almost gone, all rusted away. It was maybe 2/3 the size of what it originally was! I also remember a piece of the concrete roadway falling and hitting a car underneath. It was all over the news...think it was summer 2004.
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