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Highway Boondoggle: State DOT Already Planning Another Piece of Cross Bronx Expansion Project
The New York State Department of Transportation, which is already widening the Cross Bronx Expressway by building a service road over a park in the south Bronx, is now planning a second piece of the "Orwellian" project.
September 24, 2024
Boondoggle: State And Feds Are Dumping Yet Another Giant Highway on The Bronx
The state says the Cross Bronx Expressway needs to be repaired. But find out how Gov. Hochul is misusing federal infrastructure money to burden a neighborhood that has been dumped on for decades.
August 15, 2024
DOT Could Close Dangerous BQE Entrance at Atlantic Av.
The ramp is one of the worst-designed pieces of road infrastructure in the city.
June 20, 2024
Biden Administration to Let Hochul Dictate Congestion Pricing Next Steps, FHWA Says
President Biden may be providing legal cover for Gov. Hochul to avoid a lawsuit over her decision to scrub congestion pricing.
June 13, 2024
New York Pols Back Gounardes’s Bill to Cut Driving by 20%
From Buffalo to Brooklyn, lawmakers want less driving.
May 15, 2024
Environmental Groups Join to Fight Adams’s BQE Reconstruction
Rebuilding the Moses-era highway for another century is not environmental justice.
April 11, 2024
West Side Glory: State Begins the Process of Reimagining a True NYC Car Sewer
The state DOT will study the West Side Highway for "potential enhancements ... including [for] pedestrians and cyclists." West Side officials are cheering!
March 1, 2024
Getting the Green: Upstate Pol Wants to Unlock Highway Cash for Bike Paths
The proposal could mean a lot more green for New York City greenways.
January 23, 2024
Groups Call on Hochul to Stop City’s ‘Predetermined’ Plan to Keep BQE
"The existing process will only lead to billions of city and state taxpayer dollars spent to simply preserve the failed and dangerous BQE with a Band-Aid," the groups said.
December 18, 2023
Manhattan BP Wants To Raze FDR Drive South of Brooklyn Bridge
It's a great idea, but will highway-obsessed officials bite?
September 20, 2023
