Cross Bronx Expressway
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To-Do List: Congestion Pricing Must Mitigate Added Bronx Trucks, Pols Say
Congestion pricing would send more trucks through The Bronx, which is not good.
August 15, 2022
DOT Announces Multi-Agency Study to ‘Reimagine’ the Cross Bronx Expressway
The goals? Improve quality of life for residents, create new public open space, improve safety on local streets and along the corridor, more sustainably manage cross-Bronx traffic.
May 31, 2022
Boogie Down Biden: Pols, City DOT Hail Fed Funds for Capping the Cross Bronx Expressway
Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Ritchie Torres and DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman hailed the $1.2-trillion federal infrastructure bill for creating a $1-billion "Reconnecting Communities" pilot to "study ... removing, retro-fitting, or mitigating" highways that hurt "community connectivity, mobility, access, or economic development."
November 9, 2021
OPINION: The Time To Cap the Cross Bronx Is Now
President Biden's infrastructure bill creates an opening for rectifying a deadly historical wrong.
April 23, 2021