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Vision? Zero: Tragedy Underscores Shortcomings of Efforts to Make Ocean Parkway Safer
Road violence on Ocean Parkway is at its highest levels of the Vision Zero era — and despite millions of dollars of state safety improvements.
April 4, 2025
Cross-Bronx Cap ‘Potentially Feasible’ — But Expensive: Report
Here's a plan for a highway that isn't a scar. Now all we need is the money.
March 11, 2025
State Now Considering Car-Free Connector Next To Cross-Bronx Expwy Instead of Covert Highway
Perhaps all of the local outrage over building a parallel highway to the Cross Bronx is working?
November 5, 2024
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
In case you couldn't be more angry at Gov. Hochul, now she wants to build a new highway through the Bronx, whose very history is one of awful highways.
August 15, 2024
Friday’s Headlines: The Incredible Shrinking Governor Edition
Honey, she shrunk herself. Plus other news.
August 9, 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
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
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
