The New York State Department of Transportation is shifting from a wide temporary roadway for repairs on the Cross-Bronx Expressway to a smaller shared use path. Initially met with significant opposition from community leaders, the previous proposal for a massive connector road was criticized as a guise for highway widening. The updated plan features a pedestrian and cyclist path along the south side of the expressway, aimed at providing east-west connectivity without adding another road for highway traffic. Activists express cautious optimism about these changes.
Our stance is against putting another roadway up, so we're glad there's another option, said Daniel Ranells, deputy director of programs for the Bronx River Alliance.
The shared use path would be much smaller than the proposed connector road, more like a pedestrian and cyclist path on a bridge than than the highway-sized idea that state first pitched.
After the initial backlash to the project, state DOT offered up some other configurations of the connector road, including a bike and pedestrian-only version of the road, but activists still worried about the large steel-and-concrete structure.
The new shared use path next to the Cross Bronx would be an alternative to the massive 'connector road' when state DOT knocks down and rebuilds five elevated sections of the aging highway.
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