NYC Roads

[ixnay]

This is probably a typo made by somebody while they helped with the sign. It seems like something they could just fix after they make a new one.

I mean have any AARoadsters seen the Jackie typo in person?

[D-Dey65]

Hey, I don't know whether or not this question was asked before, but there seems to be a stub leading to Amboy Road in the Richmond Valley section of Staten Island near the Staten Island Railway station. What's that for? An unbuilt south-to-west ramp between Richmond Valley Road and Amboy? A connecting ramp from the never built southern extension of the West Shore Expressway? An old segment of Amboy Road itself?
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.5192157,-74.2280019,220m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

[NJRoadfan]

Judging by topos and the utility poles, it was part of Amboy Rd. before the Richmond Valley Rd. overpass over the SIRR was built.

[Mergingtraffic]

I'm amazed at how some recent sign replacements have replaced signs that have only been up for 20 years yet, some are still forgotten.  I'm not really complaining but it just amazes me.

[roadman65]

Does anyone know why Woodrow Road under NY 440 is built so wide?
https://goo.gl/maps/uPEs2PFsKEDDzvjj6
It’s only a turn around for the freeway service roads and is a one way street.  Was there a plan at one time to connect the two segments of Woodrow Road and also extend it west to Arthur Kill Road?

That would explain only the need to have a NB slip ramp from NY 440 to its service road at Exit 3 that really needs to be an on ramp to be opposite Exit 3A for Englewood Avenue on the SB side. As if that scenario were true more ramps at Woodrow Road would have been added  as part of whatever was planned.

[SignBridge]

Undoubtedly built that way for some form of future expansion possibly not finalized at the time of construction. In my area on Long Island we have a similar situation with an underpass built in 1956 on a narrow state road, wide enough to accommodate a divided highway if the road was ever widened which it never was. And a similar one on the intersecting state parkway that was built circa 1973 for future widening also which was never done, but might still be some day.

[Alps]

Undoubtedly built that way for some form of future expansion possibly not finalized at the time of construction. In my area on Long Island we have a similar situation with an underpass built in 1956 on a narrow state road, wide enough to accommodate a divided highway if the road was ever widened which it never was. And a similar one on the intersecting state parkway that was built circa 1973 for future widening also which was never done, but might still be some day.

do plz point us to this

[SignBridge]

Undoubtedly built that way for some form of future expansion possibly not finalized at the time of construction. In my area on Long Island we have a similar situation with an underpass built in 1956 on a narrow state road, wide enough to accommodate a divided highway if the road was ever widened which it never was. And a similar one on the intersecting state parkway that was built circa 1973 for future widening also which was never done, but might still be some day.

do plz point us to this

Both locations are on the Uniondale/East Meadow border. NY 102 (Front St) under the Meadowbrook State Pkwy bridge. And just north of there, Meadowbrook Pkwy. northbound side at the Glenn Curtiss Blvd. bridge. (First bridge south of NY 24, Hempstead Tpk) That one was built possibly to accommodate a collector-distributor road which was built north of NY 24) but not south of it.

[Ted$8roadFan]

NYT Metro Columnist on the BQE:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjBmL_tyN__AhUzkokEHVlZB6wQwoQHKAB6BAgkEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F06%2F23%2Fnyregion%2Fbrooklyn-queens-expressway-repair.html&usg=AOvVaw34QEJQA0zBh-pBpez_liBY&opi=89978449

[The Ghostbuster]

I wonder if anything will ever be done to fully reconstruct the BQE. I have the feeling a repeat of what happened to Manhattan's West Side Highway in 1973 will occur before anything serious comes to fruition.

[Plutonic Panda]

I wonder if anything will ever be done to fully reconstruct the BQE. I have the feeling a repeat of what happened to Manhattan's West Side Highway in 1973 will occur before anything serious comes to fruition.

Any deaths as a result of a collapse are due to the leaders who knew about this and decided to do nothing. That blood will be on their hands and its murder. They should be tried for it god forbid anything bad happens.

[SignBridge]

I wonder if anything will ever be done to fully reconstruct the BQE. I have the feeling a repeat of what happened to Manhattan's West Side Highway in 1973 will occur before anything serious comes to fruition.

Any deaths as a result of a collapse are due to the leaders who knew about this and decided to do nothing. That blood will be on their hands and its murder. They should be tried for it god forbid anything bad happens.

Can someone refresh me on what happened to the West Side Hwy. in 1973? I should remember but for some reason I don't.

[The Ghostbuster]

Here is Wikipedia's article on the West Side Highway's collapse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Highway#1973_collapse. Here is another article from NYCROADS:  http://www.nycroads.com/roads/west-side/.

[mariethefoxy]

I wonder if anything will ever be done to fully reconstruct the BQE. I have the feeling a repeat of what happened to Manhattan's West Side Highway in 1973 will occur before anything serious comes to fruition.

Any deaths as a result of a collapse are due to the leaders who knew about this and decided to do nothing. That blood will be on their hands and its murder. They should be tried for it god forbid anything bad happens.

Can someone refresh me on what happened to the West Side Hwy. in 1973? I should remember but for some reason I don't.

To summarize, the roadway was from the late 20s and not maintained very well at all, one day a pavement truck was driving on the roadway to make repairs and a portion of the roadway collapsed with the truck driving on it. 

[Mergingtraffic]

You know what I've never seen? And I-78 stand alone shield or trailblazer in NYC.  Of course it's The Holland Tunnel but still you'd think there'd be some.  I see I-87 shields even tho everyone says the Deegan.

[roadman65]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9TIO0LAaoU
This is totally absurd.

[74/171FAN]

In the meantime, NJ has announced a lawsuit in regard to the congestion pricing plan.  (https://abc7ny.com/amp/new-jersey-congestion-pricing-lawsuit-federal-highway-administration/13529620/)

[Mergingtraffic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9TIO0LAaoU
This is totally absurd.

Staten Island is following NJ I believe.
The reporter was named Robert Moses. Lol

I’m surprised I haven’t seen Chuck Schumer talk about this. He’s on cam for everything else.

Where’s the opposition from Manhattan residents or Bronx residents, the EIS said Bronx would get more traffic.

The MTA should look inward as they will never have enough money. I’d pay a toll if it’ll reshape some of NYCs expressway interchanges but not the “always broke” MTA

[roadman65]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9TIO0LAaoU
This is totally absurd.

Staten Island is following NJ I believe.
The reporter was named Robert Moses. Lol

I'm surprised I haven't seen Chuck Schumer talk about this. He's on cam for everything else.

Where's the opposition from Manhattan residents or Bronx residents, the EIS said Bronx would get more traffic.

The MTA should look inward as they will never have enough money. I'd pay a toll if it'll reshape some of NYCs expressway interchanges but not the "always broke"  MTA

The media is only going to cover what they want as they are a business to please advertisers who pay their salaries. I'm sure Chuck has talked, but Faux and CNN both just don't want to air it so that they both can indirectly support this nonsense the MTA is trying to push.

[The Ghostbuster]

Personally, I would have preferred that the congestion pricing plan would have had the tolls collected go to maintaining New York City's roads, rather than have funding transit.

[Alps]

First gantry: West End Ave heading south from 61st St. There's gonna have to be a gantry on every single avenue at 61st... and what the HECK are they gonna do south of there with all the interchanges along FDR and all the side streets along West St?

[SignBridge]

Funny about the reporter actually having the name Robert Moses.

I'm puzzled why there seem to be cameras over both halves of the divided roadway. I assumed drivers would only have to pay the toll when entering the congestion zone. Will they actually be tolled when leaving the area too?

Also: what about those who live in the congestion zone? Will they have to pay to drive into the neighborhood where they live?

[Plutonic Panda]

That sucks. I hope this project is stopped but I'm not holding my breath. It'd be nice. Be even nicer to see congestion pricing federally banned unless 100% of revenue goes to improving streets. I could at least get on board if the money went to streets and not mass transit.

[LilianaUwU]

Cringe.

[Plutonic Panda]

Cringe.

Care to elaborate?