| Issue 178 | June 26, 1998 |
Last week, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, Nos Quedamos, The Point Community Development Corporation and the Tri-State Campaign released a report recommending that the Bronx' Sheridan Expressway be dug up and replaced with a park.
The report argued that the never-finished Sheridan was redundant to other highways in the Bronx, and that a $250 million project to fix up the Bruckner-Sheridan interchange would throw good money after bad. Sheridan traffic volumes have fallen during the 1990s.
News organizations are flocking to the proposal. Bronx-net Cable News has already taped a segment, and most of the borough's community papers have pieces in the works. This week's Daily News coverage (headline: "Sheridan Expressway Hit as Useless") noted, "It's sort of the highway to nowhere."
The NY State Dept. of Transportation has not yet responded to a copy of the Campaign's Sheridan paper sent to it in early June, and DOT has refused to comment on the issue when contacted by reporters. The Campaign has requested that DOT investigate the Sheridan elimination scenario in the environmental review for the Bruckner/Sheridan interchange project.
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