This week, the New York State Department of Transportation held its second hearing on a project to connect the Bronx River Parkway to the Sheridan Expressway via a new elevated highway ramp. The NYS DOT claims that the ramp will reduce congestion and traffic now caused by a traffic light through which traffic seeking to move from one highway to the other.

Community residents were quick to offer their perspective that the ramp would provide more capacity for cars using the Bronx as a conduit between the northern suburbs and Manhattan. NYS DOT projections showed that the link would see heavy use.

A spokesperson for Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, an organization based in the community that would host the new elevated structure, refuted assertions by the Department that an overhead viaduct was a better neighbor than at-grade traffic. Mid-Bronx Desperadoes, a community development group, questioned DOT's level of economic analysis, since the Department was unaware of its plans to build a shopping center two blocks from the Sheridan,

The Bronx Borough President's Office hosted the meeting, but had no comment on the elevated highway structure that would be built within 100 yards of more than 100 apartments.