Before I even got to the end of your comment I went in to Sblog’s admin section and clicked on your IP address to see if we were being graced with a visit from The Reason Foundation or The Automobile Club of New York (not that I’d likely be able to tell from just an IP address, but still).

Extend the Sheridan north to the city line in order to provide relief for our other congested thoroughfares. The only traffic remedy is to build MORE highways.

The Bronx River is suitable for paving over. I support NYSDOT in also extending this route southward into the already-blighted Hunts Point.

P.S. — I really hope you all saw the sarcasm in that statement. I think the Sheridan is a good candidate for being torn down. It’s an incomplete highway that isn’t useful and it cuts the neighborhood off from the waterfront, in this case, the Bronx River.

When the Embarcadero Freeway in San Francisco was dismantled (shortly after the ’89 quake damaged it), just look at happened there. So much better nowadays.

I was driving on the Cross Bronx Expressway to New Jersey today and I was struck by how easy it would be to cap that heavily-trafficked road to help filter out the particulate matter emanating from the trucks that pass through every day. The neighborhoods could be re-connected quite easily.

Note that two of the six removed freeways on my site were built by Robert Moses – as, I believe, was the Sheridan.

That’s two down and what, twenty to go?

Note that two of the six removed freeways on my site were built by Robert Moses – as, I believe, was the Sheridan.