"You're tying [the neighborhoods] together for motorists in the neighborhood. We're not connecting people to be able to walk to the corner store. You're connecting people to be able to drive from West Farms to the mall in Co-op City," one Bronx activist said nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/09/24/c...

Highway Boondoggle: State DOT Already Planning Another Piece of Cross Bronx Expansion Project - Streetsblog New York City

The state Department of Transportation, which is already widening the Cross Bronx Expressway by building a service road over a park, is now planning a second piece of the "Orwellian" project.

NYSDOT is also really acting like this isn't a highway expansion, to the point where the only time "induced demand" comes up is in the context of the bus lane that has no actual bus service nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/09/24/c...