Before long-term traffic flow and safety concerns in the Bronx, New York, can be addressed, the New York State Department of Transportation is conducting a four-year $12 million Environmental Impact Study (EIS). ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ is managing the joint venture that is preparing the EIS and developing alternative preliminary designs with construction costs ranging from $100 million to $300 million.
The project’s focus is to relieve the traffic bottleneck at the Bruckner-Sheridan Expressways interchange and to improve access to the Hunts Point Peninsula. The Hunts Point Peninsula is where two of the world’s largest wholesale markets reside – the Hunts Point Meat Market and Hunts Point Produce Market, as well as the new Fulton Fish Market.
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s work includes extensive advanced transportation modeling to assess traffic movements on local streets and the regional highway network. The assessment process also involves interviewing a wide range of stakeholders at the market and throughout the the peninsula about ways to improve operations and the community’s quality of life by making local and regional infrastructure investments.