Three years later, the ramshackle overpass is falling apart again, just in time for the busy summer season:<\/p>\n
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The Fort Washington Park Bridge is once again in bad shape. Photo obtained by Streetsblog<\/p>\n
Parks and DOT are planning \u201cimmediate\u201d repairs to the planks, Parks spokesperson Kelsey Jean-Baptiste told Streetsblog after a reporter forwarded recent images of the disrepair.<\/p>\n
Design for the full replacement is \u201cunderway,\u201d Parks rep Jean-Baptiste added, saying that the city would publish a timeline when it \u201cbecome[s] available,\u201d noting that \u201cresponsibilities may shift\u201d as a project moves from design to planning and construction.<\/p>\n
The agencies tossed out the previous design<\/a> that was originally supposed to be done by 2015 because it \u201cpresented significant challenges for construction,\u201d Jean-Baptiste said. The Park Department\u2019s public project tracker<\/a> shows it at 0 percent complete.<\/p>\n For comparison, the 19th century Brooklyn Bridge took 14 years<\/a> to construct. <\/p>\n The city has had to take the bridge out of commission<\/a> in the past as its timber flooring dangerously decayed. And during its greenway repairs, the agency often sends cyclists onto dangerous detours<\/a> through neighborhood streets without safe cycling infrastructure. <\/p>\n Greenways double as recreational and transportation corridors<\/a>, but successive city administrations have treated them as little more than afterthoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n In northern Manhattan alone, Parks has had to close off several parts of the Hudson River greenway in recent years due to disrepair \u2013 sometimes sections several at the same time \u2013 including Cherry Walk<\/a> and the section that runs alongside<\/a> the Henry Hudson Parkway north of the George Washington Bridge. <\/p>\n Uptown \u2018neglect\u2019<\/p>\n The constant dysfunction of the city\u2019s uptown greenways has prompted advocates with Transportation Alternatives to launch a campaign this month calling on the city invest the resources needed for lasting fixes, so the Hudson River Greenway is as good uptown as it is downtown, where the paths are among the best in the world.<\/p>\n \u201c[It\u2019s] the neglected little brother to the other portions of the greenway south of 96th,\u201d said the group\u2019s uptown and Bronx organizer Anna Berlanga, adding that some portions are downright \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n Mayor Mamdani must make good on his promise to make government work for people<\/a> by repairing the sections and provide actually offering safe reroutes during construction, Berlanga said. <\/p>\n The city should also take a look at connecting a nearby existing path to nowhere<\/a> stretching south from Dyckman Street along the waterfront before looping back just north of 187th Street, and link it up to the waterfront path at the Little Red Lighthouse. <\/p>\n The problems stem from the city chronically underfunding its Parks agency, Berlanga said. <\/p>\n \u201cWe want to be partners with New York City Parks and we want to make sure they have the tools aka money to be able to deliver high quality service to the people uptown,\u201d Berlanga told Streetsblog. <\/p>\n Mamdani recently earmarked $96 million for new greenway construction<\/a> over five years, a drop in the bucket, but Hizzoner also needs to figure out how to speed up the projects (another greenway just wrapped up on Third Avenue after a stunning 14-year<\/a> construction) and properly maintain existing legs of the network. <\/p>\n \u201cI wish that Mamdani would go after whatever this broken process is with gusto,\u201d LeGrande said. <\/p>\n Transportation Alternatives will launch its Fort Washington Greenway campaign on Friday, July 10 at 5:30 p.m., at the Little Red Lighthouse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These bridge repairs are nearly old enough to vote! The city still has no schedule to replace a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-283501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}