Cross Bronx Expressway

The Cross Bronx Expressway ( German literally cross Bronx Expressway ) is the designation for a 6.5 miles ( 10.46 km ) long highway section in New York City, which runs in east-west direction through the southern Bronx. The opening took place 1955-1963 in sections.

The highway begins at the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River, then travels in an easterly direction at about the level of 175th Street to the Bronx River in a south-southeast direction and then on to the Hutchinson River where it meets the Bruckner Expressway. He then proceeds in a southeasterly direction on through Throgs Neck and strikes at the foot of the Throgs Neck Bridge to the Throgs Neck Expressway.

The Cross Bronx Expressway is a very important road link in the New York metropolitan area. Between the Harlem River and the Hutchinson River, it is part of Interstate 95, the main north -south road link on the east coast; same time it is part of the motorway connection between Queens and Long Iceland to New Jersey, bypassing Manhattan. The traffic load is correspondingly very high.

The construction and especially the route of the highway has always been considered controversial. Critics say little regard for the social structures of the affected residential areas had been taken in the planning. The motorway is in many places, in fact, not between the existing city neighborhoods, but right through them and not focus on the existing road network. Since the decline of the South Bronx in particular after the completion of the expressway accelerated noticeably, made ​​their existence of this phenomenon partly responsible.