N.Y. Must Construct Southern Metro Regional Bypass

Twin the OuterBridge, with a pair of 4 lane spans.

 

Widen 440 to minimum of 8 lanes, with reconstructed Charleston/Pleasant Plains interchange.

 

Widen existing I-278 Staten Island Expressway with new outboard roadways within cut and cover tunnel segments, with decking in key spots.

 

Construct a pair of 2 or 3 lane underwater tunnels flanking the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge (more effective than direct New Jersey to Brooklyn link).

Add 3 lanes in each direction to VNB Brooklyn approach, and deck over existing trench expressway.

 

Construct east-west link through south central Brooklyn to reconstructed JFK Airport area Belt corridor, with cut and cover tunnel segments along Sunrise Highway to make a continuous traffic light free expressway to the existing expressway at Amityville.

Brooklyn segment to be cut and cover enclosed tunnel expressway via the Bay Ridge L.I.R.R. corridor and Linden Boulevard to Conduit Avenue, with cut and cover spur to the north to a new underwater tunnel to Hunts Point.  (Would be constructed together with a Quad-borough IRT, which is the proposed Bay Ridge LIRR BiBorough, with extensions to Staten Island and the Bronx).  Would create new grand linear park arcing across Brooklyn and up through Queens.

Belt corridor to be reconstructed with added expressway cut and cover tunnels up to vicinity of Belmont Park, with Hempstead Avenue-212th Place cut and cover tunnel to existing end of Clearview Expressway.   Would create grand new linear park across southern & the outer edge of Queens.

Route 135 is expanded and extended to Westchester County I-287.  Make the shore area as enclosed tunnel, with a 1,000 foot minimum enclosed segment off shore, with a pair of spans to cross over the Long Island Sound.