New York City Commuters Face Delays for Cross Bronx Roadwork
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Commuters heading into New York City across the George Washington Bridge were delayed as much as an hour this morning because of construction work on the Cross Bronx Parkway Expressway that’s scheduled to continue into next week.
The New York State Department of Transportation has been doing repaving on the eastbound Cross Bronx Expressway between the George Washington Bridge and Jerome Avenue from 11 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. every day this week, closing two of four lanes between the bridge and the Major Deegan Expressway and two of three lanes between the Major Deegan and Jerome Avenue, according to a statement on the city’s Web site.
The work also forced closure of the George Washington Bridge’s eastbound lower level and the ramp from the northbound Henry Hudson Parkway to the eastbound Cross Bronx Expressway, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the bridge.
Last night, two eastbound lanes of the bridge’s upper level were also closed, along with the left lane of the ramp from the eastbound lower level to the Cross Bronx Expressway, the Port Authority said on its Web site. That caused delays of as much as an hour for traffic heading into New York, said Bernie Wagenblast, New York operations manager for Westwood One Inc.’s Metro Networks traffic service.
“It apparently ran later than it was scheduled,” Wagenblast said in a telephone interview. “Needless to say you just need one little thing to go wrong and traffic backs up across the bridge into New Jersey, and that’s what happened today.”
The additional closures are scheduled to take place tonight and Dec. 3 before a holiday construction embargo goes into effect, according to the Port Authority.
Adam Levine, a spokesman for the state Transportation Department, didn’t immediately return a telephone message left by Bloomberg News seeking further comment.
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