Last Friday morning, Misaskim attended a scheduled meeting with airport officials at Kennedy Airport to explore various ways of improving procedures for transporting a niftar to Israel and arranging levayos at the airport. At the meeting, officials notified Misaskim about an upcoming traffic-pattern change on the Belt Parkway and asked Misaskim to relay this information to the community. The new traffic pattern will impact the eastbound and westbound lanes on the Belt Parkway.
Current westbound traffic will be redirected to a temporary bridge over Fresh Creek and then back onto the current westbound lanes. Please note that lanes across the temporary bridge are only 10-feet wide leaving no shoulder on the road.
The current eastbound traffic will be redirected to the current westbound lanes just east of the Rockaway Parkway entrance ramp, continuing over the current westbound Fresh Creek Bridge and then back on the current eastbound lanes just west of the exit ramp for Pennsylvania Avenue.
Those traveling on the Belt Parkway should anticipate unpredictable and perhaps heavier travel conditions and should allow more time for travel. The new traffic pattern went fully into effect on March 8th and is expected to be in place for 18 months, if all goes according to schedule.
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I’d love to know whose pocket is getting filled…
The Belt Parkway has had work being done on it for YEARS already (and NOW they are saying another EIGHTEEN MONTHS) and I have yet to see that it is in any way better than it was before.
Kinda makes you wonder…
1. I am almost 44 and the Belt has been in a perpetual need of repair.
The 64K question here is: Does ANYONE know where “Fresh Creek” is? To me it sounds like a name of a creek that CANNOT be in NYC.
ainohd do u mean to say that some people are making a velt of gelt from the belt?
How about the northbound and southbound lanes, will those be affected as well?
This is part of a project to replace all of the Belt Parkway bridges that are aged with newer higher bridges. Anyone going to or from Flatbush or Marine Park should take Flatlands to Pennsylvania Ave to avoid these delays.
To: mark levine, if you really need to know where fresh creek is for your knowledge you could always look it up on google maps but this time that you asked I will provide you this very valuable information: between exit 13 (rockaway pkwy) and exit 14 (pennsylvania ave)
the belt will always be overcrowded as Bloomberg wants more and more illegals moving here which pushes the Americans further into LI thereby needing the Belt.
6. It is EXACTLY the way you gave you answer that I was such a bad talmid in Gemora. I couldn’t tolerate the questions and answers on the way to the final answer.
That being said, in a week I will thank you.
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I am over 70 and cannot remember a time when the was no construction work being done on the Belt.
I just figure that with wach changing administration somebody else’s brother-in-law needs the parnassah.
I got this off the NYCDOT website:
Belt Parkway over Fresh Creek Basin and Paerdegat Basin Bridges (between Flatbush Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue: One of three lanes in each direction may be closed 10am to 2pm and 10pm to 5am weekdays. Two of three lanes in each direction may be closed 1am to 5am weeknights. Closures are required to facilitate NYCDOT bridge reconstruction through October 2014. Note: As of 10am March 3, 2011 all three westbound lanes between Pennsylvania Avenue and Rockaway will shift onto a new temporary bridge over Fresh Creek and used for approximately 30 months.
Two differences:
It says Two of three lanes in each direction may be closed 1am to 5am weeknights.
It says 30 months, not 18 months.