I’ve lived in Queens for 15 years and there has never been a moment when the Van Wyck Expressway has NOT been under construction. Funny, even on nice days you barely see any construction workers working. Ditto a bit closer to home; there is a street which includes a bridge over a park which has been under construction for like a year, horribly congesting traffic which depends on that stretch of road for access to 3 major highways. And what is the point of this latter construction? I couldn’t figure it out until quite recently, what with the barriers depriving us of lanes and the bumper to bumper chronic congestion. It seems that they have now permanently removed a much-needed car lane and widened the sidewalk across the bridge to about FIFTEEN FEET wide. Anyone reading this by now has dropped to the floor from freak-out, right? Moreover, in good ol’ DeBlASSio fashion, they have not painted the curb of this intrusion into the driving lanes with reflective paint so that if you are unfamiliar with the area, it would be quite easy to drive up onto the wide sidewalk at night, as the lanes and such are barely visible. Under DeBlASSio, we now also have the rightmost lanes on most major thoroughfares painted red and reserved exclusively for buses, forcing major congestion upon the 2 remaining lanes. If that were not enough, several left turn lanes in my area have now been eliminated; if you don’t approach the store you want by an entirely different route, you are forced to drive past the street where you used to simply be able to turn left and then hit the store, continue on without turning for several long blocks, and THEN execute a U-turn to approach the street you wanted to turn left on, and make a RIGHT turn. INSANE!!!!
Silly rabbit, you’re not supposed to drive anymore. Bad for the planet. You should walk or take public transportation regardless of weather or your physical condition. Hence, your selfish vehicular lane has been traded for friendly sidewalks and bike paths.
I feel your pain buddy. Only going to get worse.