Remember the last time an autocrat with way too much
power (Robert Moses) rammed through a plan to divide the Bronx with a freeway
to give wealthy suburbanites an easier time driving through (not to) the Bronx
on the way back and forth from their suburban homes. It was called the Cross
Bronx Expressway. It created endless health problems and destroyed Bronx
neighborhoods forever.
Now here we are in 2013. We have a Mayor with
tremendous power and he insists on creating a 1.5 mile asphalt bikeway right
through one of the last native forests of the Bronx in Van Cortlandt Park. (The
Mayor will also cut down 400 trees as part of his plan and spend $1 million NYC
taxpayer dollars). All of this so wealthy suburban cyclists will have an easier
time getting through the Bronx.
See
article below
Ask yourselves. How does a 15ft paved asphalt path help
the Bronx more than an 8ft stone dust pathway? It doesn’t.
Why is another project being forced on the Bronx which
the Bronx didn’t ask for?
Mayor Bloomberg’s actions are eerily reminiscent of
Robert Moses ill-conceived Cross Bronx Expressway. We all know how that one
turned out! Let’s not let history repeat itself.
Say no “to Bloomberg Boulevard” in Van Cortlandt Park!
Please write a note to Mayor Bloomberg saying no to
another ill-conceived project the Bronx doesn’t want! http://on.nyc.gov/3CDcV6
Please also write your City Council Rep asking them not
to destroy the Bronx using $1 million of your tax dollars! http://council.nyc.gov/html/
“Maybe
when you have billions you think you don’t have to listen to the millions”
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