Manhattan’s Community Board 12 (CB12) held its monthly Traffic & Transportation meeting on March 2 by Zoom. Several members of the Viaduct Rescue Project attended, as well as many other affected residents. A DOT representative was also present. CB12 members called DOT to account for the viaduct work stoppage and unsafe conditions, and a Project member was able to speak on the record, clearing stating (once again) the outrageous and unsafe situation that has gone on for years.
DOT’s answers were entirely unacceptable, and, in fact, absurd. Affected residents have been in contact with DOT over several years about the viaduct. There have been phone calls and emails. Yet the representative at the meeting was “surprised” to hear of the conditions around the viaduct. He was “unaware” of residential buildings cut off from the street and emergency services.
And best of all, he offered to do a site visit to see if anything could be improved — in a few months, “when the weather gets warmer.”
Once again DOT offers Washington Heights what it always has:
Nothing.