OCA Pedestrian Bridge for Van Cortlandt Park 2018
April 16th, 2018 Posted in CWTP, Front Page News, Projects, Van Cortlandt Park
Date: February 4, 2023
Well, five years have passed and the only thing new about the Old Croton Aqueduct Pedestrian Trail is that it now costs another $13 million to the grand total of $39 million. There is another alternative now being discussed. See the new update here at this link of the Jan 31, 2023 meeting of the Facilities Monitoring Committee.
Date: April 16, 2018
The cost for the Pedestrian Bridge in Van Cortlandt Park has more than doubled from the original estimate. The Pedestrian Bridge was in the original 1999 ULURP and Resolution. Although that agreement stated the study was to be completed by 2002, it was not until 2010 that the Facilities Monitoring Committee (FMC) was able to get the DEP to do the “Feasibility Study;” the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) argued that they did not have the funding (as we watched the increase cost of the plant from $1 billion to $4 billion or more. The Feasibility Study reviewed several sites and agreed that the idea was feasible. Not until 2014 did the DEP agreed to choose one of the sites, and provide $4 million. During this period of time, the cost of the Pedestrian Bridge increased.
Recently, it was presented at the Bronx Community Board 8 Parks Committee (VCP pedestrian bridge DDC presentation, March 2018) with another increase cost estimate. They also stated that the DEP determined that the foot print of the bridge would have to be built away from the New Croton Aqueduct to protect it from the construction blasting. (This is the opposite of the agency statement at the Jerome Park Reservoir project where DEP argued that blasting was needed in order to build a shaft underground. Attached is the shortened excerpted report part of the minor modification which show that two years of blasting was conducted within 50 feet of the Old Croton Aqueduct.)
Furthermore, the suggestion that the city remove the two gas stations (clearly two gas stations and two Dunkin Donuts are non-park uses) from both sides and using those footprints as the foot for the bridge was a serious suggestion. As the agency is considering new sites, it is only fair to add this new one.
Croton Aqueduct Pedestrian Bridge Petition
vcp_pedestrian_bridge_report_part_1
vcp_pedestrian_bridge_report_part_2
Mosholu Mitigation Res 993 of 1999
Excerpts from the JPR Minor Mod for the Ped Bridge 041118
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