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Campaign: Better Truck Access to Hunts Point and A Better Quality of Life

The State Department of Transportation has been trying to make truck access to Hunts Point easier, and is now looking at two final options. One of these options removes the Sheridan Expressway and the other retains it, but both options create a new exit from the Bruckner into Hunts Point. The Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance is for Plan 1E, which builds the new ramps and removes the Sheridan because we feel that it will help truck traffic to Hunts Point and also help the community.

Coming from Environmental Justice

As the Alliance, we try to ensure that our actions are deeply rooted in the principles of environmental justice. We firmly believe that all people, especially all marginalized people, deserve the opportunity to be involved determining how our communities look. The areas that surround the Sheridan are mostly land-locked and the area that isn't, Hunts Point, with its 100,000 daily trucks, and fertilizer, water, and sewage treatment plants, is a prime example of environmental injustice. Our effort to provide housing, businesses, jobs, and open space on the Sheridan lands and to create access to the Bronx River echoes environmental justice's "need for urban and rural ecological policies to clean up and rebuild our cities and rural areas in balance with nature, honoring the cultural integrity of all our communities, and providing fair access for all to the full range of resources."

• What is the Sheridan Expressway?
• What is Plan 1E?
• What was the original Community Plan?

Learn more about the Community Plan

• Smart Growth and Sustainability: find out how the New Community on the Sheridan will be a state-of-the-art Green development.
• Transportation: see the NYSDOT's transportation analysis of the Sheridan-Bruckner Interchange, the projected transportation benefits of our plan, and our visions for public transportation in the area.
• Housing: one of the most important elements of the Community Plan is affordable housing.
• Parks and Open Space: open space, and access to open space, is fundamental to a healthy community and also has major health benefits.
• Jobs and Economic Development: the South Bronx needs to see more jobs and economic opportunities for the residents and communities of the South Bronx.