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The Throgs Neck Bridge had carried 16.4 million vehicles by the end of the year, and the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge recorded a corresponding 40% decline in traffic in 1961. [62] The Throgs Neck Bridge was originally designated as part of I-78, which extended south to Hillside Avenue , the southern terminus of the Clearview Expressway.
The Cross Island Parkway runs 10.6 miles (17.1 km) from the Whitestone Expressway (Interstate 678 or I-678) in Whitestone past the Throgs Neck Bridge, along and across the border of Queens and Nassau County to meet up with the Southern State Parkway, acting as a sort of separation point which designates the limits of New York City.
After the Throgs Neck Bridge opened in 1961, the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge recorded a corresponding 40% decline in traffic; [120] according to a TBTA executive, traffic on the bridge ultimately decreased by more than half. [121] Soon afterward, the 1964 World's Fair resulted in an increase in traffic on the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge. [122]
Throgs Neck Bridge: 1961: 2,910.0 886.97: 6 lanes of I-295 (Throgs Neck Expressway) Harlem River. From south to north, east to west: Name Opening year Length Carries
E-ZPass tolls for automobiles on what the MTA calls major crossings — the Verrazzano, Whitestone, Throgs Neck and RFK/Triborough bridges and the Queens Midtown and Hugh L. Carey Brooklyn Battery ...
Interstate 295 (I-295) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway within New York City.Measuring 7.7 miles (12.4 km) in length, I-295 originates at NY 25 (Hillside Avenue) in Queens, running north across Queens and over the tolled Throgs Neck Bridge, to Bruckner Interchange, a junction with I-95, I-278, I-678, and the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx.
But today, the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge is closed again after federal officials raised concerns about a vintage section of the nearly century-old bridge that carried about 15,000 vehicles a day.
While I-95 leaves at the Bruckner Interchange in Throgs Neck, following the Bruckner Expressway and New England Thruway to Connecticut, the Cross Bronx Expressway continues east, carrying I-295 to the merge with the Throgs Neck Expressway near the Throgs Neck Bridge. Though the road goes primarily northwest-to-southeast, the nominal directions ...