Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Rockaway street has sinking feeling
From DNA Info:
Part of a major roadway on the Rockaway peninsula has been closed for emergency repairs after officials declared the street unsafe.
Drivers have been detoured from Beach Channel Drive between Beach 108th and Beach 113th streets after the Department of Transportation closed it on Dec. 31, according to a spokesman.
The one-block segment along Jamaica Bay was shuttered due to "roadway conditions" but the DOT would not elaborate further and could not provide a timeline for when it would reopen again.
As a result of the closure, National Grid has had to halt its final stage of remediation work on the former gas plant, a spokeswoman said.
7 comments:
All of Rockaway is like that
What about College Point???
no one cares about college point. the roads flood and draining is horrible, but no one cares. its the second most inaccessible area of queens, second only to the rockaways. but no one cares. everyone pats Avella on the back, but he's never cared about College Point. not when he was in charge of the Sports Complex, not as councilman and not as Senator.
College Point has already become little Koreatown and Little Corona rolled into one, so i suggest you escape now before you are over run and forced out.
"College Point has already become little Koreatown and Little Corona rolled into one, so i suggest you escape now before you are over run and forced out."
I didn't know Donald Trump reads Queens Crap!!!
All of Rockaway is like that
True, being a peninsula, but this was suppose to improve the infrastructure after Sandy. As it turns out there was gradual damage overlooked for years before the storm hit
And now a major artery is in disrepair and I believe this is also an effect of land erosion in addition to man made incompetence. Some folks are not being honest here. But you don't want to deter any interest in the area, since it's become sort of a hipster/tourist destination all of sudden.
this has been happening for a long time. what JQ LLC says is 100% true. many blind eyes are turned when it comes to Rockaway.
Thanks for the acknowledgement, but don't only take my word for it.
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2014/06/concern-about-gas-pipeline-under.html
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2009/02/rockaway-cleanup-questioned.html
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2014/06/concern-about-gas-pipeline-under.html
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-building-atop-gas-line-wise-move.html
Here's a theory: Since the arrival of National Grid, there has been a lot of hipster and developer interest in Rockaway. Even after hurricanes Sandy and Irene did long-term and irreparable damage to the infrastructure, homes and small businesses there. Could this new renaissance on the beach be a kind of bread and circuses distraction from all the doings and undoings of this energy company and the potential hazards of the pipeline?
Stay tuned and be vigilant.
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