Aldebol asks about City Island traffic and environmental risks
Wong says the study considers congestion and whether ferry would exacerbate traffic; landings are built resilient to sea level rise but not full resiliency projects.
And City Island, as my colleague mentioned, has one road in and one road out.
Thank you.
City Island, as my colleague mentioned, has one road in and one road out, which leads to serious congestion along the island that affects cars, buses, emergency vehicles.
Will traffic congestion be taken into consideration in the study?
Can EDC estimate a decrease in car traffic that a ferry could potentially lead to?
Looking at existing transportation is an important part of looking at ferry opportunities.
As you pointed out, because it has a pretty congested single road down the middle for much of City Island, that is one of the things we consider, and whether or not bringing a ferry landing would in fact exacerbate traffic problems if people are coming in to use it from beyond City Island.
So, you know, these are the kind of things we think about when we're exploring the ideas.
The coastal areas of the East Bronx, including City Island, have also had serious pollution challenges and flood risks.
DLT and DDC are looking at many resilience and mitigation plans in the area, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
How will the study take into account
account climate change risks, changes to water level and shorelines, you know, garbage and pollutants spilling into East Chester Bay.
So how will, you know, will your study take a look at the environmental factors?
As a general matter, when we're looking at specific sites, if we're considering a specific area, then we are considering whether or not it has the existing upland infrastructure to handle it.
NYC Ferry in the past, and the way we've approached these, has not been to sort of bite off an entire resiliency project, but rather to see are there adequate facilities nearby at which we can site a ferry landing.
Ferry landings are, by their nature, able to handle some amount of sea level rise, but we make sure that the piles are high enough, that the landings are built in a resilient way, that the slope of the gangways are not going to be in excess.
So that's some of the ways that we're thinking about it.
Thank you.
Thank you.