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29-839: The Bronx and Pelham Parkway , also known formally as the Bronx–Pelham Parkway but called Pelham Parkway in everyday use, is a 2.25-mile-long (3.62 km) parkway in the borough of the Bronx in New York City . The road begins in Bronx Park at the Bronx River Parkway and U.S. Route 1 (US 1) and ends at Interstate 95 (I-95), the New England Thruway , in Pelham Bay Park , hence

58-575: A expressway , crossing over the Northeast Corridor tracks and entering Pelham Bay . It enters a partial cloverleaf interchange with the Hutchinson River Parkway (exit 3). Less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) later, the parkway enters Pelham Bay Park and has another cloverleaf interchange with I-95 (the New England Thruway ). This junction serves as the eastern terminus of Pelham Parkway, which continues east into

87-426: A daily basis by DOT. DOT sets the speed limit on all roads and highways in the city, including those owned by NYSDOT. DOT is also responsible for oversight of transportation-related issues, such as authorizing jitney van services and permits for street construction. DOT also advocates for transportation safety issues, including promotion of pedestrian and bicycle safety . Its regulations are compiled in title 34 of

116-519: A neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. Some regions of New York have parkways that are not owned or maintained by a state agency. Westchester County, for example, contains some highways that were originally part of the TSPC and WCPC, while Suffolk County has preserved a section of the former Long Island Motor Parkway (LIMP) for current driving and built their own roads on land originally reserved for

145-416: A scenic way into, out of, and around New York City . The first section of this system opened in 1908. Most of the early roads have been replaced and redesigned to address higher speed requirements and to increase capacity. In later sections north of New York City, the roadways were typically divided by a wide landscaped median and provided service areas along the way that offered fuel and restrooms . During

174-580: Is not permitted on the surface section, however it can use the paralleling service roads. The parkway is maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation . The residential neighborhood that surrounds the parkway is Morris Park , though the part of the neighborhood closest to the road is commonly referred to as Pelham Parkway . A bikeway , which signed as a portion of the East Coast Greenway travels alongside

203-736: Is the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, and was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams on January 1, 2022. Former Commissioners have included Polly Trottenberg , Janette Sadik-Khan , and Iris Weinshall . The NYCDOT has a training center in eastern Queens . The Department of Transportation's responsibilities include day-to-day maintenance of the city's streets, highways, bridges, sidewalks, street signs, traffic signals, and street lights. DOT supervises street resurfacing, pothole repair, parking meter installation and maintenance, and municipal parking facility management. DOT also operates

232-825: The New York City Rules . The first traffic lights in New York City originated from traffic towers installed along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the 1910s. The first such towers were installed in 1920 and were replaced in 1929 by bronze traffic signals. As of June 30, 2011 , the DOT oversaw 12,460 intersections citywide with traffic lights. By 2017, the DOT controlled nearly 13,000 signalized intersections, almost all of which had pedestrian signals; of these, over half (7,507) had countdown timers for pedestrians. In addition, 635 signalized intersections under

261-699: The Boston Post Road – US 1 turns north and leaves the parkway. The road, a six-lane divided boulevard , crosses under the New York City Subway 's IRT White Plains Road Line (the 2 and ​ 5 trains) at the Pelham Parkway station at an intersection with White Plains Road . The parkway continues east through the Morris Park neighborhood, passing and intersecting with Williamsbridge Road, which leads to

290-548: The Jacobi Medical Center . At this intersection, the parkway also crosses over the IRT Dyre Avenue Line (the 5 train) at the underground Pelham Parkway station on that line. The parkway bends eastward, crossing Eastchester Road, then Stillwell Avenue merges into the parkway, marking the eastern end of the service roads. After Stillwell Avenue and leaving Morris Park, the parkway becomes

319-613: The Mosholu Parkway and a large interchange with I-95 and a never built portion of I-895 at the current interchange with I-95 in Pelham Bay. Due to a growing opposition to highway improvements in the city partially fueled by opposition to the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway , only the section from Shore Road to Stillwell Avenue was upgraded to a freeway. In 2010, many trees were cut down along

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348-533: The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) within New York City. Today, the state parkways are for the most part equivalent to expressways and freeways built in other parts of the country, except for a few oddities. First, because many of these roads were either designed before civil engineers had experience building roads for automobile use or widened in response to increasing traffic, many New York parkways lack shoulders . Second, because designers focused more on making routes scenic rather than efficient,

377-537: The New York City Parks Department . The parkway between White Plains Road and Stillwell Avenue has a wide landscaped median between the frontage roads on both sides and the westbound main road. The space between the westbound main and frontage roads on the north side is used as a park, with benches and walking paths. The parkway also has two bike paths between Boston Road and Stillwell Avenue, one for each direction. These bike paths are part of

406-505: The Sprain Brook Parkway , are functionally equivalent to a freeway ; others, like Seven Lakes Drive , are two-lane undivided roads. The majority of parkways are located in downstate New York , where the state parkway system originated in the early 20th century. The state's parkway system originally began as a series of then-high-speed (25 miles per hour or 40 kilometres per hour) four-lane roads that were created to provide

435-533: The Staten Island Ferry . DOT is the exclusive provider of day-to-day operations and maintenance on state-maintained roads and highways in city limits, while major repairs and capital improvements on state-owned roads are performed by the State DOT ( NYSDOT ). Both DOT and NYSDOT reserve the right to install signage, signals, and other roadway features on state highways, which then become maintained on

464-599: The Van Cortlandt and Pell families' properties in the western and eastern Bronx respectively. He formed the New York Park Association in November 1881. There were objections to the system, which would apparently be too far from Manhattan, in addition to precluding development on the parks' sites. However, newspapers and prominent lobbyists, who supported such a park system, were able to petition

493-544: The 1930s, urban planner Robert Moses developed a system of parkways in the New York City area. Many of these parkways were built by regional agencies such as the Long Island State Park Commission (LISPC), New York City Parks Department , Taconic State Park Commission (TSPC), Westchester County Parks Commission (WCPC), and Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC). Most are now maintained, if not owned, by NYSDOT outside New York City and

522-675: The Bronx became part of the city and neighborhoods, highways, and parks built up, the Pelham Parkway became a commuter route. Construction on today's Pelham Parkway started in 1935 under parks commissioner Robert Moses and was completed in 1937. In the 1950s and 1960s, Moses wanted to upgrade the parkway to a freeway and extend it to the Henry Hudson Parkway in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan . It would also connect to proposed limited-access upgrade and extension of

551-656: The DOT's control had exclusive pedestrian phases as of 2017 . As of 2019 , the DOT maintained 548 accessible pedestrian signals for blind and visually impaired pedestrians. The first such signals were installed in 1957, but few accessible signals were added for the next half-century. In 2021, a federal judge ruled that the DOT had to install accessible signals at 9,000 intersections; the DOT plans to install these signals through 2031. All remaining intersections are planned to have accessible signals by 2036. The DOT maintains 250,000 streetlamps as of 2019 . Most of them are LED lamps , installed between 2013 and 2018. One of

580-659: The LISPC. The surviving remnant of the LIMP in western Suffolk County, named the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway , became a surface road that is no longer an expressway nor off limits to commercial vehicles. New York City Department of Transportation The New York City Department of Transportation ( NYCDOT ) is the agency of the government of New York City responsible for the management of much of New York City 's transportation infrastructure. Ydanis Rodriguez

609-479: The Pelham Parkway so that NYSDOT could install a guardrail in response to an uptick in accidents. While there was local opposition to this, the project was carried out, and the parks department vowed to plant 200 new trees along the parkway. The entire route is in the New York City borough of the Bronx .  Parkways in New York The individual parkways vary widely in composition. Some, such as

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638-660: The bill into the New York State Senate , and later, the New York State Assembly (the legislature's lower house ). In June 1884, Governor Grover Cleveland signed the New Parks Act into law, authorizing the creation of the park system. The system consisted of three parkways and six parks, with Bronx Park at the center of the system. Bronx Park was connected to Pelham Bay Park in the east via Pelham Parkway; to Van Cortlandt Park in

667-444: The larger East Coast Greenway , which connects Maine and Florida . In the 1870s, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned a greenbelt across the Bronx, consisting of parks and parkways that would align with existing geography. However, in 1877, the city declined to act upon his plan. Around the same time, New York Herald editor John Mullaly pushed for the creation of parks in New York City, particularly lauding

696-495: The larger groups of traffic restrictions implemented by the DOT is in Midtown Manhattan , where the DOT maintains a system of "thru streets" and split traffic-signal phases to prevent congestion on west–east streets. As of 2017, DOT had the budget and staff as follows: The DOT operates 794 roadway and pedestrian bridges throughout New York City, including 25 movable bridges. The agency's portfolio includes most of

725-500: The northwest via Mosholu Parkway ; and to Crotona Park in the south via Crotona Parkway. There were no direct connections to Claremont Park and St. Mary's Park , the other two parks in the system. The original Pelham Parkway was built in 1911 and opened in 1912 as a small, two-lane road in today's westbound lanes through what was then rural Westchester County. The road had strict building codes, as nobody could build within 150 feet of it. When New York City boomed after World War I and

754-444: The park as an expressway known as Shore Road . The speed limit on the parkway is 25 miles per hour (40 km/h) between Boston Road and Stillwell Avenue (the surface section), and 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) between Stillwell Avenue and Shore Road (the limited-access section). Pelham Parkway is maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), while the surrounding landscaping and bike path are managed by

783-459: The parkway for its entire length. Pelham Parkway begins at a cloverleaf interchange with the Bronx River Parkway (exit 7W–E) in the Bronx Park section of the Bronx . West of here, it continues as East Fordham Road , which also carries the US 1 designation. The first 0.18 miles (0.29 km) of the Pelham Parkway is co-signed with US 1. At an intersection with Boston Road – named for

812-528: The parkways are meandering, often built to follow a river, and so contain many turns. Finally, because most use low, decorative stone-arch overpasses that would trap trucks, commercial vehicles, trucks and tractor trailers are banned from parkways. In Manhattan , this has led to nearly all trucks being forced onto local streets as the island has only one short Interstate (the Trans-Manhattan Expressway ) passing through Washington Heights ,

841-522: The roadway's name. The parkway is designated as New York State Route 907F ( NY 907F ), an unsigned reference route , by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). Despite the parkway moniker, Pelham Parkway is partially a freeway and partially a boulevard , with two main roadways (one in each direction), and two service roads on the surface section. Like other parkways in New York City, commercial traffic

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