By COLlive reporter
Members of the Misaskim organization met Friday with officials at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to explore ways of improving procedures for transporting a niftar to Israel and arranging levayos at the airport.
At the meeting, JFK officials notified Misaskim about an upcoming traffic-pattern change on the Belt Parkway and asked them to relay this information to the Jewish community.
The new traffic pattern will impact the eastbound and westbound lanes on the Belt Parkway.
Current westbound traffic will be redirected to a temporary bridge over Fresh Creek and then back onto the current westbound lanes.
Lanes across the temporary bridge are only 10-feet wide leaving no shoulder on the road.
The current eastbound traffic will be redirected to the current westbound lanes just east of the Rockaway Parkway entrance ramp, continuing over the current westbound Fresh Creek Bridge and then back on the current eastbound lanes just west of the exit ramp for Pennsylvania Avenue.
Those traveling on the Belt Parkway should anticipate unpredictable and perhaps heavier travel conditions and should allow more time for travel.
The new traffic pattern went fully into effect on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 and is expected to be in place for 18 months, if all goes according to schedule.
and the traffic has gotten worse past few days but the views of the ocean/bay are stunning and therapeutic and makes the drive still worth it! I LOVE NY!
According to the map, Fresh Creek is between exit 14 (Pennsylvania) and exit 13 (Rockaway Pkwy), traveling from Starrett City to Canarsie. Most people would not travel this way to and from Crown Heights.
i go on it everyday it flows the same way.
The Ohel is past the airport. This is before the airport.
between what exits is this? does this get in the way between CH and the Ohel?