Large Grant Put Toward Study On Needed Roosevelt Boulevard Improvements
By Jim Melwert
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A multi-million dollar grant is being put toward a study to make much-needed improvements to the Roosevelt Boulevard.
Five-million dollars will be used to study how to make the Boulevard safe for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists --- and more efficient for mass transit riders.
One of the recommendations from the Federal Department of Transportation is safe for pedestrian crossings and mass transit access -- and idea residents tell KYW Newsradio they embrace:
"It's almost impossible. You have to cross this in like four parts, which is insane."
"I would never walk on here. No."
"You look down the street and you say 'I think I can make this,' but some nut driving 120 mph comes out of nowhere."
Other recommendations include making legitimate express lanes with ramps, rather than the inner and outer drives and the dangerous and frustrating crossovers.
As for funding the study, $2.5-million coms from the federal government, $2.5-million from state and local sources.
Actual work wouldn't be finished for about a decade.