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INFRASTRUCTUREDOT’s reconstruction project on sevenBelt Parkway Bridges will improve safetyand reliability for 150,000 drivers a dayBELT PARKWAY BRIDGESThe New York City Department of Transportation began thereconstruction of seven bridges and over the Belt Parkway in 2009.In total, the projects will cost nearly a billion dollars and improvesafety and reliability for 150,000 drivers who use the Belt everyday. The Fresh Creek Basin, Rockaway Parkway, Paerdegat Basin,Gerritsen Inlet, Mill Basin, Nostrand Avenue and the Bay RidgeAvenue Bridges are all original structures built starting in 1939. In2009, a construction contract began for three—the Belt Parkwayover Fresh Creek Basin, Rockaway Parkway, and Paerdegat Basin.Additionally, in order to mitigate wetland impacts, an offsite projectat Floyd Bennett Field within the Gateway National RecreationalArea (GNRA) was started in March 2011.Reconstruction of these bridges will improve safety and visibility.Lanes and the bike path will be wider, safety shoulders and medianbarriers will be constructed, and the roadways will be realignedto improve sight distances. NYCDOT anticipates that theseimprovements will reduce the current accident rate on this sectionof the Belt Parkway and improve highway drainage.New Paerdegat Basin Bridge in Canarsie.One of seven bridge projects along the Belt Parkway.178Chapter 13: A City of Bridges