New roads expected to reduce truck traffic in South Bronx

Gov. Kathy Hochul is touting the completion of a project to reduce emissions in the South Bronx. It’s a decades-in the making change to truck traffic to and from the Hunts Point market that supplies most of the city's produce, meat and fish. 

Now there are new ramps and roads connecting Sheridan Boulevard and the Bruckner Expressway directly to the Hunts Point Terminal Market. The state expects this will get thousands of trucks off of local streets.

Advocates have been trying to reduce traffic in this part of the Bronx for decades. It’s an area with the highest asthma rates in the country.

This is the first phase in a $1.7 billion state project to reduce traffic in the area. Advocates praise the new changes, but worry about traffic coming and going from a new neighbor—two Amazon warehouses that recently opened in the South Bronx.