Heavily trafficked Bronx bridge one of oldest and most dangerous in state

The Bronx is home to the Yankees, Co-Op City and a pretty well-known zoo. It’s also the site of one of the oldest, heavily trafficked — and most dangerous — bridges in the state. The 82-year-old connector, which carries the northbound lanes of the Major Deegan Expressway over an abandoned subway track just north of 161st St., supports nearly 150,000 vehicles per day. It’s listed among the 10 most traveled “structurally deficient” bridges in the state in a new report by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association. “I worry this structure might be close to the point of collapsing,” said Robert Sinclair the spokesman for the American Automobile Association. “If I were driving on the bridge, it would be very disconcerting to think the structure is in the shape that it is in.”

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