Staten Island Expressway Recovery Project Breaks Ground

The $74.8 million project to improve access on the Staten Island Expressway on a 1.9-mile section between Lily Pond Road and Clove Road has broken ground.

The project which includes the addition of lanes and ramps, the widening of overpasses and the realigning and leveling of the highway’s steepest curves in order to help with its infamous traffic received the largest amount of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act highway dollars in New York State with $39.5 million. Work on the project also includes the extension of bus lanes and the dismantling of unused overpasses.