{"id":702830,"date":"2026-04-03T21:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/702830\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:16:17","slug":"aoc-urges-hochul-to-scrap-plan-that-would-widen-cross-bronx-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/702830\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC urges Hochul to scrap plan that would widen Cross Bronx Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week lent her sizable megaphone to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/advocates-rally-against-any-cross-bronx-expansion-ahead-of-april-7-state-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fight against a New York State Department of Transportation plan<\/a> that would widen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/cross-bronx-expressway-our-forgotten-borough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cross Bronx Expressway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AOC \u2014 a Democrat who represents swaths of the east Bronx and western Queens \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/politicsny.com\/2026\/04\/03\/aoc-urges-hochul-to-scrap-plan-that-would-widen-cross-bronx-expressway\/file:\/\/\/users\/ethan\/downloads\/aoc%20letter%20on%20cross%20bronx%20expressway%205%20bridges%20project%20proposal.pdf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter<\/a> to Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday, urging the state\u2019s top executive not to pursue any plan that involves expanding the highway.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/aoc-hochul-opposed-cross-bronx-expressway-widening\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tAOC urges Hochul to scrap plan that would widen Cross Bronx Expressway &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week lent her sizable megaphone to the fight against a New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":636615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,15082,216787,167889,47264,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,31145,216790,167896,247130,264224,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-702830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-aoc","tag-bronx-river-houses","tag-bronx-river-alliance","tag-cross-bronx-expressway","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-transit","tag-nysdot","tag-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-robert-moses","tag-stop-the-cross-bronx-expansion-coalition","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116342855149338800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}