It is an awkward looking setup, forcing southbounders on Coney
Island Avenue, to cross over the Belt, make a sharp, backwards-angled
right turn, only to recross the Belt in order to enter it. It
probably makes more sense just to follow the westbound service
road about 3 blocks, across Ocean Pkwy and enter the Belt there.
I believe this stretch of the Belt was the last to be completed
and the cash strapped city was apparently too cheap to keep up
the installation of stone faced, arched overpasses, that had
been de riguer on the car-only parkways until then. |
Eastbound
view of the ramp, leading to the westbound Belt, from Coney Island
Avenue. It crosses diagonally from southbound Coney Island, back
across the Belt.
The view from the ramp,
looking west. Visible in the background is Coney Island Hospital,
at the corner of Ocean Pkwy and the Belt service road. A twinlamp
Bigloop pole stands guard over the ramp and it's parklike bike/walkway.