After a recent 15-car pile-up on the Bronx River Parkway on Jan. 18, we asked readers about their driving experiences in the Bronx.

I’m new to the Bronx, but the few highways I’ve been on have potholes, signs that say construction, and where they are going to dig. I keep asking myself, ‘why do they keep digging?’ They dig, they resurface the roadway and then they dig again and that has an effect on the ground. The road sinks, because it’s unsettled because of all the digging.
Patrick Sing
Belmont

 

The problem with the highways for me is I like to leave a car length of space and these drivers take advantage of that and cut you off, which is the reason why you have to drive a little faster. Because if you always leave that space, here in the City of New York, drivers have no respect. Another problem is debris, like a part of a tire or somebody’s shock absorber. When they have an accident, they leave these things on the highway.
Japhet Lebron
Belmont

Where is all the taxpayer money going? I missed work recently due to a [tire] blowout on the highway. The pothole was so big, the truck in front of me swerved to avoid it, and of course I hit it! I thought it was the Grand Canyon.
Gerard Corbett
Throgs Neck

 

I’ve been driving from the Bronx to New Rochelle and I have been encountering difficulties when getting on the Hutchinson River Parkway from the Bruckner Expressway—I think it’s Exit 54. I can sometimes sit at the light forever, because there are so many cars merging from everywhere. When you’re running late, it’s a horror.
Rosemarie Santana
Longwood

 

Personally, I don’t drive but sometimes I take a taxi home from the city and on the Henry Hudson Parkway there are large stretches of road where there [are] no lights. How is that not a dangerous situation? And they never fix it.
Brenda Cruz
Melrose