By DAVID CRUZ

They’re going back to the drawing board.

A 2007 blueprint to rehab Mosholu Parkway has been tossed out, and community members have offered new input on some of the priorities needed to fix the parkway.

At a forum on April 29, community residents broke up into teams of nine to pinpoint pockets of improvement for Mosholu Parkway, a freeway that cuts through the Bedford Park/Norwood community and towards the Saw Mill River Parkway. Pages of ideas are currently being sorted out and vetted by the offices of councilmen Andrew Cohen and Ritchie Torres to determine its feasibility.

“The idea is to get some real grassroots, on-the-ground feedback about what we think we would like to see,” said Cohen, who opened the workshop with his comments. “Some of them are going to be possible. Some of them are not going to be possible.”

Handed a printout that showed a portion of Mosholu Parkway, residents studied the map and jotted down some ideas, with Elizabeth Quaranta, president of the Friends of Mosholu Parkway, offering guidance. At one table, Betty Diana Arce a community resident, assessed that crosswalks were needed along the parkway. As it stands, pedestrians often take a chance of getting hit by a car while crossing the middle of the roadway.

“We need a crosswalk,” said Arce, pointing to a section between Bainbridge Avenue and Van Cortlandt Park East, which measures a third of a mile. “Look at that span. People have created their own crosswalk.”

“It’s such a long distance between the next available space to cross,” said JR Castaner, a nearby resident who joined Arce. “People dart across the parkway also.”

At another table, Jay Shuffield, a community resident, sat at the same roundtable as Aaron Bouska, vice president for Government and Community Relations for the New York City Botanical Garden, proposing changes that include a reduction of extra lanes to widen the center medians, upgrading stormwater drainage, and improving the greenway’s bike paths. Shuffield suggested that some issues can be immediately fixed with assistance from the city Department of Transportation, which utilizes its rapid response toolkit. “[The DOT] already did a nice job with the new sitting area they created by closing the unnecessary slip ramp at the end of the Grand Concourse,” he wrote in an email.

But even if fresh ideas led to a new design plan, scouring for funding would likely be the most difficult task. The original plan to fix Mosholu Parkway was conceived when the Bloomberg Administration was in office, though it fell by the wayside, with the de Blasio Administration showing little interest. Maintenance of the parkway happens routinely, though a comprehensive rehabilitation project has not been seen since 1979, according to Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj, who also offered remarks.

The original 2007 plan, championed by the Four Bronx Institution Alliance, put a focus on the parkway’s primary three-lane roadway on the north and southbound sides, starting at an exit by Bronx River Parkway, cutting through the Bedford Park neighborhood, and towards the entrance to the Saw Mill River Parkway.

A spokeswoman for Cohen’s office said another meeting will be scheduled following the office’s assessment of proposals that will also be screened by various city agencies that include Transportation, Design & Construction, and Parks departments.