The State Has ‘No Plans’ to Redesign the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
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State DOT has “no plans” to “redesign the state-owned portion of the BQE," spokesman Joseph Morrissey confirmed in an email to Streetsblog last week.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gowanus Expressway
What If There Were Tolls on the BQE?
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The state Department of Transportation announced yesterday the cancellation of plans to rebuild 5.3 miles of the BQE and the Gowanus Expressway. It wasn’t a new round of freeway revolts that killed these projects but the state’s busted transportation budget. “The economic downturn has affected all areas of government and Transportation is not an exception; […]
The Perfect Argument for Congestion Pricing
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The Staten Island Advance ran an article last Thursday about a "perfect storm" of crushing Staten Island-bound traffic on the Gowanus Expressway and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. To give you a sense of the frustrated tone of the article, it was entitled "21-Month Nightmare: Agency Offers Zero Solutions for Verrazano Lane Mess." Here’s how it began: […]
Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues
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A third-grader was hit on her way to school here two weeks ago. You have to move fast to beat the turning traffic on Fourth Avenue. DOT Deputy Commissioner for Brooklyn Dalila Hall faced some tough questioning from members of the public at a meeting on pedestrian safety on Third and Fourth avenues in Brooklyn […]