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.
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City Wins Biden Bucks to Begin the Process of Studying the Capping of the Cross Bronx Expwy
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"There is no initiative that would do more to improve the public health of the Bronx [and] improve the air quality and life expectancy than the transformation of the Cross Bronx Expressway," Rep. Ritchie Torres said on Monday.
Locals Don’t Love the City’s Long-Awaited Re-Widening of Crumbling BQE
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The city on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited plans for the beleaguered triple-cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, proposing three fairly similar options for a redesign of the crumbling infrastructure that will restore three lanes of traffic in each direction, albeit with a park on top.
City May Restore BQE to Six Full Lanes of Nastiness, Sources Say
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The future of the BQE may be going backwards.
DOT Proposes Protected Bike Path, Bus Lane for Washington Bridge (The Other One)
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The city wants to repurpose a pair of car lanes on the Washington Bridge for a two-way bike lane and a bus lane next year.
OPINION: On Nov. 8, Yes, Vote, But to Rebuild New York, Make Your Ideas Heard
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Casting a ballot on Election Day has always been important, but it has never been quite enough to meaningfully transform the lives of everyday New Yorkers. The story of the effort to deck over the Cross Bronx Expressway illustrates why.