Highways

Perhaps the process will result in a better plan — but it will definitely insulate the mayor from the political fallout of his DOT's initial plan.

But the Regional Plan Association stopped short of calling for the roadway to be fully torn down.

Step 1: Ban cars. Step 2: Build a new (and long) park from Dumbo to Carroll Gardens.

Other cities have done it — and broken the car culture at the same time — so the possible future mayor says we should dream, too.

There is a quick and pleasant way to get from Staten Island to Manhattan during the morning rush, but it comes with a high price tag.

It's time for a boulevard-style roadway, not a $4-billion highway repair.

Here's a project we're glad not to be doing (but we're thrilled someone is). Gallery owner Robert Hult is spending today walking the route of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, not on the highway but as close alongside it as possible, and posting regular photos to his Twitter account.

Between 1950 and 1964, Robert Moses gouged a path across two boroughs to build the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, the BQE slices through the urban fabric in the form of a below-grade trench, which has given many residents of those neighborhoods hope of covering that section of highway. As more people have moved to the west side of the ditch, the pressure to do something has mounted, but the BQE trench won't get capped any time soon.

StreetFilms joined up with Transportation Alternatives' Executive Director, Paul Steely White to talk about congestion pricing with express bus commuters in Bay Ridge. Bus riders told White that they'd like to have more buses and a faster commute. One commuter pointed out that virtually every automobile on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway carries just one person.