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DOT Shows Off Ways to ‘Reconnect’ Communities Harmed by BQE, But Questions Remain
On Tuesday night, the Adams administration offered a glimpse of some changes it hopes to make along the BQE corridor.
March 21, 2023
Analysis: City Ignored BQE Panel Recs To Ease Local Traffic From Two-Lane Conversion
The city has failed to adopt key recommendations by its own appointed experts to curb congestion near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway after officials reduced the highway from six to four lanes — and the Adams administration may be now using that same congestion as a justification for building a wider highway.
March 20, 2023
THE POWER BROKERS: Brooklyn Machine Fights Smaller BQE at Closed-Door City Hall Meeting
The Brooklyn Democratic machine wants a "superhighway in perpetuity," said one supporter of narrowing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
March 4, 2023
City May Build A Temporary Highway Through Brooklyn Heights After All
Hey 2023, 2018 called and it wants its temporary highway back.
March 1, 2023
Tuesday’s Headlines: Fix the BQE/Love is In The Air Edition
It's Valentine's Day — and nothing gets the hearts of Streetsblog's staff jumping like a potential highway removal. Plus other news.
February 14, 2023
Locals Don’t Love the City’s Long-Awaited Re-Widening of Crumbling BQE
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.
December 14, 2022
City May Restore BQE to Six Full Lanes of Nastiness, Sources Say
The future of the BQE may be going backwards.
December 13, 2022
DOT Proposes Protected Bike Path, Bus Lane for Washington Bridge (The Other One)
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.
November 9, 2022
OPINION: On Nov. 8, Yes, Vote, But to Rebuild New York, Make Your Ideas Heard
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.
November 1, 2022
Adams Says He Wants a Better BQE — And Kicks Off a Years- or Decade-Long Process to Get There
It's a tale of two BQEs.
September 16, 2022
