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Comptroller Touts Truck-Only Use for BQE
City Comptroller Scott Stringer proposed revamping a two-mile stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that’s long overdue for repairs. He’d convert the triple-cantilevered roadway’s bottom level into a truck-only highway, while building a park on the upper levels.
“Repairing the BQE is an opportunity to reimagine a vital section of our city,” said Stringer. “But to really do that, we need to broaden our vision and consider all the options.“
Some 14,000 trucks use the BQE per day, Stringer wrote to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. Accordingly, a complete tear-down of that section is off the table.
“We can’t redirect those trucks on to local streets, we don’t have enough freight routes in the city, and this section of the BQE serves an essential manufacturing and warehouse corridor from Sunset Park and Red Hook to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and North Brooklyn,” he wrote.
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