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With fixes still up in the air, will the BQE become NYC’s own Big Dig?
The expressway’s triple-cantilever section is being shored up with short-term fixes while the city figures out what to do next.
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Stephen Nessen
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Time is running out for Mayor Adams — and the broken-down BQE
City engineers have warned the steel rebar inside the concrete of the highway's triple-cantilever is corroded, putting the entirety of the over 70-year-old structure at risk of failure.
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Stephen Nessen
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Crackdown on BQE trucks expands to safeguard crumbling NYC roadway
The city is enforcing more weight limits but has yet to come up with a plan to fix the expressway's triple cantilever.
By
Elizabeth Shwe
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NYC considers turning blighted areas beneath the BQE into vibrant public spaces
A new report from the city's transportation department lays out a slew of proposals to convert areas around the traffic-choked highway into spaces New Yorkers might actually enjoy.
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Stephen Nessen
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Brooklyn Heights BQE section gets fewer overweight trucks due to automated enforcement
After the city's crackdown began last year, the number of overweight trucks traveling on the Queens-bound side of the BQE's triple cantilever portion dropped 64%.
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Catalina Gonella
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NYC has a new plan to fix an ailing BQE section. Construction won’t begin until 2029.
The Department of Transportation’s latest vision for the highway’s triple-cantilever structure in Brooklyn Heights stacks traffic lanes directly atop one another.
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Stephen Nessen
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Brooklyn BQE section to close again for repairs the first weekend of June
The Queens-bound side of the highway will close to traffic in Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo from June 1 to 3.
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Catalina Gonella
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Brooklyn Heights BQE segment to close to Queens-bound traffic in mid-April
No cars will be allowed between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street from 2 a.m. on April 13 to 4 a.m. on April 15.
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Catalina Gonella
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New plans to fix BQE in Brooklyn Heights revealed
Each proposal would place the roadway in a slightly different position, leaving room to cap the highway with new greenspace. Each option would still have two lanes of traffic and leave a third lane for either a breakdown lane or for high occupancy vehicles.
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Stephen Nessen
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Tearing Down the BQE? Bay Ridge Subway Line? City Leaders Dreaming Big About How To Spend Federal Infrastructure Money
It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the city, Carlos Scissura, head of the New York Building Congress, said.
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Stephen Nessen
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