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October 19, 2008
Fixing Brooklyn-Queens Expressway: Ins and Outs Discussed at Meeting
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Dennis Holt
One won’t see any physical work on “fixing up” the Downtown Brooklyn portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) and its Brooklyn Heights “cantilever” for some seven to 10 more years, but the long process of talking about it has begun.Last week, members of the state Department of Transportation met with members of the Transportation Committee of Community Board 6 and others to begin that “long process.”
It has been known for some time that much of this 1.5-mile stretch from Sands Street to Atlantic Avenue needed some attention and some rebuilding. Just exactly what will be required is not yet determined, another reason for the “long process.”
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[Peter] King [head of regional planning for the state Department of Transportation (DOT)], in fact, noted that extra efforts will be made to keep trucks off Atlantic Avenue, since that street will anchor two major projects within two miles of each other -- the park and Atlantic Yards. Public meetings will begin next year in part to help prepare for the critical Environmental Impact Statement, whose zone of study will be expanded far beyond the normal limits of an EIS.
Posted by amy at October 19, 2008 12:12 PM