City delays BQE construction start, says roadway is safe amid interim repairs. Plus, an important community meeting where the Department of Transportation presented new visions for the unsafe Atlantic Ave Interchange area.
City delays BQE construction start
As per Brooklyn Paper, the city has delayed its timeline on reimagining the Triple Cantilever portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, stalling the start of construction by at least a few months. Rather than conducting a comprehensive traffic study concurrently with a two-year environmental review, as was initially planned, the city’s Department of Transportation will now carry out the traffic study first. The results of the study, along with feedback from an additional round of public engagement, will help the city select between two designs for the environmental review — with either two or three lanes of traffic moving in either direction on the dilapidated roadway. Per the new timeline, the environmental review — which was scheduled to begin this fall, after being delayed for the first time earlier this year — will start in early 2024. Final design and construction has also been pushed back, from early 2027 to the later half of the same year. Read more here.
Community meeting Atlantic Ave Interchange re-imagination
DOT’s plan for Atlantic Ave. Interchange infuriates residents. Read more here.
