New York faces a challenge: How does it fix a disintegrating highway that serves as a critical traffic artery while preserving the Brooklyn Heights Promenade?
Visitors walk along Brooklyn Heights Promenade during a rainy day Friday April 5, 2019, in New York. The promenade makes up the top deck overhang of a deteriorating Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the city's plans for repairs has drawn neighborhood protest, since it calls for a temporary six lane highway on the promenade.
The problem is that the whole structure, now 65 years old, is falling apart. And, until this week, the city's favored proposal had been to build a temporary highway on top of the promenade that would operate for at least six years while the expressway was rehabilitated. "We will be engaging in a transparent, collaborative process to find the best solution for one of the most criticalThe pressure is on because the six-lane expressway "won't be drivable within a decade," said Carlo Scissura, the head of the New York Building Congress, which is working with the city on coming up with a replacement plan.
"We don't have all the time in the world because the BQE is deteriorating. It's a substandard structure with a lot of vibration, volume of traffic and weight that was not envisioned when it was built," says Trottenberg, adding, "We feel an urgency about this. Options under discussion include reconstructing the highway one lane at a time, which could double the length of construction, or reimagining the project entirely.
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