Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

What If There Were Tolls on the BQE?

By Noah Kazis | Nov 30, 2011 | 33 Comments

The state Department of Transportation announced yesterday the cancellation of plans to rebuild 5.3 miles of the BQE and the Gowanus Expressway. It wasn’t a new round of freeway revolts that killed these projects but the state’s busted transportation budget. “The economic downturn has affected all areas of government and Transportation is not an exception; […]

Fixing the Ditch: Planning a Less Awful BQE Trench

By Noah Kazis | May 13, 2010 | 22 Comments

The BQE trench divides a neighborhood in two, spewing noise and air pollution. Photo: NYCEDC [PDF] Between 1950 and 1964, Robert Moses gouged a path across two boroughs to build the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, the BQE slices through the urban fabric in the form of a below-grade trench, […]

StreetFilms: Bay Ridge Bus Commuters Talk Congestion Pricing

By Jason Varone | Nov 19, 2007 | 18 Comments

StreetFilms joined up with Transportation Alternatives’ Executive Director, Paul Steely White to talk about congestion pricing with express bus commuters in Bay Ridge. Bus riders told White that they’d like to have more buses and a faster commute. One commuter pointed out that virtually every automobile on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway carries just one person. Another […]

Brian Ketcham Proposes a “Simpler, Cheaper Traffic Fix”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 14, 2007 | 41 Comments

Distribution of vehicles entering Manhattan CBD by direction and pricing status (Zupan & Perrotta, 2003). In an op/ed piece in Monday’s Daily News, Brooklyn-based transportation consultant Brian Ketcham proposed some changes to Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Ketcham, who has been pushing for some form of congestion pricing since his time working for the Lindsay […]

They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 20, 2007 | 17 Comments

The Brooklyn Paper reports that there’s talk brewing about seizing an opportunity to bury the section of the BQE that runs underneath the Promenade, rather than simply repair it (right, the Atlantic Ave. overpass where the roadway rises near the site of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park and the One Brooklyn condo development): Some Brooklyn […]

Eyes on the Street: Grim, Immovable

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 2, 2007 | 9 Comments

The BQE, as seen from Lorimer Street. All this talk about Robert Moses lately leads one to think about the Freeway Revolt.

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