This morning the NY Times published a great article detailing our area’s widespread disgust with the eternally wretched conditions of our nearby highway, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Those in Cobble Hill vicinity may already know that the NY State Department of Transportation recently nixed key studies it had begin on the roadway’s condition, despite years of community involvement and the blatantly obvious need for countless repairs.
CHA President Roy Sloane previously offered these words to in response.
We were told by the state that the BQE was in danger of collapsing in the 80s… It’s also pathetic that they put all these years and effort in, spent money on all sorts of designs and are now dropping it.
Check out the full article at this link below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/nyregion/on-the-bqe-road-work-ahead-forever.html