Transportation
NYC Takes on Weighty Task: Fixing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
The $5 billion plan is the latest in a parade of proposals to repair, replace or reimagine a deteriorating road that’s bedeviled generations of transportation officials.
New York City is releasing a new plan to fix a deteriorating stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which carries 130,000 cars and trucks per day but is in such poor shape that sensors weigh trucks crossing the deck in real time to prevent heavy vehicles from collapsing the highway.
The plan is the latest development in a nearly 20-year saga that has highlighted the political and financial obstacles to building and repairing major infrastructure, even when a majority of stakeholders agree it’s needed.