DOT/BQE Meeting: New Location

By on September 26, 2018 1:30 pm in BQE rehab

According to the BHA, Thursday’s meeting has been moved  to the Ingersoll Houses Community Center at 177 Myrtle Avenue at the corner of Prince Street.  The meeting will begin at 6:30 and doors open at 5:30 PM.

 

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  • gc

    What I said was that construction would go on night and day … how is that different from where you say that substantial night work will be necessary?

  • gc

    After hour work permits are apparently issued in large numbers all around the city.
    I’m guessing plenty will be issued for this project should it ever come to pass.

  • Eddyde

    The traditional plan would be almost all done at night, for “8+” most likely, 10 years. The “Innovative” plan would only require 1½ – 2 years of night work.

  • gc

    Hopefully we can both agree that it would be better to find a third or fourth alternative that is preferable to these two nightmares.

  • Eddyde

    A valiant idea but I don’t see it as being realistic.
    360 Furman, the BBP office building and the MTA vent & substation are all in the way. Also, there are minimum turn radiuses and slope angles to consider.
    You say “this could be the BQE’s new permanent route” Honestly, that wold be a severe drawback, who would want to have the BQE right in there face when on the Promenade.

  • Eddyde

    Absolutely, Though I think the Tunnel would be the only realistic option.

  • gc

    I am absolutely all for the tunnel.
    A 21st century solution that has been used successfully in other places.

  • Calista

    I live in Brooklyn Heights, near the promenade, and am as uneasy as many of the commenters here, but this idea about the park is not a good solution. The highway would make the park so polluted, loud, and dark as to be unusable–it’d be a massive underpass, and it would be much less safe than it is now. It would kill the newly planted trees, and deny Brooklyn kids of one of the few places where they can run around in relatively clean, healthy air. There are other solutions one can advocate for: there is *already* a tunnel that most cars can take, and DOT can leave one lane of the construction project open for major trucks. Send the cars in the tunnel, not fifty feet above a park for which so many New Yorkers have been grateful.

  • redlola

    Clearly, you are entitled to your own opinion, but there are plenty of parks around the city. I am way more concerned with the welfare and well being of my neighbors. The impact on brooklyn heights would be tragic. That park should have never been built until they addressed this. They knew that and chose to move ahead with a vanity project. That vanity project is not more important than making people here sick, displacing us from our homes, and generally destroying the quality of life many of us worked hard to secure. No one lives in a park.

  • Greg

    The MTA vent is 60 feet inward from the edge of Furman Street.

    The substation is 30 feet. This is tighter, but the BQE itself doesn’t run to the edge of Furman St.

    360 Furman looks like by far the biggest challenge in my view.

    But I appreciate all your points.

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