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Overweight Truck Monitoring Starts on BQE, Thanks to Local Electeds

As reported by Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, starting this week the City’s Department of Transportation will start monitoring, using scales and license plate readers that were installed “months ago,” the weight of trucks using the Queens bound lanes of the cantilevered section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway that lies below Brooklyn Heights. Monitoring of the […]

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Public BQE Workshops Tuesday and Thursday; City “Re-Examining” Three Lane Plan

State Senator Andrew Gounardes’ newsletter advises us of two public workshops to discuss plans for the “BQE Central”; i.e. the cantilevered portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that sits below Brooklyn Heights between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street. On Tuesday, February 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM there will be an in-person workshop at Brooklyn Friends […]

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Online Debate Between State Senate Candidates This Evening

This evening (Wednesday, July 27) starting at 6:00 there will be an on line debate between incumbent State Senator Andrew Gounardes, whose district has been redrawn to include Brooklyn Heights, and David Yassky, who formerly represented Brooklyn Heights on the City Council and who is challenging Gounardes for the Democratic nomination in the primary election […]

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