GREEN PARKWAY: Comptroller Scott Stringer recently proposed a laneby
lane expressway-repair scheme that would only reopen the triple
cantilever’s lower level to truck traffi c when complete, and transform
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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
It appears they’ve hit a roadblock.
City transit leaders are back
to square one with their looming
project to repair the Brooklyn
Queens Expressway’s
crumbling triple cantilever ,
according to the head of a local
community board, who told
members of his panel that offi -
cials claimed to lack a path forward
for the job after months of
debate over the current options
on the table.
“What was clearly said is,
‘We don’t have a plan right now,
we clearly don’t have a plan
right now,’ ” Community Board
2 Chairman Lenny Singletary
said of Department of Transportation
leaders at a March 13
meeting of the panel.
Singletary relayed the status
report following a closeddoor
gathering Transportation
Department brass hosted
at their Manhattan headquarters
with him and other leaders
of community boards 2 and
6 on March 11, where the agency’s
Commissioner Polly Trottenberg,
its Brooklyn Borough
Commissioner Keith Bray,
and nearly a dozen employees
discussed the project for almost
two hours with the chosen
group of attendees, who included
reps for local, state, and
federal pols.
The CB2 leader described
the session as a “positive, collaborative
conversation,” in
which the transit leaders admitted
they moved away from
the agency’s two initial plans
proposed last fall — which
would either turn the Brooklyn
Heights Promenade into a sixlane
speedway carrying cars
and trucks for no less than six
years in order to shore up the
triple cantilever; or repair the
three-tiered expressway laneby
lane, a longer job that could
cause traffi c jams on some local
streets for up to 12 miles —
after residents demanded the
city explore other options.
“What DOT shared with us
is that they learned a lot of information
from the fi rst large
meeting that took place. And
from that meeting, they decided
to, kind of, go back to the drawing
board.” Singletary said.
A Transportation Department
spokeswoman confi rmed
the agency is weighing multiple
proposals and will continue
to seek public comment as it determines
a fi nal plan.
“We are undertaking a
thorough review process that
will look at a range of options,
accompanied by substantial
community and expert engagement,”
said Alana Morales.
Options on the table include
the city’s so-called “innovative”
approach to turn the
Promenade into a highway;
its so-called “traditional” approach
to repair the triple cantilever
lane-by-lane; a third
plan proposed by civic leaders
with the Brooklyn Heights Association
and local architect
Marc Wouters , which calls
for sending expressway traffi
c on a temporary, two-tiered
roadway built on top of berms
along the Furman Street border
of Brooklyn Bridge Park
instead of along the Promenade;
and a fourth plan New
York City Comptroller Scott
Stringer submitted days after
the private meeting with
Transportation Department
and local leaders.
Stringer’s plan also proposes
repairing the 1.5-mile,
three-tiered stretch of expressway
between Atlantic
Avenue and Sands Street lane
by lane, eliminating the need
to create any temporary highway,
but only allowing trucks
on the roadway during the reconstruction.
And after the cantilever’s
middle and lower levels are repaired,
the scheme calls for reopening
only the lower level to
truck traffi c heading in both
directions, and turning the
middle level into an elevated,
two-mile park that would run
along the length of the triple
cantilever and onto a newly
built “deck” above the portion
of expressway between Atlantic
and Hamilton avenues.
Any proposals that transit
honchos ultimately deem viable
will be examined as part
of the federal environmental
review of the scheme required
before construction.
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