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Brooklyn borough president: "Get investors, pension funds to rebuild NY/I-278 BQE/Gowanus"
By Peter Samuel on December 10, 2011
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has written Andrew Cuomo the New York state governor lambasting the decision to
abandon planning for a rebuild and modernization of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) and the Gowanus Expressway (GE), both NY/I-278 and urging they be financed with a public private partnership and pension fund i
Without tolls rebuild of BQE, Gowanus Exwy NY/I-278 dies
By Peter Samuel on November 30, 2011
Without any tolling option New York State DOT has been forced to drop a long planned rebuild of an old segment of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) and a portion of the Gowanus Expressway, both I-278 in Brooklyn. The project covers 5.3 miles, 8.5km of 2x3 lane expressway that goes back to Robert Moses time in the 1940s. Also included was a portion of the Gowanus Expressway.
NYC TUNNEL:RPA urges 3-tube tunnel to replace Gowanus El
By Peter Samuel on July 26, 1997NYC TUNNEL:RPA urges 3-tube tunnel to replace Gowanus El
Originally published in issue 17 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jul 1997.
Page:10
Subjects:undergrounding
Facilities:Gowanus tunnel
Agencies:NYSDOT
Locations:NY I-278
Sources:Appleton
