It’s Stupid That One Hand Doesn’t Know What The Other Is Doing Because Everyone Knows Hands Don’t Think

Apparently no one told Brooklyn Bridge Park planners that the area is slated to be used as a staging area for extensive work on the BQE sometime in the next decade:

Long-overdue renovations to a key stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway would destroy the park component of a soon-to-be-built development along the Brooklyn Heights waterfront — and the state agency doing the roadwork isn’t talking to the state agency building the park.

Repairs to the three-layered portion of the BQE are necessary — but they won’t start for nearly a decade, years after the so-called Brooklyn Bridge Park is mostly completed.

But the only way to make the repairs, experts said, is to use Brooklyn Bridge Park as a staging area.

“It makes no sense for them to build the park, tear it apart, and then build it again,” said Brian Ketcham, a traffic expert who has been lobbying for an alternative to the BQE for more than two decades.

State transportation officials told federal officials about their latest plans last week in Washington — and shockwaves were quickly felt in Brooklyn.

“We haven’t been fully briefed,” said Marianna Koval, executive director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy.

Roy Sloane, a longtime park advocate, also said that he hadn’t heard about the project.

“The news of the reconstruction was a shocker for the members of the [Brooklyn Bridge Park] board,” he said.

The current plan calls for replacing the cantilevered levels of the BQE near the Brooklyn Bridge by cutting out pieces of the two-mile stretch, and then sliding pre-fabricated pieces in their place.

Doing so would require a large part of Brooklyn Bridge Park as a staging area, transportation officials told the feds.

“It’s going to be a hell of a mess,” said Ketcham.