{"id":1040,"date":"2006-05-04T06:57:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/start_investing_along_3rd_avenue_now.html"},"modified":"2006-05-04T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T14:57:32","slug":"start_investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/start_investing.html","title":{"rendered":"Start Investing Along 3rd Avenue Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planners are considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/65520.htm\">replacing the Gowanus Expressway with a tunnel<\/a>, perhaps restoring 3rd Avenue to its former glory and rendering pointless hundreds of billboards:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Department of Transportation officials told The Post yesterday the agency has agreed on a subterranean route along the waterfront after reviewing 46 underground proposals &#8212; most of them running further inland &#8212; over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>Funding and other considerations will determine whether the below-grade highway ever gets built. The 3.5-mile, seven-lane tunnel would cost $12.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>But civic groups throughout western Brooklyn have long hoped that most of the crumbling current elevated structure will be torn down.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The other, far-less-costly options, include rehabilitating the constantly under-repairs expressway &#8212; built in the 1940s &#8212; or repairing the Gowanus and adding a two-lane viaduct over the existing structure to handle more volume.<\/p>\n<p>DOT cost estimates from 2001 are about $1.7 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively, for those options, adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n<p>All three proposals will be studied in the project&#8217;s environmental review process, which won&#8217;t be completed until 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Construction would begin a year later, and a tunnel could take nine years to build, officials said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planners are considering replacing the Gowanus Expressway with a tunnel, perhaps restoring 3rd Avenue to its former glory and rendering pointless hundreds of billboards: Department of Transportation officials told The Post yesterday the agency has agreed on a subterranean route along the waterfront after reviewing 46 underground proposals &#8212; most of them running further inland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}