{"id":2081,"date":"2007-02-05T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/its_stupid_that_one_hand_doesnt_know_what_the_other_is_doing_because_everyone_knows_hands_dont_think.html"},"modified":"2007-02-05T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T18:00:06","slug":"its_stupid_that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/its_stupid_that.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Stupid That One Hand Doesn&#8217;t Know What The Other Is Doing Because Everyone Knows Hands Don&#8217;t Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently no one told Brooklyn Bridge Park planners that the area is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/5\/30_05bqe_vs_park.html\">slated to be used as a staging area for extensive work on the BQE sometime in the next decade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>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 &#8212; and the state agency doing the roadwork isn&#8217;t talking to the state agency building the park.<\/p>\n<p>Repairs to the three-layered portion of the BQE are necessary &#8212; but they won&#8217;t start for nearly a decade, years after the so-called Brooklyn Bridge Park is mostly completed.<\/p>\n<p>But the only way to make the repairs, experts said, is to use Brooklyn Bridge Park as a staging area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes no sense for them to build the park, tear it apart, and then build it again,&#8221; said Brian Ketcham, a traffic expert who has been lobbying for an alternative to the BQE for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>State transportation officials told federal officials about their latest plans last week in Washington &#8212; and shockwaves were quickly felt in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t been fully briefed,&#8221; said Marianna Koval, executive director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Sloane, a longtime park advocate, also said that he hadn&#8217;t heard about the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The news of the reconstruction was a shocker for the members of the [Brooklyn Bridge Park] board,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so would require a large part of Brooklyn Bridge Park as a staging area, transportation officials told the feds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a hell of a mess,&#8221; said Ketcham.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","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=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}