The Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Queens along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, is the most deteriorated of all the city’s elevated roadways, according to the General Contractors Association of New York, a labor and advocacy organization. The Daily News reports that yesterday the group made a public plea for funds to remedy the city’s saddest elevated roadways, which include second-worst candidate, the Gowanus Expressway, and eight others in the Bronx. The GCA states that current funding for the roadways is insufficient to repair and maintain them. It seems to us that the August 2007 collapse of the 35W bridge in Minneapolis should have been a warning sign to cities everywhere of the importance of regular testing and maintenance—since the GCA’s list is based on structural integrity, not just surface failures, hopefully someone in the city government is listening.
Kosciuszko Bridge Is Worst Elevated Roadway [NY Daily News]
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