A Tunnel Under Downtown Brooklyn?
According to the Brooklyn Paper this morning, one of leading concepts for addressing the crumbling cantilevered stretch of the BQE that runs through Brooklyn Heights is the creation of a tunnel below Downtown Brooklyn. The 2.5-mile express route would connect the Prospect Expressway to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. While other variations on the tunnel theme…
According to the Brooklyn Paper this morning, one of leading concepts for addressing the crumbling cantilevered stretch of the BQE that runs through Brooklyn Heights is the creation of a tunnel below Downtown Brooklyn. The 2.5-mile express route would connect the Prospect Expressway to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. While other variations on the tunnel theme (like a connector between the Atlantic Avenue trench and either Park Avenue in Fort Greene or the BQE is South Williamsburg) have emerged, the paper calls the Navy Yard plan “a favorite.” If it happened, say supporters, the existing cantilevered stretch could become either a local road or even a public space a la Manhattan’s Highline. Waddya think?
State Considering Long Tunnel to Bypass BQE [Brooklyn Paper]
Nine Years Until It Will Be Impossible to Drive Downtown [Brownstoner]
Photo by J. Nordberg
I concur with y’all. Question: Are they saying that all 2.5 miles will be essentially replaced by tunnel?
Another way for the city to smack us all with some more eminent domain?? They would probably need to put entry points and exits along the proposed tunnel. It would be like the construction of the BQE and Prospect Expressway all over again!
Like the 2nd Ave subway??????
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAH, we’ll all be dead by the time this starts!!!!
Ocean Parkway is NOT a highway. It is a parkway listed on the National Historic Register AND a NYC landmark.
The Brooklyn Promenade is also designated — and should include the roadway as part of its brilliant design. I would favor keeping the same alignment and controlling the overall traffic volume.
keep dreamin!!
I could dig the tunnel myself using a table spoon and be done before this ever even makes it through the planning stage.
Brooklyn’s own Big Dig. Should be fun to live through…
this will never happen in a million years.
umm, brilliant, except for that thing called money?