DOT Plans Brooklyn Bridge Overhaul
Downtown Express reports that the Department of Transportation will spearhead a $300 million renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge. The work, which is scheduled to occur mostly on nights and weekends between 2009 and 2014, will involve widening ramps on both the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides of the landmark; restoring its arches, which have been badly…
Downtown Express reports that the Department of Transportation will spearhead a $300 million renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge. The work, which is scheduled to occur mostly on nights and weekends between 2009 and 2014, will involve widening ramps on both the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides of the landmark; restoring its arches, which have been badly weathered; and adding steel safety barriers to the bridge’s roadways. The DOT also plans to paint the structure beige, its original color.
Brooklyn Bridge to Get a Little Coffee Color [Downtown Express]
Brooklyn Bridge to Get Structural, Cosmetic Makeover [Gothamist]
Photo by FocusBrooklyn.
Biff…I’m at work so i can’t monitor the comments all day long but I need for you to stick more specifically to the topic
Is there any other country that is so hostile to cyclists and accepting of SUVs? Such ignorance in so many ways…
bikes are vehicles and should be in the vehicle lanes.
These free East River bridges have been sucking the taxpayers dry for decades. It’s time to slap a toll on them.
They should put in speed bumps for all the asshole bikers. Eventually someone will gt hurt, and THEN there will be a big outcry. But someone needs to get hurt first. Someone that counts.
I walk over the bridge on my way to work most mornings. For a while, there was often a fresh human dump about half way across. And i would always think, man, if they can’t prevent someone from taking a dump on the bridge every night — if they don’t notice THAT happening — how are they going to prevent someone from leaving another kind of bomb? Not a safe feeling.
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you don’t understand. they don’t do anything useful. they just close the ramp for two years and build a new one just like it, then they close that for two years and build another one just like it. the new ramps are exactly the same as the old ramps.
Not that I think DOT knows what they’re doing, but to be fair to them, Sam, every time they do a widening I’m sure a “Brooklyn Bridge Ramp Defense Coalition” pops up complaining that they’re stealing valuable parkland (like the no-man’s land where the ottnerness sculpture is) or similar nonsense, and forces them to scale back what would have otherwise been a reasonable long-term plan.
Instead of just widening the Cadman Plaza exit ramp, I would love them to just connect it directly to the BQE via a ramp or tunnel so the highway-bound traffic doesn’t have to sit through 2 lights on Old Fulton. That’s the real cause of the Brooklyn-bound backups on the bridge.
another complete boondoggle. I’m not that old and I have lived through two separate multi-year approach ramp widenings projects. Now there will be a third. unbelievable. Why don’t the journalists investigate this kind of idiotic watefulness?