New Design for Kosciuszko Bridge Set in Stone
A new design’s been chosen for the rehabilitation of the Kosciuszko Bridge. The design, one out of four proposed to Brooklyn and Queens residents, is the same one the Brooklyn Paper called the front runner last November. Along with a new aesthetic, the bridge will be widened from six to nine lanes and get a…
A new design’s been chosen for the rehabilitation of the Kosciuszko Bridge. The design, one out of four proposed to Brooklyn and Queens residents, is the same one the Brooklyn Paper called the front runner last November. Along with a new aesthetic, the bridge will be widened from six to nine lanes and get a shoulder and a bike lane. Gone will be Kosciuszko’s steep incline. The billion dollars needed to build it has been lined up through federal funding, with a tentative completion date of 2017.
Meet the New Kosc [Brooklyn Paper]
New Kosciuszko Bridge Won’t Come Cheap [Brownstoner]
Can anyone comment on the correct pronounciation here? Just about everyone I’ve heard in Brooklyn says Kos-kee-os-ko, but I’m told the Polish is more like Kos-chew-sko. However, if you say it that way around here no-one will know what you’re talking about. Anybody know which is really right?
not really a fan of the design
looks like the Zakim Bridge near Bunker Hill in Boston
thank you benson. Totally agree with everything you say. Can’t get shit done in this town.
Yeah, he killed it. After already spending 600M. Knuckleheads.
There is speculation that Cristie may end up killing the new rail tunnel to Manhattan. I hope not.
FSRG;
The lack of a freight rail tunnel is not a reflection of the efficiency of the past review process. Rather, it is a reflection of the rapidly-changing political dynamics of the time. Soon after the Port Authority was formed, the political will for a rail tunnel vanished. Truck transport was the rage and the wave of the future – or so they thought.
Anyway, I agree with you that the non-development of the rail tunnel is the biggest infrastructure mistake in NYC history.
Architect66 I have been screaming about the Juniper Park Civic Association for years – most horrible bunch of NIMBYs ever.
…and the Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel (most important infrastructure project never completed in NYC history) sort of belies a bit of Bensons point – the purpose of the Port Authority of NY/NJ when it was established was mainly to create a rail tunnel – that was over EIGHTY years ago. (point=not everything was a model of efficiency in our past)
Architect66;
I think we have reached a point of common understanding.
Perhaps you misunderstood my previous posts. I’m not trying to say that these regulations and the review process have been imposed from “on high” by some autocratic government official. I am arguing against the political culture that has developed in the Northeast, e.g. the kind of thinking that one often sees on Brownstoner.
I also believe that this political culture has created interest groups that would like to see the status quo continued. I am sure that the consultants who executed the EIS for the Flatbush Ave. overpass project thinks that things are just fine and dandy the way they are.
My bottom line is always this: when all is said and done, how many great public works projects have been executed in NYC in the past 40 years, compared to the previous 40? Is this what people want? Do we want to continue to delude ourselves into believing that any reform of our regulations will lead us to breathing in Shanghai pollution?