Local Leaders Question the Revival of the BQX Streetcar Plan
The proposed waterfront streetcar project would cost an estimated $2.73 billion and some are questioning the expense, our sister pub Brooklyn Paper reports.
It’s No Teleporter, But the Mayor-Supported Streetcar Is Going to Be a Game Changer
Bummed the L train might not run for a year? Cursing the G train’s spotty service? The Mayor finally has some good transit news — he’s backing the Brooklyn Queens Connector, a high-profile proposal for a 16-mile waterfront streetcar line running from Sunset Park to Astoria.
If built, it will be a transportation breakthrough for Brooklyn. But hold onto your Metrocards, the trek to streetcar utopia won’t happen overnight.
Would You Ride This $1.7 Billion Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar?
Rendering and map of proposed streetcar system from Friends of the Brooklyn-Queens Connector via Daily News
Talk of a streetcar system connecting Brooklyn and Queens has been in the air for years — the subway is Manhattan-centric, and Citi Bike isn’t optimal when you’re trying to get from Red Hook to Long Island City.
To reignite interest in the plan for a streetcar running along the waterfront from Sunset Park to Astoria, a booster group called Friends of the Brooklyn-Queens Connector have released glossy new renderings of our possible streetcar-filled future.
Would you ride?
