
Mamdani pitches $4B plan to finally fix NYC’s crumbling BQE ‘without slowing city down’ #shorts
He won’t leave it B-QE.
A crumbling section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will finally be fixed under a $4 billion plan unveiled by Zohran Mamdani on Monday — the latest pitch to tackle a dangerous problem that has long bedeviled New York City mayors.
Groundbreaking won’t happen until at least 2030, but the plan would rebuild the expressway’s troubled stacked roadways — known as the “triple-cantilever” — rather than demolish them completely, as proposed by some long-frustrated New Yorkers, officials said.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/08/24/us-news/mamdani-pitches-4b-plan-to-fix-nycs-crumbling-bqe/
#mamdani #bqe #expressway #mayor #nyc
A crumbling section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will finally be fixed under a $4 billion plan unveiled by Zohran Mamdani on Monday — the latest pitch to tackle a dangerous problem that has long bedeviled New York City mayors.
Groundbreaking won’t happen until at least 2030, but the plan would rebuild the expressway’s troubled stacked roadways — known as the “triple-cantilever” — rather than demolish them completely, as proposed by some long-frustrated New Yorkers, officials said.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/08/24/us-news/mamdani-pitches-4b-plan-to-fix-nycs-crumbling-bqe/
#mamdani #bqe #expressway #mayor #nyc
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