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New plan for NYC’s BQE involves temporary roads: Mamdani
Complete with a video showing him booting a metal container and declaring that New York City was not going to “kick the can down the road” any longer on repairing the key freight thoroughfare of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway’s (BQE) cantilevered section, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a plan to rebuild the highway. Earlier plans to “rehabilitate”–the city’s term–the roughly 1.5 miles of the BQE that is owned by the city, and which includes the cantilevered section that has been under such strain, have either been withdrawn or replaced with short-term measures like stronger enforcement of weigh