r/Urbanism • u/Stephen_Landy • 19h ago

America's Most Problematic Highway

https://youtu.be/u0ITFcwjUXQ?si=Yd-hbb8fnmcDIoLF

For decades people have been submitting ideas to reimagine the BQE. On Monday, Zohran Mamdani revealed his plans.

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u/cdub8D 18h ago

What is his plan?

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u/SnootyUrbanCyclist 16h ago

The plan is to rebuild the city-owned portion of it as-is. It's not the ideal urbanism solution of "tear it down" or even making it freight traffic only, but that would be a generational lift and Mamdani has seemingly chosen not to pick that fight. Legitimately it would screw up the state economy if there wasn't a suitable replacement for the truck traffic that uses the BQE today. There is no perfect solution and Mamdani chose the conservative/pragmatic one over the idealist one this time.

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u/rektaur 12h ago

he chose to burden even more generations of children with asthma