The Adams Admin has always stressed “critical freight corridor” as a theme in its hurry-up-replace-the-highway-in-kind approach, but it never admits that trucks are ~10% of vehicle volume or that we should question the need for a huge passenger car corridor thru Brooklyn

LOL did this w keynote on my phone during a boring meeting in 2016

Or begins to smoke/melt when confronted by conflicting imperatives

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Especially where the city has already admitted the roadway is overbuilt and done a quick project for bike lanes and pedestrian space!

❤️ the project accounts that jump 9 years between bullets

Quiet leadership from the Congressmember while other lesser pols were being noisy and stupid. No coverage of this at all in the major local media outlets whenever they ran anything.

We live with a fair number of good champions in such a stupid environment

My theory after visiting some mid-size French cities a year ago is that there is an Anne Hidalgo effect influencing a lot of municipal govts

"We owe this slow-roll to mediocrity to the wealthy denizens of the Fifth Avenue Association, who stymied the 2021 plan... The group’s members include Saks Fifth Avenue, the Trump Organization and Bergdorf Goodman."

There are some similar corridor planning efforts underway now - they haven't translated to the street yet, but putting the spurs to this work and having the greenways realized would be a great thing nycdotprojects.info/greenways

That became an active framework for plugging in construction funding. Still work to do at many points, but it started w the Congresswoman’s active support. The 2012 action plan is here:
nycdotprojects.info/sites/defaul...

At NYCDOT back in the day, we found an allocation of roughly $14M in unspent federal $$$. Previous management had ignored it.

The money had been secured by Rep Velazquez, working with the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative. In consultation w the Congresswoman, we put the funds into a corridor plan