The weight concern was specifically on the cantilever section which is crumbling and heading to collapse without major rehabilitation/reconstruction. The weight of the traffic backups on the other sections aren't an issue (or are much less of an issue)

Yeah it was an emergency move to buy time to pass the political football and kick the can down the road. The reduction caused other problems, such as creating an artificial bottleneck resulting in massive traffic backups. It was always meant to be temporary.

It created a bottleneck causing larger traffic jams at more hours of the day. Demand stayed pretty much the same because there aren't many great options for getting to the Verrazano to leave the city for Brooklyn and Queens residents.

It's already 3 lanes each way. The reduction was an emergency political football to buy time before the thing collapses, and has added a bottleneck causing massive backups at all times. Rebuilding with 3 lanes is maintaining the current size, not an expansion.

It reduced the incline grade so the climb is easier for large trucks. They also reworked the LIE interchange. No lanes were added to the through BQE, just the LIE ramps.

Negligible compared to the MTA waste and corruption

It is funded properly. It needs to get its house in order.

There are plenty of highways with tolled Express lanes that dynamically adjust the toll. Every entrance to the tolled area will have gantries anyway so its simple to count entrances and exits.

because the BQE is the way to bypass manhattan

trains are vary infrequent at night. You are asking this person to make their commute significantly longer.

if it were actually about congestion, the price would be dynamic based on current congestion levels.

by "served by" you mean barely even entered

it's a necessity for Brooklyn, and some Queens, residents to leave the island. Especially with congestion pricing coming.

the brackets aren't very different either. The middle class gets soaked.

It's a group of foreign airlines that run it.

They can find a reason to fuck with you if they wanted to.

Half a million new units would definitely lower rent

Because it's Mario kart

Yeah but durians

IDK I didn't see any

R32 FOREVER!!

I was recently in Singapore and their MRT made me want to cry.

Give everyone a placard so they become worthless

a lot of landmarks should be rolled back. Why do we need to landmark a building so unique it looks exactly like every other building around it? Everything worth landmarking has already been landmarked.

Yeah the landmark commission goes way overboard. At this point they're trying to justify the continued existence of their jobs.