New York City comptroller, Scott Stringer, offers his proposal for repairing and re-imagining the BQE into a trucks-only highway with a park on top.
"This BQE plan is the new model, we can make renovations, we can get cars off the BQE by putting forth congestion pricing… it’s a new paradigm about how to think about developing in our communities by integrating transportation," says @NYCComptroller.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
"When congestion pricing is implemented, when we have different transportation alternatives, dedicated bus lanes, ways to move cars off the belt and into the Hugh Carry tunnel, when it’s all said and done we’ll see less cars on the highway," says @NYCComptroller. pic.twitter.com/7GXZIjBiBM
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
"Based on our calculations we could realize upwards to $650 million in estimated revenue…. We have got to raise revenue and earmark it to our subway and bus systems, it’s the only way we’re going to expand to a five borough economy," says @NYCComptroller on pied-à-terre tax.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
"We need this money that will actually make those properties even more valuable. A city with a strong transportation base… that is safe… that builds park space… that money enhances the value of those second homes," says @NYCComptroller on proposed pied-à-terre tax.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019