Brooklyn neighbors react to BQE repair plan ahead of public meeting

Around here, it's hard to find someone who doesn't have an opinion on the city's BQE repair plan. Cars and trucks use it daily, but here's what inspectors say they found. A hole right through the concrete above Old Fulton Street, and in another spot, exposed steel. New York City's Department of Transportation says short-term repairs have kept this stretch safe. Now it wants to strengthen about a mile and a half of highway just north of Atlantic Avenue to Nassau Street. To me, it's almost a hopeless, hopeless... Unsolvable problem. Now the tough part is figuring out where all the traffic here goes while crews are fixing the highway. DOT is proposing two temporary roads. One would carry traffic both ways above Furman Street. The other would carry Queens-bound drivers near the Brooklyn Bridge. Some neighbors want the city to take a look at different routes. I've been exposed. like ever since I've lived here, pollution, it should be a tunnel. They should build a tunnel underground. I don't see a good answer, and I was here when the West Side Highway fell down, and we adapted to that. And under the proposal, construction could run from 2029 to 2040. One thing we heard from neighbors here with different ideas is that the road definitely needs work. Fix it as quick as possible. That's my only bit. And you can tell the city what you wanted to study regarding the BQE tomorrow night at City Tech at 6.30. There's also going to be an online meeting. And you can submit written comments until November 23rd. We'll have all that posted online. In Brooklyn Heights, Victor Robinson, News 12.