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were aimed at averting impending
disaster on the rapidly
deteriorating roadway —
were originally supposed to
be released last summer, and
a draft of it leaked to Politico
on Jan. 9.
The report rejects the many
more innovative approaches,
such as building a temporary
highway above the current
BQE during construction, or
tunneling car lanes beneath
the roadway — calling those
proposals either too costly or
too disruptive to surrounding
communities.
Those alternate plans surfaced
after Brooklyn Heights
residents shot down the city’s
proposal to build a temporary
highway on their beloved
promenade in September
2018.
The more modest proposal
released this week calls for the
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The panel wants the city to reduce the BQE’s lanes
from three to two in either direction.
city’s Department of Transportation
to discourage traffic
by closing or restricting
some of the ramps leading
on and off the BQE, diverting
some vehicles to the Williamsburg
Bridge, and allowing
small trucks to utilize the
Belt Parkway.
The city also needs to immediately
start fixing the triple
cantilever and work with
city and state police to up enforcement
to keep oversize
trucks from using the roadway
— which cause disproportionate
damage to the
structure, along with limiting
other heavy trucks.
The report also advocates
for officials to expand an array
of public transportation alternatives
along the BQE corridor
to divert traffic from the
highway, thereby extending
its lifespan as much as possible
— including a longer and
more frequent G-train, and
express service along the D,
R, and F lines.
The panel also endorsed
the mayor’s recently-revived
$2.73 billion trolley known
as the BQX, saying it provides
“an inexpensive and reliable
alternative” in the area,
along with the Bay Ridgeto
Bronx Triboro line, expanded
express bus service,
and a new ferry stop at Sunset
Park’s Pier 4.
In an effort to divert some
of the harmful freight traffic,
the panel proposed construction
of the nearly $10 billion
Cross Harbor Freight Tunnel
that would link freight trains
in Bay Ridge and New Jersey.
Another alternative included
carrying more freight loads
on barges across the city’s
waterways.
Other measures to curb
traffic include the in-theworks
split two-way tolling
on the Verrazzano Bridge
and congestion pricing for
traffic going into Manhattan,
which would make travel
through the Brooklyn Battery
Tunnel a more economical
option.
Existing 2-Lane Condition
admits shouldn’t have come
as a big surprise.
“It was naive and stupid,
and I’m kicking myself,” said
Tong.
The newly settled Park
Sloper found a security guard
and another Ikea employee,
who explained they were approached
by a woman and her
family concerned about the
unattended dog. The guard had
tried calling the phone number
found on Ana’s dog tags,
but misdialed it, and when the
owner didn’t immediately answer,
the misguided do-gooder
simply walked off with the
friendly pooch.
“I think she basically assumed
that I didn’t deserve
my dog and that she was doing
everyone a favor by taking
her,” Tong said.
The forlorn dog owner filed
a police report, and then turned
to social media, where she was
met with a flood of support
— and condemnation — and
her plight sparked on online
debate even as locals tried to
track down her pooch.
“People were getting into
little arguments with each
other about whether or not
I deserved this,” said Tong.
”Some people were saying ‘it
serves her right,’ and others
were saying ‘don’t say that!’
I’ve also gotten a ton of criticism
and judgement, which
is fine.”
It turned out that Tong’s
dognapper shared her information
with another woman
at Ikea before taking the Ana,
and the other lady spotted one
of the online posts advertising
the canine’s disappearance.
She soon contacted Tong, and
within hours the Park Slope
resident found herself reunited
with her beloved pooch, saying
there’s no hard feelings.
“I was being so roasted by
other people on Facebook, but
i understand she was scared
too,” said Tong. “I do think
her intentions were genuinely
good.”
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By Lloyd Mitchell
for Brooklyn Paper
Police arrested a 25-yearold
man for the death of a pregnant
woman at a Red Hook
housing project on Jan. 29.
Authorities responded to a
911 call at around 2 am, and
found 27-year-old Tatiana Walton
unresponsive in front of
the Red Hook Houses on Lorraine
Street between Otsego
and Columbia streets, leaving
neighbors shocked at the horrific
scene.
“I woke up and saw all of
this. Wow,” said Red Hook resident
Eli Dedina. “Blessings to
the victim and her family.”
Paramedics rushed Wal-
ton — who the New York
Post reported was “visibly
pregnant” — to Methodist
Hospital, where doctors pronounced
her dead, according
to authorities. The medical examiner
will determine her official
cause of death.
Cops, who were seen processing
the potential crime
scene until the early morning
hours, had been searching for
a dark colored Honda in connection
with the incident.
Authorities arrested the
Long Island man on Jan. 30
and officially classified the incident
as a homicide on Feb.
5 — and the investigation reCops
at the scene at 11 Lorraine Street in Red Hook. mains ongoing.
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