Hey 2023, 2018 called and it wants its temporary highway back.
City officials revealed to reporters on Tuesday that they may build an interim highway atop a residential street on the edge of Brooklyn Heights when they rebuild the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s beleaguered triple cantilever section — a controversial possibility that harkens back to an earlier plan that went down in flames.
According to DOT officials, the city has two options throughout construction of the crumbling infrastructure: a diversion, which would close the BQE on some nights and weekends and send traffic onto local roads, or a bypass road to function as a temporary highway adjacent to the existing BQE.
