New York City is declaring again that it has made significant progress keeping overweight trucks off a key highway using a weigh-in-wotion (WIM) system. Now it wants to expand the use of the technology to other parts of the state that handle heavy truck traffic.
The WIM technology is on the unique cantilevered section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, designated Interstate 278, that runs between south Brooklyn and north into Queens. The cantilever is a three-tiered structure that moves...
New York City began using weigh-in-motion (WIM) technology Thursday on a key stretch of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE), with fines eventually awaiting trucks that exceed current weight limits.The plan is one part of a back-and-forth decision-making process by the city as it figures out what to do with a cantilevered section of the BQE near Brooklyn Heights and across lower New York Bay from the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan. It is a key truck route in the New York City area.
And while...
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There’s another delay in the plan to rebuild a unique section of a key New York City highway that handles about 150,000 cars per day.
Reconstruction of the cantilevered section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in Brooklyn saw a chunk of its funding pushed out further into the future in a recent budget proposal by first-year Mayor Eric Adams.
While the entire length of the BQE has numerous structural issues, it is the section with its unique cantilever structure, riding below the Brooklyn Heights...
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The plan recently announced by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to deal with a key piece of interstate highway structure that needs significant repairs appears to put a heavy burden on the trucking industry.
At the center of the plan is a structure that is unique in American highways: a three-deck cantilever that carries roughly 150,000 cars a day on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE), which is also part of Interstate 278 in the New York City area.
But the cantilevered highway that hugs the...
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