To kick off the environmental review process for the Interborough Express, the first in a series of public meetings happened Wednesday at Brooklyn College, where people could learn more about the project, voice their opinions and ask more questions. <\/p>\n
The MTA says the Interborough Express would connect nearly 900,000 New Yorkers with a direct, 14-mile route from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to Jackson Heights, Queens. The project would connect 17 subway lines, 50 bus routes and two Long Island Rail Road stations.<\/p>\n
Students like Oluwaseun Ajala say the project would put his commute back on track.<\/p>\n
\u201cI take like two buses. It\u2019s a little bit stressful. That would be way easier for me to come from Queens to Brooklyn so I would love that,” said Ajala.<\/p>\n
Project director Jordan Smith says the environmental review process and series of public meetings are a critical step in moving the project along. Smith says the project will relieve congestion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re taking cars off the road, which is one of the benefits of a transit project. That’s, I think, one of the big benefits that the public can expect,” said Smith.<\/p>\n
The next public meeting will be held in Queens on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To kick off the environmental review process for the Interborough Express, the first in a series of public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8588,14737,14736,1606,1607,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-22143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-commute","tag-commuters","tag-commuting","tag-lirr","tag-long-island-rail-road","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}