{"id":9615,"date":"2025-10-20T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:20:11","slug":"mayor-adams-presses-feds-to-fast-track-bqe-overhaul-catching-community-groups-off-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9615\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams presses feds to fast-track BQE overhaul, catching community groups off guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams is urging the federal government to\u00a0expedite the long-delayed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/repair-not-rebuild-brooklyn-and-queens-neighborhood-groups-urge-dot-to-end-plans-for-major-bqe-overhaul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn-Queens Expressway<\/a> overhaul, warning that without immediate action, the city may be forced to impose truck weight restrictions and face massive\u00a0traffic disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>In an Oct. 15 letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Adams asked the feds to publish a Notice of Intent by Nov. 14 to begin the federal environmental review for the deteriorating 1.5-mile stretch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/infrastructure\/bqecentral.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BQE between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/adams-urges-feds-fast-track-bqe-overhaul-brooklyn-community-reacts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Brooklyn Paper &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMayor Adams presses feds to fast-track BQE overhaul, catching community groups off guard &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mayor Eric Adams is urging the federal government to\u00a0expedite the long-delayed\u00a0Brooklyn-Queens Expressway overhaul, warning that without immediate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[5333,8054,128,98,81,2400,9,24,12,370,63,8055,129,131,130,608],"class_list":["post-9615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bqe","tag-bqe-overhaul","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-eric-adams","tag-mayor-eric-adams","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-overhaul","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615","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=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}