The future of the $2.7 billion streetcar connecting western Queens to the Brooklyn waterfront will be up to the next mayor of New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
The coronavirus pandemic and fiscal constraints have significantly delayed the timeline of the project, dubbed the Brooklyn Queens Connector or BQX.
The city had just begun the environmental review process for the 11-mile streetcar project in
February but the pandemic brought the process to a screeching halt. It was scheduled to begin scoping and public hearings in May and June, but has been delayed indefinitely.
Yesterday, de Blasio said the next administration will decide the fate of the project, as his term ends in 2021.
“We’re going to continue to do the work to prepare,” he said at a press briefing. “The decisions will have to be made by-and-large in the next administration given the time that’s been lost here.”
The project also comes at a time when New York City faces a multi-billion-dollar budget hole due to economic fallout from the pandemic.
At the end of April, de Blasio said he was unsure whether the city had the funds to cover its share of the costs — given the budget crisis. He said that “substantial federal funding” was needed to make the project a reality.
Critics of the BQX argue that the project is not worth the multi-billion dollar cost. Many transit advocates say the money would be better spent on improving MTA buses and bus lanes, which cost much less.
14 comments:
Moe said...
There is no money left for his B.S. BQX.
NYC is gong to go belly up, they scared off the geese who laid the golden eggs and the rest of the unwashed left don't make enough for DeBozo and his "Wife" to steal so he and Cuomomo are going to have to panhandle to make up the difference.
Did you hear the latest from the Californicans? IF you flee their filthy feces stained over taxed state, you will have to pay them for 10 years after in taxes for all the goodness you got from them. Now THAT'S communism. IF I left their stinking state I'd love to see them try to get my money.
Good now do the local jails
Well you can't fix stupid but you can run out of othere peoples money !
DeBlowso and McCray and their whole damned family - Grifters, scammers and potheads! Perfect for the loony liberal left NYers.
HEY, MCCRAY, WHERE IS THE MISSING 850 MILLION IN TAXPAYER MONEY THAT WENT TO THE PHONY "THRIVE NYC" FUND???????
Great, now the next thing to go should be the multi billion dollar genius plan to build new PRISONS!!
Amazing what bullshit comes to a halt with the money dries up.
HOW ELSE AM I GOING TO GO FROM THE BEER GARDEN IN ASTORIA TO THE BARCADE IN WILLIAMSBURG?
My dad cut off my (his) credit card!
Save the Man Bun !
No big loss.
No need for any of this. People are leaving in droves!
https://youtu.be/uZDNU3Yha78
If De Blasio axes the new jails, he just might salvage the memory of his shitty mayoralty in the minds of New Yorkers.
"Salvage the memory of his shitty mayoralty" Impossible the damage is done !
"Salvage the memory of his shitty mayoralty"
No need to salvage anything, we could never forget even if we wanted to.
The demise of the hipster train could start a wave of beard oil panic buying
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