Saturday, September 17, 2022

The Queensway has just been approved

 


NY1

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday unveiled an investment of $35 million to begin phase one of QueensWay, a new linear park planned for Queens.

The funding includes $2.5 million from the City Council, a press release said. 

“We are moving from a city of no to a city of yes and QueensWay is the way we are going to go throughout this entire city,” Adams said at news conference in Forest Hills. “And ensure that open space, green ways, good clean environments for children and families will continue to grow in this city.”   

The first phase of the project will help transform a section of an abandoned Long Island Rail Road line in Forest Hills, known as the Met Hub, into a five-acre park.

Once complete, the 47-acre QueensWay will provide the 2.4 million residents living in the borough with a new open space that will give them access to recreational amenities, outdoor educational programs and an alternative transportation to schools, businesses, and 10 bus lines, the release said. 

“QueensWay improves quality of life, improves the air quality and it promotes both physical and mental well-being and it gives more visibility to businesses along the route,” Adams said. “And so this is an economic stimulus as well.” 

But some residents were hoping get more transit options.

Last month, state, local and federal officials signed onto a letter calling for Adams and Gov. Hochul environmental impact study on the prospect of a subway line being extended into the area.

“QueensWay improves quality of life, improves the air quality and it promotes both physical and mental well-being and it gives more visibility to businesses along the route,” Adams said. “And so this is an economic stimulus as well.” 

 The gaslighting by every elected official at this announcement about the lack of park space and how it's a transit desert is mind blowing. Forest Park is by there and spans 4 neighborhoods. Numerous bus lines go around there. This also throws any plan to restore the rail transit line in the garbage.

And here's another thing. Why are two members from Transportation Alternatives there? That's Peter Beadle on the left who was at that hilarious parody protest against Jenifer Rajkumar by the rail line last year and fellow bike zealot and shameless anti-car fascist Juan Restrepo. Does that "non"-profit "public streets advocacy" organization have a government office we are not aware of? Their presence is also heinous because their Queens chairman Jim Burke recently defamed a community group led by a gay man as homophobes and racists with absolutely no evidence with the help of one of their fellow elected officials in City Council!




It's astounding how this plan just materialized from thin air after Adams made budget cuts to every municipality only a few days ago and city council found money to fund this fantastical project. This isn't the city of yes like Swagger Adams says, this is the twilight zone.

32 comments:

georgetheatheist said...

I can't wait to get mugged there.

Anonymous said...

But, But JQ, it improves the air quality.
We will get Carbon Credits and our social score will improve as well. Win Win....

Anonymous said...

Notice they're not prioritizing green spaces in Da Bronx.

Anonymous said...

You NYC Sheeple don’t need a new subway. You can’t keep the criminals out of the current subways which are murder zones.

Anonymous said...

Think Sheeple, Swagger will get more TV coverage and praise from the TA Commies.

Anonymous said...

Just the newest MUGGING PARK.

Anonymous said...

The scooters and illegal dirt bikes will love it. Straight getaway that no cops will follow in with a car.

Anonymous said...

DO NOT MESS WITH BIKERS OR SKATERS IN NEW YORK!
They will wreck your car....

Anonymous said...

More space for TA commie to practice his taxpayer financed e-bike skills.
Land theft in essence.

Anonymous said...

Notice the trend? Anything and everything that makes life worse and more expensive is encouraged by the Dems.

Anonymous said...

Here’s your explanation, sheeple: you elected globalist Quislings, and now you’re reaping what you voted.

Anonymous said...

The crimes being committed here are "Crimes against citizens" by allowing uncontrolled spending against American taxpayers.

Anonymous said...

Down Low Eric wants a ramble in every borough.

Disgruntled Citizens Podatrist said...

Wow great minds think alike - my first thought on reading that article was Danger danger Will Robinson!
It will be the new hunting grounds for feral psychotic children. Not all that far away three 13 year old girls helped kick a cab driver to death.
Do the decision makers

Anonymous said...

Take you Greenway and shove it up your TA commies asses. We need a subway line not some pie in the sky greenway.

If no one ever noticed Queens is transit desert.

CarFascist said...

They should have made it into free car storage.

Anonymous said...

Forest park is a dump with a road going through it. Get rid of the road, and then you could call it a park.

Anonymous said...

Cars sre for commies!

Anonymous said...

More Bike Lanes for ShitLibs !

Anonymous said...

Our buffoon mayor. Who actually makes Bill de Blasio look like George Marshall in comparison.

Anonymous said...

New York where the streets are paved with homeless.

Anonymous said...

Some people vote with their heart. Some their wallet...
New Yorkers vote with their psychosis....

Anonymous said...

Geez, what a bunch of assholes in that picture, enough to make a proctologist work overtime...

Anonymous said...

Former Queens resident said...
Watching NYC deteriorating back to its glory days of being a cesspool has a certain car accident curiosity factor to it. Glad I moved to the great free state of Florida in 2020 !

Anonymous said...

BANANA

build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone

FloridaTroll said...

I wish I had something else to do down here in the swamp besides reading about Queens.

Anonymous said...

Glad I moved to the great free state of Florida in 2020 !

About half as glad as your former NY neighbors are.

Anonymous said...

How absurd! Rail bridges as parks? Just like parks over garbage dumps. Tear it down, dig it up and clean the soil. Don't ask kids to play with haz mats for histrionic preservation. New haz mats fray less than old haz mats and are always less dangerous. They persecute businesses for such haz mats, but for them it is just quaint.

Do you know the real story behind Love Canal? Hooker Chemical sealed toxic waste underground but the city wanted their land. Hooker sued because it was toxic, finally relenting when the city agreed not to pierce the seal. They built a parking lot. Guess what the city did next? Build a school. Hooker sued again. School built, kids, sick, national hysteria, Hooker blamed instead of city. Then you wonder why industry moved to Asia? Their brains are in kakaland.

Anonymous said...

This won't stay open for a park for long.

Soon developers will build homeless shelters and affordable housing for the crack attics, violent sex predators, career criminals and illegal immigrants who are really running this city into the ground full of rats!

Anonymous said...

Identity politics is a plague on this world.

Anonymous said...

Parks are nice and necessary, but we need this space for public transportation. They want to force us out of our cars, they have to give us ways to get to the other outer boroughs that don't involve riding through Manhattan.

Disgruntled Citizen said...

Could it be another toxic Brownfields!? But go ahead make your little park. This is better than riding the wall of death - going there you'll either get mugged,shot, stabbed or get cancer. Rikers Island
Is a Brownfields.NYC places like schools courthouses prisons hospitals and police/fire houses are all on unreclaimed brownfields

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