TransportAzumah

At the BQE oversight hearing, Menchaca just asked how much this consulting contract was for! Trent from Arup responded that it was $245,000 (!!!)

also Trent noted that they weren't hired to do a full transportation study on the impacts of each proposal. He said they were given the various project ideas and asked to evaluate them

Reynoso brings up how this project, in a white affluent district, is being handled differently than one in his majority Latinx/black district

Councilman Stephen Levin, in whose district this project sits, said, "my admonition to the mayor and the governor is to work together, have your agencies work together" he noted that city and state DOTs would not be able to accomplish this work well without working together

NYBC President Carlo Scissura is up now, advocating for the recommendations in the expert panel report that he authored (and that was commissioned by the mayor). He argues that shrinking the BQE to two lanes in each direction is an important move