The BQE’s broken math (and opportunity)

For decades, the city Department of Transportation has asked, “How should we rebuild the crumbling triple cantilever of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE)?”

We at Off-Ramp ask a different question: “Why would we rebuild this midcentury relic of Robert Moses? Why wouldn’t we take the opportunity to remove the entire BQE and build transit in its place?” So we developed an economic model to quantify what each option would cost, and what each future would enable.