ITT people don’t see where the BQE traffic is- near bridges and tunnels. Cross borough public transit won’t fix NJ, Manhattan and NJ commuting

Oh I know, so dumb that they stopped running it to Forest Hills

Are we talking about adding more space or not?

Reinstating those lanes will literally kill people when the increased loads lead to a collapse on that section.

I would say it gets "torqueir" rather than heavier, but either way lots more stress. Reducing that to two lanes with no other changes will extend the useful lifespan significantly. Going back to three lanes will kill people when it collapses.

I dont think there is a middle ground. Most think that "thank you, come again" somehow encourages drug use, but lets remember these people are drug addicts, they dont need encouragement, they've got all they need. If its lives you want to save than yes if you have to Narcan em every week thats what you do.

Or leave them to the streets.

> We booed him for giving a bullshit politician answer. I feel it is part of my proud heritage as a New Yorker that I got to personally boo the mayor when I wasn't even old enough to vote for him yet.

This is fantastic.

It took a while with tokens too

Could you get an RFID copier to clone your credit card to a chip, then put that in a ring behind the token? Unless your ring is currently functional in which case I want to know how it works!

you dont' induce demand by making more of that thing. ie: building more cars isn't inducing demand of cars. you can say making new york more desirable to live is inducing demand for housing, but building more housing isn't inducing demand for more housing.

Should we ban subways and buildings? Cities are made for people not buildings.

You know there are cycling clubs, races to train for, and simply cycling for fitness/to get faster, right? Or do you think anyone who puts effort into something is cosplaying?

If the lanes were re-opened, traffic would immediately improve along the route. People would notice the lack of traffic, and start driving more, since now it's convenient. The number of cars driving would increase until traffic was so unbearable that people are encouraged to use other methods of getting around, changing when they make their trip, or just don't make the trip at all. If the bottleneck isn't in this section of road, it'll be somewhere else along the route, but somewhere is going to be completely choked in traffic. This plays out over and over again with every freeway widening project, I don't see why we'd expect this to be different.

Thank you that’s all I need! I’ll give it a watch

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> that should go without saying for you people

Ummm, "you people?" Who are you referring to?

> islamic extremism is a cultural practice tho.

You used the word terrorism originally. Extremism is very different. More accurately, I would call it conservatism, with extremism common especially in social and family matters.

Look, you won't see me defending Islamic (or any other conservative religious practices) at all. But I'm just pointing out that the comparison you originally made around terrorism as a cultural practice was wildly inaccurate. There were many examples to use, this wasn't the right one.

A lot of the people on here are missing the fact that the BQE is a primary way to get to the Verrazano and on to NJ to get to a destination outside the city, where a car is a necessity. Simply expanding transit (which I support) instead wouldn't do anything for people leaving the city.

See that’s the thing, it depends on who you’re talking to. Just like the the demand for more housing in Long Island near LIRR stations isn’t welcomed there.

Removing a personal mode of rapid transportation without expanding another alternative mode of rapid transportation is setting the city up for failure. The MTA can barely keep up, they experience “train traffic”.

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Legendary. Will do this for next week. Thank you for the guide!

OMNY is coming with fare capping which is a huge huge benefit to people without the funds to pay for an unlimited all at once. It's a big step towards fairness.

Yes. Both horrible and made significantly worse by the lane reduction.

I think it's safe to say they were including debit cards in that question.

The cantilever section itself moves pretty well because it's after the bottleneck caused by the reduction. The backups are before the cantilever.

The weight concern was specifically on the cantilever section which is crumbling and heading to collapse without major rehabilitation/reconstruction. The weight of the traffic backups on the other sections aren't an issue (or are much less of an issue)