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[Sloan]

 

 

De Blasio’s Proposed Ferry and Streetcar Services May Compete For Riders

 

Two of Mayor Bill de Blasio's biggest transportation initiatives might actually be detrimental to each other, Politico reports, based on findings from a city-commissioned report released last week on the Brooklyn-Queens Connector.

http://ny.curbed.com...pete-for-riders

[KevinKorell]

Second Avenue Sagas, 4/27/16:

Inside the city’s report on the Brooklyn-Queens Connector

There’s a table in the city’s assessment of the proposed Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar that drives home the inherent tensions in the city’s plan. Over 70 percent of the expected ridership is going to use the streetcar as they would a bus. That is, instead of connecting neighborhoods in ways that the Mayor has repeatedly said it would, the streetcar will simply be another means for people to get from their homes to the subway and back.

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[Sloan]

 

 

Queens Residents Weigh in on Streetcar Proposal at Lively Meeting

 

Queens residents weren't shy about offering their opinions on the proposed Brooklyn-Queens streetcar system during a meeting hosted by the agencies planning the $2.5 billion project Monday evening.

http://www.nbcnewyor...-378737561.html

[Sloan]

 

 

Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Advocate Group Releases Board of Directors List

 

A group of developers, business leaders, urban planners and transit advocates — including former MTA head and mayoral candidate Joe Lhota — are launching a campaign in support of the city's plan to build a streetcar linking Brooklyn and Queens.

 https://www.dnainfo....-directors-list

Edited by Sloan, 13 May 2016 - 09:17 AM.

[CNJRoss]

am New York, 5/11:
 

Brooklyn Queens Connector group announces website, board members

 

 

Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector was set to launch its website on Thursday, geared toward organizing an educational campaign and engaging with New Yorkers during the city’s planning of the streetcar project.

 

 

The website, bqx.nyc, will serve as a “clearinghouse for information” about the project and a central hub for members of the community to get involved, according to the independent coalition.

 

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[Sloan]

 

 

New details emerge for the BQX, New York City’s proposed waterfront streetcar route

 

At breakfast talk hosted by the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center earlier this month, Harris Schechtman, national director of transit at Sam Schwartz Transportation Consultants, gave academics and members of the public a full run-down of plans for the Brooklyn-Queens Connector (BQX), a proposed waterfront streetcar link that would connect neighborhoods between Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Astoria, Queens.

http://archpaper.com...ils-emerge-bqx/

[Sloan]

 

 

The Mayor’s Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Plan Gets a Czar

 

In a sign that the planned BQX rail line along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront is chugging toward reality, the de Blasio administration has hired a streetcar czar: Adam Giambrone, sometime archaeologist, ex-Canadian politician, light-rail booster, former head of Toronto’s transit system, and, for one disastrous week in 2010, candidate for mayor of Toronto. Tall and athletic with a spiky crew cut and a Boy Scout demeanor, the 39-year-old Giambrone comes to the job with both experience and baggage — and with knowledge of New York sketchy enough that at one point during an interview he referred to the “Downtown East Side.”

http://nymag.com/dai...ts-a-czar.html#

 

 

 

SNIP:  

Giambrone’s job one is to go out and convince the people who live along the BQX’s proposed route that they should embrace years of construction, rejiggered streets, and the loss of free parking for their own and the greater good.

He will fail unless he builds a grass root coalition of citizens, politicians, and business leaders to endorse the project.      Sloan 

[Sloan]

 

 

Toronto’s Transit Advice for New York: Give Streetcars Their Own Lanes

TORONTO — As the streetcar crept along Queen Street West in clogged traffic through the heart of downtown, anxiety started to rise among those inside. Commuters checked the time, calculating how late they would be for work.

The red-and-white trolley did not feel like rapid transit.

http://www.nytimes.c...lanes.html?_r=0

[Sloan]

 

 

City Unveils Possible Routes for Streetcar in Brooklyn and Queens

 

As Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration moves forward on plans for a new streetcar line from Queens to Brooklyn, city officials on Tuesday unveiled the different routes they are considering for the project.

http://www.nytimes.c...ueens.html?_r=0

[KevinKorell]

Next City, 11/2/16:

 

 

NYC Teases More Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Details

 

 

NYC officials released more details Tuesday on the idea for a new streetcar linking Brooklyn and Queens, including potential routes and a timeline for construction. The $2.5 billion BQX would stretch from Astoria in Queens to Sunset Park in Brooklyn and connect some of the city’s most crowded waterfront neighborhoods.

Read this.