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The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Jul 25 10:03:43 2016 Going to Brooklyn from Astoria, I can either use the BQE or take Woodhaven Boulevard. The last three times I have run into trouble on the BQE which should take me 36 minutes without traffic but can take two hours with traffic. So I usually use Woodhaven instead which usually takes me about 50 or 55 minutes.Last Saturday night after midnight, I decided to give the BQE a try since it was so late. Just after where I could have gotten off to use Woodhaven, I see a digital sign that the BQE is closed between Tillary and Atlantic after 1AM. Since it was 12:10 AM, I figured I had enough time not to worry. Then traffic slows down to 10 mph and there is another sign, this one stating the closure is at 12 AM not 1 AM which explained the slow traffic. The highway was already closed. There was about a 20 minute wait to get off at Metropolitan which is not all that unusual. I figured I would get off at Wythe instead of Tillary and use local streets. I waited almost a half hour to get off and all three lanes were packed solid all the way to Tillary, so that wait to get off at Tillary had to be even longer like maybe an hour. So the questions are why wasn't there adequate notice, why did the first sign give the wrong time for closure, and why do maintenance work on a Saturday night when people come home late and overtime is higher, rather than during the week after midnight when there is less traffic? The city makes a big deal about Manhattan traffic congestion and the need for congestion pricing when government themselves are responsible for much of the congestion. There is no reason for thousands of cars to be stuck in a massive traffic jam for hours after midnight due to poor planning. I think State DOT is the culprit but government has managed to muddy the waters so with the intermingling of responsibilities that is impossible much of the time to determine who is at fault. |
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