Brooklyn Queens Expressway Reconstruction of 61st Street to Broadway-Woodside, N.Y.
The roadway that snakes its way between Brooklyn and Queens is one of New York City’s busiest and is notorious for its congestion and high accident rates. The most recent in a series of BQE rehabilitation projects, completed in December 2008, reconstructed the dilapidated, serpentine, section of the highway between 61st St. and Broadway in Queens at a cost of $129 million.
Improvements included resurfacing/replacing pavement, realigning the roadway, widening lanes, creating breakdown shoulders and constructing a highway exchange at Broadway. Twelve bridges were rehabilitated including replacement of the superstructures on six of the spans.