Three designers unveiled plans on how to make the BQE more environmentally friendly but city officials are concerned over the price tag, according to the Brooklyn Paper.
The Economic Development Corporation sponsored the effort to create a greener thoroughfare in an attempt to reconnect neighborhoods cut off by the highway and to reduce noise. Possible solutions include: planting hundreds of trees along the thoroughfare for $10 million; the construction of six pedestrian and bicycle bridges over the ditch for between $20 and $45 million; and for $85 million the city could build an energy creating “green canopy” stretching from Atlantic Avenue to Hamilton Avenue, the entire length of the ditch, the Brooklyn Paper reports.
Funding and maintenance remain large questions for the project but some politicians, like Councilman Brad Lander (D-Park Slope) remain optimistic, according to the Brooklyn Paper.
Photos of the proposed designs are available on the Brooklyn Paper’s website.
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