At the celebration for the opening of the new $873 million Kosciuszko Bridge, New York Governor Cuomo flaunted how an increased number of lanes would speed up traffic by 65 percent.
Data compiled in September — the first full month of operation since the bridge’s second-span opened — reveals no improvement for drivers going from Queens to Brooklyn during rush hour and an average three…
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I call BS. I drive on it all the time, and it’s markedly improved.
Common sense would have predicted this. You could build one million lanes in this site but it doesn’t make any difference if at either end you have six lanes going in and six lanes going out.
It’s called the law of common sense.
I worked on the construction of both bridges, and i said from day 1, no matter how many lanes the new bridges have, the highway, aka BQE is only 3 lanes and not being expanded, so how to you expect it to be better than before, thats nonsense. But hey, what do you expect from government bureaucracy, especially in this state.