The city's Department of Transportation has stalled on its commitment to implement sensors on the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway intended to fine owners of overweight trucks, a group of Brooklyn elected officials charged on Wednesday.
amNY Sports email newsletterThe city’s Department of Transportation has stalled on its commitment to implement sensors on the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway intended to fine owners of overweight trucks, a group of Brooklyn elected officials charged on Wednesday.anticipated working deadline of this month to install “weigh-in-motion” sensors
“As we embark on what will undoubtedly be a long and complicated process to improve and re-imagine the entire BQE corridor,” they continued, “we want the public to know that we are deeply concerned about this delay, and we are doing everything we can to keep communities safe.” “Higher live loads cause greater stress on the structure, shorten its life, decrease reliability and reduce the safety factor,” the experts wrote., enabling the creation of a DOT-led pilot program checking trucks automatically instead of relying on eagle-eyed cops to spot and stop trucks carrying hefty loads; in prior years, DOT had implemented the technology on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge, which connects Manhattan and the Bronx over the Harlem River.
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