superace88 What’s Being Buried on the B.Q.E. This Weekend
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Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll look at why traffic on one section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will probably be slower than usual this weekend. We’ll also get details on the resignation of the city’s police commissioner after federal agents seized his phone.superace88
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It is one of the city’s most-traveled stretches of highway, and one of the most dreaded. It is also one of the shortest, only 300 feet. If traffic is moving at the speed limit, a car would zip over it in a few seconds.
It is part of the infamous B.Q.E. Central segment of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which carries traffic heading toward the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTOnly one lane of the short stretch between Adams Street and Washington Street will be open this weekend. Construction crews will be at work in the other two lanes from 1 a.m. Saturday until 5 a.m. Monday. The same timetable is on the calendar for next weekend.
Their mission will be to install what the city’s Department of Transportation calls weigh-in-motion equipment. They will be burying sensors that are essentially electronic scales under the pavement. The sensors can detect trucks that weigh more than regulations allow.
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