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New York - August 2017
   

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New York — Disappearing Project?

August 2017

An article in the Village Voice asks what has become of Mayor DiBlasio's BQX streetcar plan. A 17-minute video produced by a group of Hunter College students argues that the Mayor's Brooklyn-Queens Express streetcar was really designed to provide windfall profits to property developers along the waterfront, not to meet a transportation need.

Follow this link to the article and to the video on Youtube:

The Mysterious Disappearance of Mayor de Blasio’s $2.5B Streetcar Plan

 

 

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