The variety of chubby vans crossing the creakiest part of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway has been greater than halved by the set up of chubby car sensors, metropolis transportation officers introduced Tuesday.
Starting in November 2023, the town has used automated sensors on the Queens-bound facet of the BQE triple-cantilever in downtown Brooklyn to evaluate fines to chubby vans.
An evaluation of a years value of information exhibits that chubby crossings of the triple-cantilever have fallen by 60% for the reason that automated fines started — a mean of three,041 chubby vans every month, down from 7,920 a month previous to this system starting.
“I hope our productive partnership with legislative leaders and the Governor to bring weigh-in-motion to New York City, and the results it has yielded, can serve as a national model for other cities and states, including the rest of New York State,” metropolis transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez mentioned in a press release.
Some 130,000 autos traverse the BQE every day, in accordance with metropolis information, a quantity that features roughly 13,000 vans. The route consists of the ageing triple cantilever construction that skirts Brooklyn Heights — a stacked set of roadways that has lengthy been in want of significant restore.
Weight sensors have been first put in alongside the Queens-bound lane of the construction, and have been approved by lawmakers in Albany to interface with license-plate cameras and routinely situation fines to vans carrying greater than the allowable per-axle weight or gross car weight. The DOT had initially deliberate to put in the system on the Staten Island-bound facet by the top of 2024, an improve officers say is coming this yr.
However the automated ticket system’s authorization is about to run out on December 1.
Transportation officers Tuesday known as on Albany to re-authorize and develop this system, permitting for it for use on different sections of street below NYC DOT’s auspices.
As beforehand reported, work to overtake the triple cantilever is anticipated to start in 2028.
Initially Revealed: March 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST
