TOM MURPHY
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The early iteration of the FAIR PLAN pointed to a funding of an upgrade to the Belt Pkwy from the VNB to JFK to allow for trucks. This would aleviate congestion on the Gowanus(I-278).
Now it is missing. Instead, the new inclusion of repair funding from the PLAN revenues of I-278 below Brooklyn Heights (which had been funded by NYS as a NYS function but last year defunded by Gov Cuomo) has been substituted. The original NYS funding went to the new Tappan Zee Bridge. This is a clear attempt by Mr. Schwartz to enlist Gov. Cuomo as a PLAN supporter at NYC motorists' expense without the benefit of any upgrade to our local roads.
NYSDOT has informed the Sunset Park Brooklyn Community Board #7 that they have no funding to replace missing cladding and paint the entire of the Gowanus Expressway(NYS's longest bridge) when they complete structural steel support repairs. When this part of the re-build is done; they are done. They walk away, and leave a rusting hulk from Bay Ridge to the Hicks Street cut. This is intolerable and I think you ought to know.
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