‘Rather than waiting for the next disaster to happen, we must shift our focus from conducting emergency repairs to proactively building resilient infrastructure.’
The agenda includes ‘capping sunken highways to reconnect our neighborhoods; recommending areas for permanent pedestrianizing and … a model to reconfigure New York City’s streets to prioritize people over vehicles.’
‘The Gowanus expressway, which disrupts the street level experience of so many of our city’s most charming, most quickly-growing residential neighborhoods, is an aging remnant of a bygone era.’