DOT deals blow to Gowanus Tunnel hopes
Chuck Otey's Pro Bono Barrister
Twenty years ago, half a million residents in west Brooklyn welcomed a proposed development as an infrastructure miracle in the making! The proposed Gowanus Tunnel was seen by man as a virtual breath of fresh air that would replace the rusty, dilapidated, pollution-spewing Gowanus Expressway with five square miles of livable, tax-producing property.
This popular innovation, backed enthusiastically by the Regional Plan Association’s Al Appleton, as well as elected officials and community leaders up and down the West Brooklyn Corridor, seems to have been stalled. Why?
Maybe it’s been killed by a thousand knives, fashioned and formed by the collective heat of contractors’ political contributions.