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When Zoran Mamdani ran to be the mayor of New York City, he ran, as you may know, on big plans, big ideas that he talked about every chance he got, including on transportation.

Making buses free, and that's something that we will deliver.

Buses should be fast. We will make those buses

fast and free. But now that he is in office, there is another issue facing the mayor. That is not

buses, not housing, not schools. It's something Zoran Mamdani did not run on or talk about much in the

campaign. But it could become a defining

issue of his time in office, the BQE, the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, specifically a half-mile-long

stretch of this highway that is truly falling apart and is now his direct responsibility.

Everyone agrees something has to be done.

The question is what?

My name is Ian Koss. Welcome to the Big Dig Highway Tear Down tour. Today, what to do with the BQE?

And I'll just note that this highway we're talking about today is a truly bizarre, one-of-a-kind piece of infrastructure, Brooklyn's infamous triple cantilever.

Some of you will know exactly what I'm talking about. If you don't, I might suggest a quick

Google image search of the term triple cantilever. You'll see a three-level structure, about a half-mile

long built into a hillside,

with each level just hanging out in space with no support at all beneath that outer edge,

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