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    "https://www.offramp.nyc/",
    "https://youtu.be/ijvRD5ouDDY?si=qDgFFuN4p8vHYRlv",
    "https://www.patreon.com/CityNerd",
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  "textContent": "New York is overdue to make a decision on the future of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. So, which way, Gotham? Double down on the insanely bad ideas of the Robert Moses era, or chart a new course?\n\n* * *\n\nIf you wan to get involved in decision-making about the future of the BQE, the new advocacy organization Off-Ramp NYC is a great place to plug in. Check them out here:\n\nhttps://www.offramp.nyc/\n\nAnd thanks to Liam Blank with Off-Ramp NYC for allowing use of several renderings of potential future visions of what the BQE could become. Check out more of Liam's work at: liamblank.com\n\n* * *\n\nThanks so much to Adam Paul Susaneck (Segregation By Design across several platforms) for allowing me to use the great before and after animations. For a great deep dive on the history of the BQE, check out his new documentary, \"The Story of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway,\" on YouTube.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ijvRD5ouDDY?si=qDgFFuN4p8vHYRlv\n\n* * *\n\nPatreon — a way to directly support my ability to talk about what I want to talk about every week, and get out to the cities I want to highlight. Much appreciation to all of you who are already patrons!\n\nhttps://www.patreon.com/CityNerd\n\n* * *\n\nResources:\n\n  * Los Angeles Times: L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick, Barboza and Schleuss, https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-freeway-pollution/\n\n  * For a comprehensive reckoning of the harmful externalities of car dependence: The paper, \"Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment\" by Patrick Miner, Barbara M. Smith, Anant Jani, Geraldine McNeill, and Alfred Gathorne-Hardy. Available on the web under a Creative Commons license! Link here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267#bb0390\n\n  * NYCDOT BQE Central Project https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/infrastructure/bqecentral.shtml\n\n  * NYCDOT BQE Corridor Vision https://bqevision.com/\n\n  * https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/26/nyregion/brooklyn-queens-expressway-new-york-highway.html\n\n  * https://www.mta.info/project/interborough-express\n\n  * https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-paris-transformed-hidalgo/\n\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nImages, mostly mine as usual, BUT:\n\n  * Thumbnail: View southwest along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade section of the BQE, viewed from Brooklyn Bridge Park By Famartin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149541639\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nInstagram: @nerd4cities\n\nBlueSky: @nerd4cities\n\nThreads: @nerd4cities\n\nLinkedIn: /raydelahanty\n\n* * *\n\nMusic:\nCityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)\n\n* * *\n\nBusiness Inquiries: thecitynerd@nebula.tv",
  "title": "Transportation as Atrocity: A Brief Investigation"
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