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LimeyYank91 t1_j0v2eee wrote

Wonder what the cost would be of burying i-78 under 13th st, disconnecting the tunnel from downtown (maybe an on-ramp at Monmouth?).

Get a lot of commuter traffic off of local streets, and takes stop lights off of i-78.

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Would that be a $10bn project?

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What would the land value be in the area between 10th and 18th st? That whole area has been starved by the tunnel entrance and is a bunch of gas stations and car-centric retail. How much wealth could be unlocked by converting that into a dense neighborhood if the commuters are all buried away?

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donnie_trampovic t1_j0wn12l wrote

The article mentioned that there was a plan to replace a portion of BQE in Brooklyn with a tunnel at an estimated cost of $11B. I would guess it would be comparable to that.

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