What’s the difference between the Berlin Wall and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway?

Both divide their cities. Only one is still standing, the BQE. It kills people with pollution, asthma, and car crashes.

Standing next to the BQE in the photo below is the former Mayor of Milwaukee, John Norquist. When he was Chair and President of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU.org), Norquist founded the program Highways to Boulevards, now called Freeways Without Futures.

He and I wrote an op-ed for the New York Daily News called Buck the BQE.

Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist standing in the DMZ next to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

The print version of “Buck the BQE” was called “A highway that hurts NYC.”

About John Massengale

Architect, Urbanist, Author, Educator
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