The variety of obese vans crossing the creakiest part of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway has been greater than halved by the set up of obese automobile sensors, metropolis transportation officers introduced Tuesday.
Starting in November 2023, the town has used automated sensors on the Queens-bound facet of the BQE triple-cantilever in downtown Brooklyn to evaluate fines to obese vans.
An evaluation of a years value of knowledge exhibits that obese crossings of the triple-cantilever have fallen by 60% because the automated fines started — a mean of three,041 obese vans every month, down from 7,920 a month previous to this system starting.
“I hope our productive partnership with legislative leaders and the Governor to bring weigh-in-motion to New York City, and the results it has yielded, can serve as a national model for other cities and states, including the rest of New York State,” metropolis transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez stated in an announcement.
Some 130,000 autos traverse the BQE every day, based on metropolis knowledge, a quantity that features roughly 13,000 vans. The route contains the growing older triple cantilever construction that skirts Brooklyn Heights — a stacked set of roadways that has lengthy been in want of significant restore.
Weight sensors have been first put in alongside the Queens-bound lane of the construction, and have been approved by lawmakers in Albany to interface with license-plate cameras and routinely challenge fines to vans carrying greater than the allowable per-axle weight or gross automobile weight. The DOT had initially deliberate to put in the system on the Staten Island-bound facet by the tip of 2024, an improve officers say is coming this yr.
However the automated ticket system’s authorization is ready to run out on December 1.
Transportation officers Tuesday referred to as on Albany to re-authorize and develop this system, permitting for it for use on different sections of street below NYC DOT’s auspices.
As beforehand reported, work to overtake the triple cantilever is predicted to start in 2028.
Initially Printed: March 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST
