Head of BQE panel describes ‘daunting task’ ahead
Carlo Scissura, chair of the 17-member panel appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to evaluate options for the massive, $4 billion reconstruction of the BQE, said on Tuesday that the scope of the project “is much deeper and more intricate than I think anyone ever imagined.”
Scissura made it clear that the job of the BQE panel is not to specifically evaluate the numerous alternate proposals submitted by community organizations, officials and design firms, but to look at the realities of the BQE and decide what “can actually be built there.”
“Our job is not … to review any plans that are out there,” he told the Brooklyn Eagle.
“We may look at them, we will be happy to think about them, but we were not brought together to review plans. We were brought together to look at facts, to understand the roadway and come up with ideas of what realistically can happen in this roadway,” Scissura said.