Comments on Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens: Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel Awakes From Bloomberg-...

I'd love to see this go through. Maybe I'll have ...

2007-10-18T08:39:00.000-07:00

I'd love to see this go through. Maybe I'll have a chance to see it by the time I'm dead.

ocean ave guy, I think so. At least some truck tr...

2007-10-18T07:43:00.000-07:00

ocean ave guy, I think so. At least some truck traffic coming into Brooklyn across the Verrazano would be diverted to rail.

Of course, you're local deliveries would still be by truck, but the through traffic would be eliminated. That's huge.

I live on Caton Ave in Brooklyn , which receives a...

2007-10-17T19:40:00.000-07:00

I live on Caton Ave in Brooklyn , which receives a huge amount of truck traffic along Route 27, a very residential street. Do you think this will reduce truck traffic in my area?

Thanks for the specificity . . . I was writing thi...

2007-10-17T18:57:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the specificity . . . I was writing this in a hurry today and couldn't recall exactly the detour that trains are forced to take to get east of the Hudson.

I agree, this must be done.

The Selkirk Hurdle is the reason that there is so ...

2007-10-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

The Selkirk Hurdle is the reason that there is so much truck traffic clogging our city. A freight train in New Jersey (or anywhere else in the continental U.S. south of west of NJ) has to travel 280 miles out of its way to get to NYC, Long Island or Southern New England. This project MUST go forward.