For As soon as, Good Information In regards to the B.Q.E.

Good morning. It’s Tuesday. At present we’ll get an replace on sensors that may inform when vans on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway are chubby. We’ll additionally get particulars on a responsible plea by a instructor at a Brooklyn prep college who was accused of soliciting lewd photographs and movies from college students on Snapchat.

Nearly nobody ever has something optimistic to say concerning the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The uncommon exception is a brand new report from the town’s Division of Transportation.

The report says nothing concerning the common complaints — too-narrow lanes, too many potholes, too-frequent slowdowns. Its major discovering is that fewer too-heavy vans are heading towards Queens from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

Metropolis transportation officers credit score hidden sensors, primarily digital scales underneath the pavement. The sensors can spot vans that weigh greater than laws enable. Town says that the variety of chubby automobiles dropped 60 p.c after the Division of Transportation started sending out violation notices based mostly on readings from the sensors, together with $650 fines.

“The outcomes converse for themselves,” stated Ydanis Rodriguez, the transportation commissioner. Within the report, he wrote that the “unimaginable effectiveness” of the sensors confirmed how they “may very well be expanded to guard and lengthen the life span of different transportation infrastructure.”