PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Matthew Paolucci, Student at Queens College, on QueensLink Project
3:19:55
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Matthew Paolucci, representing a student research group, advocates for the QueensLink transit project in Queens. He emphasizes the importance of including transit areas in the Department of Parks' design for the Queensway Linear Park and highlights the need for improved north-south transportation capacity in Queens.
- Urges City Council members to communicate with the Department of Parks to ensure transit areas are included in the Queensway Linear Park design
- Criticizes the billion-dollar expansion of the Van Wyck Expressway and argues for the QueensLink as a more efficient solution
- Stresses the opportunity to expand north-south transportation capacity without displacing homes or boring tunnels
Matthew Paolucci
3:19:55
Can you guys hear me?
3:19:57
We can hear you.
3:20:00
Hello?
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Perfect.
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My name is Matthew Palucci.
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I'm calling today on behalf of the research group could be there today in person, but student affairs, and I'm calling behalf on that organization.
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We represent over a dozen campuses, over tens of thousands of students across the state for the need to push forward Queensland through a study and then eventual inclusion in the MTA 5 year, capital program.
3:20:31
But there is something that can be done today.
3:20:33
A lot of the conversation that happened earlier in this meeting when we were talking about Queensland, it was what the MTA can do.
3:20:41
But right now, the Department of Parks is under advanced design for the first section of the Queensway Linear Park.
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It is essential, absolutely essential, that city council members who support Queens QueensLink are in communication with people from Department of Parks, making sure that when they are designing for this first section of park that they have received city money and federal money for, that they include in their design areas for transit.
3:21:08
It is absolutely essential.
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I want to get that point across first and foremost.
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2nd, I wanna talk about capacity of north south roadway here.
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Right now, the state is overtaking, another $1,000,000,000 expansion of the Bandwick Expressway.
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15 years ago, there were select bus service improvements on Woodhaven Boulevard.
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Arguably, traffic has gone worse.
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There is such a man or no stop travel in Queens, yet we don't have a north south.
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Absolutely massive.
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And yet here is an opportunity right in front of us.
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The right of way is there.
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We wouldn't have to take a single home.
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You wouldn't have to bore a tunnel under any houses.
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The opportunity is there to expand north south transportation capacity.
3:21:56
10 foot.
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10 foot.
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Not that
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
3:21:59
in another
Matthew Paolucci
3:22:00
way.
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And your capacity by
Juan Garcia
3:22:03
Thank you.
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My time has expired.
Matthew Paolucci
3:22:05
Space on the park.
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Most of the time in the outer boroughs, the concern is thank you.
3:22:10
Please push the parks to include, Bloomberg Queenling in the editor.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
3:22:15
Thank you.
Matthew Paolucci
3:22:16
First design.
3:22:16
Thank you.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
3:22:17
Thank you.
