"We've noticed there is significant travel demand between and among Brooklyn and Queens, said Jordan Smith, IBX project director, adding that environmental review is a milestone for the project. It's a process that requires the MTA to take a hard look at what potential environmental impacts could result from the IBX project. Any identifiable environmental issues would then go through a mitigation phase, run by multiple city, state and federal agencies, Smith detailed."
"While the MTA tried to focus the meeting on environmental scoping the act of analyzing potential environmental impacts attendees overwhelmingly voiced their opposition to the entire project, or at least the parts of the railway that would run through their neighborhoods. At the top of the list of concerns was upzoning, which would likely attract more people to the relatively quiet parts of northern Queens."
More than 100 Middle Village and nearby residents attended a public meeting to challenge plans for a nearly $6 billion, 14-mile IBX light-rail connecting Queens and Brooklyn without touching Manhattan. MTA representatives said the project has entered environmental review and is in design contract, arguing it will provide fast, direct transit between the boroughs and respond to significant travel demand. The environmental review will assess potential impacts and route any issues through mitigation led by city, state and federal agencies. Residents voiced broad opposition, highlighting upzoning and potential neighborhood disruption as primary concerns.
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