NY Metropolis begins ‘weigh-in-motion’ effort on Brooklyn-Queens Ex’method

Beginning Thursday, newly put in expertise will likely be checking vans to make sure they’re inside authorized weight limits on a portion of certainly one of New York Metropolis’s main highways.

Town has put in “weigh-in-motion” sensors to establish and ultimately positive obese vans on a part of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. 

In line with the workplace of Mayor Eric Adams, below the brand new automated enforcement program, sensors will decide the burden of a given car on the city-owned parts of the BQE and sync with license plate cameras to difficulty citations to these discovered to be in violation of weight limits outlined in state and federal legislation. The brand new program will kick off for Queens-bound site visitors with a 90-day warning interval starting Thursday, Aug. 10. Then, starting Nov.8, obese vans will likely be topic to a $650 positive per violation.

The burden-in-motion program on the BQE applies to the part of freeway from the neighborhood of Atlantic Avenue to Sands Avenue in Brooklyn. 

Infrastructure will likely be put in for Staten-Island sure site visitors this yr, with the identical 90-day warning interval going down earlier than violations are issued.

A press release from the mayor’s workplace stated the brand new program expands the town’s efforts to implement state legal guidelines designed to guard the lifespan of roads and bridges, and it builds on ongoing focused enforcement efforts by the New York Metropolis Police Division in addition to metropolis DOT’s observe file of administering profitable automated site visitors enforcement packages.

Extra details about truck weight limits and the weigh-in-motion program is offered on-line.

“New York Metropolis is main the nation in defending and reimagining our crucial infrastructure, and this first-in-the-nation weigh-in-motion program will likely be a crucial device not solely to guard the roadway but in addition to help our aggressive efforts to re-envision a safer and greener BQE,” stated Mayor Adams. “The BQE is a crucial driver of our total area’s economic system, and we are going to implement the legislation to maintain our metropolis’s restoration shifting full pace forward.”

Town’s DOT is partnering with the trucking trade to coach truck operators concerning the new automated weight restrict enforcement, with the purpose of stopping obese autos from ending up on the town’s roadways within the first place. DOT can also be working with the NYPD and different companions to establish and goal enforcement alongside various corridors that obese vans could attempt to use instead.