Meet the 16 people who may decide the fate of the BQE
To finally bring a measure of urban planning to what has been a chaotic, whiplash-inducing BQE reconstruction planning process, Mayor Bill de Blasio last week announced a blue-ribbon panel of experts to look at options for the replacement of a 1.5-mile stretch of the decrepit highway. … These are the members of the BQE panel, under Carlo Scissura, chair. … [Kaan] Ozbay, a professor of civil engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, is director of C2SMART; the recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award; and one of the world’s top experts in modeling large scale complex transportation systems.