Thats ridiculous. reducing lanes on the BQE will make it worse.
It needs to be ADDED TO.
I drove it for decades commercially and personally.
DeBlasio is a communist koranus-licking moron.
Fastest way to reduce congestion is to BAN ALL CITY AND STATE GOVT passenger vehicles not used for emergencies.
MAKE ALL CITY & STATE EMPLOYEES take public transportation. When enough of them get raped and killed, maybe then they will also clean up the subways.
Notice that the image below only shows ONE direction of travel. They already built this road as a cantilever section where the northbound lanes run over the top of the southbound lanes because they can't fit a side-by-side alignment through this area under its CURRENT configuration.