BQE redesign options include structures to connect Brooklyn Heights to Brooklyn Bridge park

City officials are rolling out a variety of options for redesigning and rebuilding the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near the Brooklyn Heights Promenade — including a terrace structure that would include better walkways between the promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The options also include a full replacement of the highway that would also better connect the Heights and the park below — but that would likely mean more inconvenience for nearby residents.

Vehicles drive on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway beneath the Brooklyn Heights promenade.

The projected timeline for completion of the project is 2032, with officials predicting Tuesday that immediate repairs could begin as soon as next year.

Those repairs are needed due to corroding steel, which city Transportation Department officials said in 2019 posed a risk of collapse in some sections as soon as 2024.

When Transportation Department officials unveiled the latest plans to reporters Tuesday — and during a public workshop on how to best address the highway’s deteriorating conditions — they assured that the structure is not at risk of collapse.

Tuesday’s workshop was a follow-up to an initial workshop held in October, when the planning process was in an earlier phase. A third workshop is expected to take place before winter’s end, officials said.

Officials’ presentation to reporters on Tuesday included several potential options for an end product, but one official said so far the city has not yet affixed a price tag to any of them.

The goal, for now, is to get more feedback from the public, refine the plans and present those at the third workshop early next year, the officials said.

The timeline for planning and actual construction work is based on the city’s ability to tap into federal money made available by President Biden’s infrastructure spending bill, as well as the environmental review process, which is projected to kick off by the middle of 2023.

Last year, former Mayor Bill de Blasio opted for a relatively short-term fix — a patch-up job intended to keep the 72-year-old expressway in working condition for another 20 years. Upon taking office, Mayor Adams scrapped those plans, choosing a more permanent overhaul instead.

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