On the Gowanus Expressway...again

Ugh. Never mind about learning from past mistakes. NY Post reports on DOTs latest Gowanus Expressway Tunnel - think Big Dig, but Brooklyn. What could the City do with the $12.8 billion instead? Tear it down, build mass transit (est. at $2.4 billion in 1994), put in affordable and mixed-income housing, create economic empowerment zones to spur on niche manufacturing industries, and build up some of the public spaces so that people have a lot to do when they get there between working, living and visiting via public transit. I'm just tossing out rough numbers there, but I think you might still have a couple billion dollars left, after my proposed plan. The main problem with this plan is that it's proposed in isolation...what other development projects are going on in this area that might make the tunnel a success?

Gothamist has looked it up.