Park Slope Construction, Traffic Reversal Slated To End In 2023: City

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A massive Park Slope construction project —and subsequent rerouting of traffic along a six-block stretch of Sixth Avenue — are slated to come to an end in fall 2023, officials told Patch.

News of an end date for the much-maligned BED798 comes several weeks after signs appeared along Sixth Avenue alerting locals that traffic would change direction between Prospect Place and Union Street "until further notice," Patch reported at the time.

The rerouting came at the behest of a local fire house and is also linked to the contested water main replacement project in northern Park Slope, the city's Department of Design and Construction said earlier this month.

Both the traffic reversal, and water main replacement project, should wrap up by fall 2023, a DDC spokesperson told Patch Thursday.

This will bring to an end to a years-long construction project that's been lambasted by neighbors.

BED798 was initially proposed as a three-year process needed to replace Park Slope's 100-plus year old water mains, which carry almost all of Southern Brooklyn's drinking water and have been leaking for years, according to the DDC.

Construction began in 2018 and has dragged on longer than expected because of the pandemic and "utility interference," a DDC spokesperson said.

The project is about 14 percent over budget, according to the spokesperson.

As locals told Patch in 2019, the project has also caused traffic, flooding, property damage and noise issues in the process.

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