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City engineers have warned the steel rebar inside the concrete of the highway's triple-cantilever is corroded, putting the entirety of the over 70-year-old structure at risk of failure.

The city is enforcing more weight limits but has yet to come up with a plan to fix the expressway's triple cantilever.

A new report from the city's transportation department lays out a slew of proposals to convert areas around the traffic-choked highway into spaces New Yorkers might actually enjoy.

After the city's crackdown began last year, the number of overweight trucks traveling on the Queens-bound side of the BQE's triple cantilever portion dropped 64%.

The Department of Transportation’s latest vision for the highway’s triple-cantilever structure in Brooklyn Heights stacks traffic lanes directly atop one another.

The Queens-bound side of the highway will close to traffic in Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo from June 1 to 3.

No cars will be allowed between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street from 2 a.m. on April 13 to 4 a.m. on April 15.

Each proposal would place the roadway in a slightly different position, leaving room to cap the highway with new greenspace. Each option would still have two lanes of traffic and leave a third lane for either a breakdown lane or for high occupancy vehicles.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the city, Carlos Scissura, head of the New York Building Congress, said.

The DOT warned of “substantial delays” starting Monday as a result of the lane reduction and asked motorists to consider public transportation instead.