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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.

Another option they recommended was a capped highway.

They recommend work to repair a dangerous stretch of the BQE begin immediately, and the elimination of 1/3 of the roadway's lanes.

The Mayor's Expert Panel is expected to give its recommendation in the fall, and the City Council is bringing on their own experts to review it.

The panel will "evaluate underlying project assumptions and review existing proposals," including no-build and reduced capacity options.