A protracted-dreamed-about line that may hyperlink Brooklyn and Queens through mild rail can start the environmental-review course of, Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced Wednesday. It’s a key step for the $5.5 billion Interborough Specific, which the state anticipates will finally transfer 160,000 riders each day alongside 14 miles of a little-used freight railway. The proposed megaproject would run between Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights, connecting to 17 subway traces, 50 bus routes and two Lengthy Island Rail Highway stations. The sunshine-rail line has been touted by officers as a “game-changer” for riders in areas of the town with restricted transit choices…
