A new report released this week by the New York City Department of Transportation details potential upgrades to the 12-mile stretch of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in Brooklyn.

The 154-page report outlines intersection redesigns, repurposed space under the highway, capping parts of the roadway to create new public space as well as adding bike lanes and pedestrian walkways.

The report comes following two years of community engagement with organizations like the Red Hook Initiative.

"A lot of seniors people with disabilities, parents with young children find it really difficult as you can see, to cross," said Carolyn Ferguson, with the Red Hook Initiative.

News 12 met Ferguson near a stretch of the BQE that is raised on Hamilton Avenue.

Pedestrians are often dodging traffic at crosswalks and noise pollution is high as construction on the bridge is combined with traffic noise.

"We would like to see more green space, some bike routes," said Ferguson.

Some projects are already underway while others will require additional studies, community engagement and funding.

One of the most dramatic plans included in the report is to cap a portion of the BQE that lies in a trench in Williamsburg.

The design concept for "Marcy Green" would cap the BQE from Division Avenue to Borinquen Place.

A rendering shows the cap would create a new public space that includes a playground.

The DOT said in its report that plan would reduce traffic noise and pollution.

"We actually have one of the highest asthma rates because of the highway," said Maria Fernanda Pulido, of El Puente.

El Puente was another organization that engaged with the DOT during the study, and is one of 17 organizations along the corridor that have joined to form the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Environmental Justice Coalition.

The coalition sees the DOTs report as a small first step towards environmental justice, but they worry many of these plans will take years or even decades to be completed.

"Yet our communities are facing the impacts of this infrastructure today not decades from now," said Pulido.

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Environmental Justice Coalition wants to see community centered environmental justice centered projects along the BQE.