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Cuomo Willing to Wait for Tappan Zee Loan, But Not for Tappan Zee Transit
Using a federal loan to finance $2 billion of the cost of the Tappan Zee Bridge could delay construction work significantly, warns trade journal Project Finance today. Trading time for a low interest rate might save money, but it puts the lie to the Cuomo administration's claim that adding transit would unacceptably slow the Tappan Zee project.
February 16, 2012
Tappan Zee Plans Flunk New York’s Smart Growth Test
The Cuomo administration's plan for an extra-wide, transit-free Tappan Zee Bridge is exactly the kind of project that New York state's smart growth law is supposed to prevent.
January 25, 2012
Cuomo Primed to Splurge on Jumbo-Sized Tappan Zee With Extra Lanes
The Cuomo administration's plan for the new Tappan Zee Bridge, described in yesterday's draft environmental impact statement, is more than a missed opportunity to provide New Yorkers with faster and greener commutes using transit. It also foreshadows a potential environmental disaster, as the state prepares to spend huge sums on a span that can funnel much more traffic than the current bridge.
January 25, 2012
Tappan Zee Draft EIS Underscores Cuomo Admin’s Disregard for Transit
The Cuomo administration's latest thinking on the new Tappan Zee Bridge, contained in the draft environmental impact statement it released yesterday, reinforces the state's commitment to building a sprawl-inducing, highway-only bridge. The document not only dismisses bus rapid transit, but also clears the way for an enormous expansion of automobile capacity and makes a mockery of New York's statewide smart growth law. We'll be breaking down the DEIS in a series of posts today.
January 25, 2012
Public-Private Partnerships Won’t Solve New York’s Transpo Funding Crisis
Governor Andrew Cuomo sent out an "editorial" this weekend putting infrastructure investment at the center of his job creation agenda. In a rough outline, the governor touted public-private partnerships (or PPPs, as they're known) as a key mechanism to pay for "the repair and development of highways, bridges and major construction projects."
December 5, 2011
What If There Were Tolls on the BQE?
The state Department of Transportation announced yesterday the cancellation of plans to rebuild 5.3 miles of the BQE and the Gowanus Expressway. It wasn't a new round of freeway revolts that killed these projects but the state's busted transportation budget.
November 30, 2011
DOT Chief Claims Cuomo “Not Slowing Down Transit” on Tappan Zee
State transportation commissioner Joan McDonald deserves an award for chutzpah. In the face of overwhelming opposition from local elected officials to the state's decision to build the new Tappan Zee Bridge without transit, McDonald has, incredibly, taken the stance that the state did no such thing.
November 17, 2011
Who Killed Transit on the New Tappan Zee? Feds and State DOT Won’t Say.
Call it the mystery of the missing transit. One of the state's biggest transit projects, in the works for nearly a decade, was canceled overnight and no one will explain why, or even claim responsibility for the decision.
October 24, 2011
Will Cuomo Scrap Transit on the Tappan Zee and Just Widen the Highway?
For nine years, the state of New York has been studying how to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge. The bridge, which is more than 50 years old, requires ever more expensive repairs to stay structurally sound and was never intended to carry the volume of traffic that pours over it every day. Since 2002, an extensive public process has led to the development of four alternative plans for the Tappan Zee and the I-287 corridor. Each of them would rebuild the bridge, widen the roadway and include both a new Metro-North commuter rail line and bus rapid transit service across the bridge.
October 11, 2011
To Study Sheridan Teardown, City Pulls Back the Lens
When the state Department of Transportation studied removing the lightly-used Sheridan Expressway, it considered two scenarios. One predicted conditions with the Sheridan kept as is. The other imagined closing the highway to traffic without making any other changes -- simply fencing off the 1.25 mile structure.
July 22, 2011
