Tappan Zee Bridge
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Cuomo Plows Ahead on Transit-Free TZB, Heedless of Basic Questions
In its headlong rush to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge, the Cuomo administration still hasn't answered basic questions about why the project won't include transit or how it will be financed.
March 30, 2012
American Planning Association Chapter Demolishes Cuomo Tappan Zee Claims
The New York area's urban planning community issued a striking rebuke to the Cuomo administration over its plans for a new Tappan Zee Bridge last week. In a letter to the state Department of Transportation [PDF], the regional chapter of the American Planning Association, which represents 1,200 professional planners, challenged the Cuomo administration's claims about the project and urged the immediate restoration of transit infrastructure to plans for the bridge.
March 27, 2012
Tarrytown Joins Westchester Towns Calling on Cuomo to Build Transit on TZB
You can add Tarrytown to the growing list of Hudson Valley suburbs that want Governor Andrew Cuomo to include transit on the new Tappan Zee Bridge, reports Dani Simons at Mobilizing the Region.
March 26, 2012
Orange County, New Rochelle, Wesley Hills Join Push for TZB Transit
The calls for rapid transit on the Tappan Zee Bridge are coming from more places across the Hudson Valley. This week Orange County Executive Edward Diana joined his colleagues in Westchester and Rockland Counties to demand that bus rapid transit be built on the new Tappan Zee span. Local governments on both sides of the river, too, continue to sign on in support of new cross-county transit, which the Cuomo administration removed from the project, disregarding a decade of public planning.
March 15, 2012
Thruway Authority’s Tappan Zee “Fact-Check” Sets Cuomo’s Pants on Fire
Looks like the Cuomo administration is starting to feel the heat for taking transit out of plans for the new Tappan Zee Bridge. A press release yesterday from the Thruway Authority shows the agency looking a bit defensive about its transit-free bridge, which has been criticized by an ever-growing number of Hudson Valley residents, municipalities and elected officials.
March 1, 2012
Yonkers, Greenburgh, Dobbs Ferry Vote Unanimously For Tappan Zee Transit
Last night, hundreds of Rockland County residents gathered at the Palisades Mall to tell the Cuomo administration that a transit-free replacement Tappan Zee Bridge isn't acceptable. In Westchester, too, support for transit across the bridge is running high. Three more local governments have passed unanimous resolutions supporting Tappan Zee transit: the city of Yonkers, the town of Greenburgh and the village of Dobbs Ferry.
February 29, 2012
Packed House Tells Cuomo to Build a Tappan Zee With Transit
Support for transit ran high at the first of two public hearings on the Tappan Zee draft environmental impact statement at the Palisades Mall in Rockland last night.
February 29, 2012
Don’t Let Cuomo Greenwash His Cars-Only Tappan Zee Bridge
Governor Andrew Cuomo may have axed plans ten years in the making to build transit across the Tappan Zee Bridge, but hey, at least he promised to consider turning the old structure into a park, right?
February 24, 2012
More Questions Than Answers in Cuomo Admin’s Tappan Zee Thinking
A discussion of the plans for the new Tappan Zee Bridge by the state cabinet today makes clear one thing -- that the Cuomo administration continues to race to construction as fast as possible -- while leaving other facets more confused and contradictory than ever.
February 22, 2012
Cuomo Admin Silent as Media Questions Tappan Zee Fuzzy Math
As advocates for transit on the Tappan Zee Bridge take to the airwaves, the media are starting to ask questions about the Cuomo administration's ever-shifting and unexplained cost estimates for the project.
February 21, 2012