Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Tappan Zee Bridge

Tappan Zee Draft EIS Underscores Cuomo Admin’s Disregard for Transit

By Noah Kazis | Jan 25, 2012 | 2 Comments

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 […]

Fourteen North Westchester Municipalities Join Tappan Zee Transit Coalition

By Noah Kazis | Jan 24, 2012 | 8 Comments

Governor Cuomo, your neighbors have something to tell you. A consortium of 14 Westchester municipalities, including Cuomo’s own village of Mt. Kisco, has passed a resolution calling on the governor to put public transportation back into the plans for a new Tappan Zee Bridge. As reported in Mobilizing the Region, the North Westchester Energy Action […]

Thruway Director: Private Financing for Tappan Zee Not a Done Deal

By Noah Kazis | Jan 10, 2012 | 4 Comments

While predicting that work on the new Tappan Zee Bridge could start as early as this summer, incoming Thruway Authority executive director Tom Madison revealed at confirmation hearings yesterday that financing for the new bridge is still very much a work in progress. “At this moment, as we sit here, the complete financial plan has […]

Electeds and Advocates: Tappan Zee Needs Transit From the Start

By Noah Kazis | Dec 15, 2011 | 3 Comments

Support for transit on the new Tappan Zee bridge — built up over a decade of consensus building and 280 public meetings — runs deep and broad in the Hudson Valley. Though Governor Andrew Cuomo is already rushing forward with plans to build the bridge without any transit option, 11 local elected officials from both parties […]

Transit Union Leader Urges Labor to Back Transit on the New Tappan Zee

By Noah Kazis | Dec 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

Despite widespread opposition, Governor Andrew Cuomo is plowing forward with plans to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge without transit. Even so, there’s still no plan for how to pay for the bridge. Cuomo has proposed that union pension funds put up some of the money, but there’s been no explanation of how those pension […]

Cuomo’s DOT Gets Cracking on a Tappan Zee Without Transit

By Noah Kazis | Dec 12, 2011 | 6 Comments

Despite intense opposition from nearly every local elected official and a total lack of public input on the new design, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Department of Transportation are moving forward with plans to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge without transit. On Friday, the state submitted an amendment to the TIP, the list […]

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