Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Tappan Zee Bridge

Public-Private Partnerships Won’t Solve New York’s Transpo Funding Crisis

By Noah Kazis | Dec 5, 2011 | 7 Comments

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.” It also happens […]

DOT Chief Claims Cuomo “Not Slowing Down Transit” on Tappan Zee

By Noah Kazis | Nov 17, 2011 | 6 Comments

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. Here’s McDonald, quoted twice by Transportation Nation’s Kate Hinds: […]

New York Can’t Afford to Build a Tappan Zee Bridge With No Transit

By Noah Kazis | Nov 1, 2011 | 6 Comments

According to the State of New York, spending $5.2 billion on a new Tappan Zee Bridge is affordable, but spending another $1 billion for a 30-mile bus rapid transit corridor is a bridge too far. Affordability, of course, is subjective. If the state were truly broke, Governor Andrew Cuomo might decide he had to close […]

Hudson Valley Elected Officials Blast Decision to Take Transit Off Tappan Zee

By Noah Kazis | Oct 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

After nine years of study and 280 meetings, New York State had reached the conclusion that the replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge needed to include transit: both a Metro-North extension and a new cross-county bus rapid transit system. Up until quite recently, state agencies forcefully argued that only transit could improve mobility between Westchester […]

Tappan Zee Docs Rescued From Memory Hole Say New Bridge Needs Transit

By Noah Kazis | Oct 27, 2011 | 8 Comments

After a public outcry, New York State has restored the extensive library of documents generated by nine years of study and public outreach surrounding the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge. Hundreds of pages had disappeared from the project website following the decision by the state and federal governments to scrap transit from the […]

Who Killed Transit on the New Tappan Zee? Feds and State DOT Won’t Say.

By Noah Kazis | Oct 24, 2011 | 26 Comments

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. Two weeks ago, each of the four alternatives for replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge included a new […]

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