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Showing posts with label governor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label governor. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Our third world airport

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I remember when Joe Biden remarked that LaGuardia Airport felt like the Third World to him. I remember thinking, "What the fuck is thi...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Where is the roads and bridges settlement?

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It was a big con game, and many of the biggest con artists believed their own hype. "It can never go down!" they cried. They del...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

The defeat of the power broker

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Robert Caro’s The Power Broker is one of the all-time classics of urbanism, assigned in many courses and read even by casual students of hi...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Carmageddon vs. Bridgegate

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The New Jersey Department of Transportation will shut down two lanes of the Pulaski Skyway on Saturday, and recently Sarah Gonzalez was on W...
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Saturday, February 2, 2013

If you care about the Northeast Corridor...

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Last week I mentioned that the Northeast Corridor between Washington, DC and New York City has a wealth of transit options , all of them gen...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

The Pulaski Skyway, a different "freeway without a future"?

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Earlier this year the Congress for the New Urbanism released a new version of its " Freeways without futures " list. I wholeheart...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Governor Cuomo, climate change and transit

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Nathan H. was following my train of thought when I wondered whether a politician - specifically, Governor Andrew Cuomo - could be a "ca...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Being a car guy in the age of transit

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It's well known that Governor Andrew Cuomo is a "car guy." In a 2010 Esquire profile , he and his brother Chris discussed th...
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Rebuilding better than before

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Since they began to realize how much the subway system had been damaged by the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy, leaders have been making st...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Greenwashing with recreation

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I got pretty annoyed this weekend listening to Lieutenant Governor Duffy blathering on to Alan Chartock about how Governor Cuomo loves the ...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

What's going to be cut to pay for the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement?

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I've been asking this question for a while. Remember that this is a bridge that shouldn't exist, and should be torn down and not re...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Gonna get fooled again, again?

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Three of the reasons that are most commonly cited for rebuilding the Tappan Zee Bridge are the current bridge's narrow lanes, no shoulde...
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Saturday, April 7, 2012

The state budget's bogus parity

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Every once in a while the debate over the New York State budget turns briefly to transportation, and we see where our leaders have their pri...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Who will stop the Tappan Zee boondoggle?

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Last week the Federal Highway Administration released two sets of documents relating to the Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction project. There...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The Tappan Zee Bridge and Transit: A look back

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This December 15 will be the hundredth anniversary of the completion of the first Tappan Zee Bridge in 1955. In honor of that occasion, we...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Getting Cuomo to do the right thing

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Transit and livable streets advocates are rightly frustrated with the way Andrew Cuomo has dealt with our issues as governor. He has not bee...