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Showing posts with label hudson valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hudson valley. Show all posts
Sunday, August 22, 2021

The people who had no reason to leave the city

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If you read some accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic, you'll come across the idea that people "fled the cities" en masse - that ...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Driving to the walkway

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Among the many crazy things about the new Tappan Zee Bridge, one of the craziest is the way that some environmentalists seem to melt into so...
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

What do low Tappan Zee Bridge tolls mean for you?

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Do you drive to work across the bridge? Hooray! Your commute from your house in Rockland with the big yard to the office park in Westchest...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

The Eighth Borough

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Map: mapsof.net Some things that have been called the sixth borough of New York City: Philadelphia Governor's Island The New York Ci...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Five rail-trails we'd like to see reactivated

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Last month, the (Greater) Detroit Free Press told us of a section of trail the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (near Marquette ) that had once b...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Rockland County is not being short-changed by the MTA

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Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef has been complaining for years that his county pays more to the Metropolitan Transportation Autho...
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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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Why we shouldn't extend Metro-North on the Hudson Line

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Mid Hudson News reports that Metro-North is still no longer considering extending service to northern Dutchess County. I'm not sure wh...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Escaping the Tappan Zee bridge toll death spiral

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In January, Charlie Komanoff warned of a "Tappan Zee Death Spiral," similar to what happened to passenger rail in the middle of t...
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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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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Why we need walkable, transit-oriented suburbs

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You regularly hear transit and livable streets advocates talking in terms of an opposition between "urbanists" who want transit an...
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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, March 5, 2012

The transportation-land use cycle, illustrated

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The transportation-land use cycle , illustrated by the Village of Piermont, NY and its environs: The road builders say, "Everyone wan...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

About that value gap...

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Ben Kabak picked up on an interesting story: Cambridge Systematics has just completed an analysis of the 2010 MTA budget on commission for...
Monday, February 13, 2012

We could have "BRT on the bridge" tomorrow

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The new site set up by the Tri-state Transportation Campaign is brtonthebridge.org . I happen to prefer my own site, thetappanzeebridgeisaca...
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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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Thursday, January 19, 2012

How the Tappan Zee Bridge hurts existing transit

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It's become the standard position for environmentalists, transit advocates and anyone else who opposes the Governor's heavy-handed r...
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