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Showing posts with label tappan zee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tappan zee. Show all posts
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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Friday, January 18, 2013

We don't want a Frackin' Zee Bridge

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Environmental advocates are doing a great job educating people on how horrible hydraulic fracturing is - in particular, it means hundreds mo...
Monday, October 22, 2012

With TIFIA, a loss for "New York" would be a gain for transit

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Newsday reported that the competition for TIFIA loans is "stiff." It was presented as a challenge for New York: will another sta...
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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, September 17, 2012

The Tappan Zee Bridge is NOT structurally deficient

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If you haven't guessed, I'm kind of sick of writing about the Tappan Zee Bridge at this point. But I'm jumping back into the f...
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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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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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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Political realities

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I'm not a mind reader, so I don't know for sure why the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's Kate Slevin said , "we're n...
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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

Tappan Zee traffic volume: Don't pee on my back again!

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Yes, it's time for another episode in our "Don't pee on my back and tell me it's raining!" series about the Tappan Zee...

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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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Five reasons why the Tappan Zee sprawl should be stopped

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As I've discussed before, the Tappan Zee Bridge is a sprawl-generating machine . The sprawl created by this bridge in Orange, Rockland,...
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Five things we can do without rebuilding the Tappan Zee Bridge

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A lot of the arguments given for replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge present something that we want, or maybe even need, and then offer the brid...
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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...
Friday, December 23, 2011

100 Years of the Tappan Zee Bridge: 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...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Why not a longer "Tappan Zee High Line"?

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Everyone knows I've got serious misgivings about the rails-to-trails movement, especially when people pull the rails out of perfectly f...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Rockland County needs Strong Towns, and the bridge won't help

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Last week, Comptroller DiNapoli released an audit of Rockland County's finances. Much of the discussion of the audit has focused on t...
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