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Feds Reject Loan Application for Cuomo’s Transit-less Tappan Zee Bridge

By Noah Kazis | Apr 26, 2012 | 10 Comments

In a major rebuke to the Cuomo administration’s plans for a transit-less Tappan Zee Bridge, the federal government rejected New York State’s application for a low-interest federal loan yesterday. The loan, which would have been made under the popular TIFIA program, was an important component of Cuomo’s plans to finance the new Tappan Zee. Demand […]

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Five Ex-Secretaries Map Out a Communications Strategy For Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 24, 2012 | No Comments

If 80 percent of the American people agree that federal infrastructure investment will create jobs, and two-thirds say better infrastructure is important, why is the call for a robust transportation bill being made in whispers? And why is Congress already two and a half years late in producing one? There are many political reasons — […]

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Instead of Reclaiming a Despised Highway, New Haven Plans a Close Replica

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 26, 2012 | No Comments

The “most defacing scar from the 1960’s Urban Renewal era” — that’s how local advocates describe the Route 34 Expressway through downtown New Haven. Just about a year and a half ago, this small New England city won a TIGER grant to heal that scar. But another disfiguration may be growing in its place. The […]

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After 30 Years of Federal Support for Transit, Battle Lines are Redrawn

By Ben Goldman | Mar 13, 2012 | No Comments

Add Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff to the list of people saying that it’s premature to declare victory over the House’s attempts to cast transit into the abyss. Rogoff knows a thing or two about transportation bills: He was an aide on the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee for 20 years, during which time the federal […]

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DOT Issues Voluntary Guidelines for Driver-Distracting Electronics Systems

By Ben Goldman | Feb 21, 2012 | No Comments

Distracted driving has become one of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s banner issues under secretary Ray LaHood’s tenure, with agencies launching safety programs and awareness campaigns aimed at preventing the practice. Last week, LaHood stepped into new territory by recommending that cars be built to automatically disable potentially distracting electronic devices when in motion. The […]

Tappan Zee Costs $1.4 Billion More in Cuomo’s Loan App Than in Cuomo’s EIS

By Noah Kazis | Feb 15, 2012 | 2 Comments

As part of an application for a $2 billion federal loan to help pay for a replacement Tappan Zee Bridge that would double the width of the current bridge, the Cuomo administration has put forward a new and much-higher estimate of the project’s cost: $6 billion. That’s $800 million higher than previous press reports had […]

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