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Politics Across The Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject (Rivergate Regionals Collection),Used
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Winner of the 2015 American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter Journalism AwardThe State of New York built one of the worlds longest, widest, and most expensive bridgesthe new Tappan Zee Bridgestretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. In Politics Across the Hudson, urban planner Philip Plotch offers a behindthescenes look at three decades of contentious planning and politics centered around this bridge, recently renamed for Governor Mario M. Cuomo, the state's governor from 1983 to 1994. He reveals valuable lessons for those trying to tackle complex public policies while also confirming our worst fears about government dysfunction.Drawing on his extensive experience planning megaprojects, interviews with more than a hundred key figuresincluding governors, agency heads, engineers, civic advocates, and business leadersand extraordinary access to internal government records, Plotch tells a compelling story of highstakes battles between powerful players in the public, private, and civic sectors. He reveals how state officials abandoned viable options, squandered hundreds of millions of dollars, forfeited more than three billion dollars in federal funds, and missed out on important opportunities. Faced with the publics unrealistic expectations, no one could identify a practical solution to a vexing problem, a dilemma that led three governors to study various alternatives rather than disappoint key constituencies.This revised and updated edition includes a new epilogue and more photographs, and continues where Robert Caros The Power Broker left off and illuminates the power struggles involved in building New Yorks first major new bridge since the Robert Moses era. Plotch describes how one governor, Andrew Cuomo, shrewdly overcame the seemingly insurmountable obstacles of onerous environmental regulations, vehement community opposition, insufficient funding, interagency battles, and overly optimistic expectations...
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