Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject

Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject (Rivergate Regionals Collection)

The State of New York is now building one of the worldâ€™s longest, widest, and most expensive bridgesâ€”the new Tappan Zee Bridgeâ€”stretching 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 behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning and politics centered around this bridge. He reveals valuable lessons for those trying to tackle complex public policies while also confirming our worst fears about government dysfunction.
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Drawing on his extensive experience planning megaprojects, interviews with more than a hundred key figuresâ€”including governors, agency heads, engineers, civic advocates, and business leadersâ€”and extraordinary access to internal government records, Plotch tells a compelling story of high-stakes 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 publicâ€™s 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.Â
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Politics Across the Hudson continues where Robert Caroâ€™s The Power Broker left off and illuminates the power struggles involved in building New Yorkâ€™s 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.Â
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Country USA
Brand Rutgers University Press
Manufacturer Rutgers University Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780813572499
ReleaseDate 2015-07-06

Country	USA
Brand	Rutgers University Press
Manufacturer	Rutgers University Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780813572499
ReleaseDate	2015-07-06

Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject (Rivergate Regionals Collection)

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