Hold that TZ update!
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- April
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On Wednesday, we got word at the newspaper that there would be a joint meeting of the Tappan Zee Bridge Stakeholders’ Committee and Stakeholders’ Advisory Working Groups on April 28 in Tarrytown.
Today, we got the snail-mail version. Like the e-mail on Wednesday, it said the agenda would include “a discussion on preliminary results.”
Results of what?
Well, according to the new timetable for the decision-making on the Tappan Zee Bridge / I-287 Corridor project’s environmental review, we’re supposed to learn in May whether the bridge will be rehabilitated or rebuilt and the mode of mass transit that will cross it.
Naturally, that business about “preliminary results” got our juices flowing. In casual conversation Thursday, County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef seemed to think we might be hearing some decisions at this joint meeting.
But wait.
This afternoon, we got another e-mail, signed by Michael Anderson of the state Department of Transportation, who is the Project team leader for the environmental review, which also involves Metro-North Railroad and the state Thruway Authority.
The April 28th meeting, the e-mail says, “is postponed until further notice.”
We’ll be trying to find out whether that means results that looked firm enough to talk about on Wednesday aren’t so solid anymore or whether this is just another stumble in the public relations processes surrounding the project.
Stay tuned.
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on Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pm by Bob Baird.
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