A new book examines the convoluted history of one of the country's most controversial infrastructure projects.
WNYC News provides coverage of a new book by Philip Mark Plotch, Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject. The article and radio coverage summarize the book's investigation of a project that has sparked several varieties of controversy on its path to completion.
For instance, "[Plotch] asserts it was only by employing various questionable strategies did New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally manage to get construction on the new bridge underway. Plotch writes that Cuomo exaggerated the number of jobs construction would create and portrayed what had been designed as a bus lane as an 'emergency access lane,' thereby streamlining the environmental review process."
The article includes a link to an interview with Plotch, broadcasted on WNYC.
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