The State of New York is now building one of the world's longest,
widest, and most expensive bridges - the new Tappan Zee Bridge -
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. Drawing on
his extensive experience planning megaprojects, interviews with
more than a hundred key figures - including governors, agency
heads, engineers, civic advocates, and business leaders - 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
public'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. Politics Across the Hudson continues where Robert
Caro's The Power Broker left off and illuminates the power
struggles involved in building New York'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.
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