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05 Sep 2010
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DATE: June 18, 2010At this time, two different bills are moving through the legislature that seek to impose complete streets guidelines on transportation projects. Efforts have been made to amend these bill to reduce or eliminate their impact on local projects. The assembly bill is limited to DOT state projects and the Senate bill attempts to reduce the types of local projects that would be effected by language that limits the complete streets process to "facilities that are eligible for both federal and state funding and are subject to department of transportation oversight." The sponsor says that the intent is not to include 100% locally-funded projects (CHIPS) and only apply to larger, federally funded projects that are undertaken by the state DOT. In any event, the bills still pose many questions and may be amended further. Therefore, a memo was created and circulated to all legislators indicating that any final bill make clear that the decisions, as to the appropriateness of considering and pursue complete streets features, be solely up to local governments.
Please CLICK HERE to download a copy of the memo to send to your Senator and Assemblyman DATE: April 5, 2010Gov. Paterson is instituting a funding freeze which impacts highway project funding. A coalition of contracting groups vowed to file papers in state court calling on Governor Paterson to lift his funding freeze, which they contend threatens some 5,000 blue-collar jobs. The lawsuit threat came as fuming contractors blasted the embattled governor, who announced the unusual action Tuesday after failing to agree with lawmakers on how to close a $9.2 billion budget gap. "Candidly, we believe this governor has lost his ability to make rational decisions," said Mark Herbst, executive director of the Long Island Contractors' Association. Paterson's officials say the construction freeze could impact as many as 500 projects around the state. This protest by the contractors will complement our letter writing campaign and help put significant pressure on legislators especially those from downstate to get money flowing for transportation projects as soon as possible. We are asking the entire membership to contact legislators with letters and phone calls. The Town Superintendents are also planning to do the same. You can find a sample letter here. Thanks, |
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