Fourteen years ago, the New York State Thruway Authority proposed a plan to replace the then-44-year-old Tappan Zee Bridge, a 6,014-ft-long, seven-lane crossing carrying Interstates 87 and 287 over the Hudson River. That proposal followed decades of Band-Aid work to keep the bridge viable, including a $20.8-million panel rehabilitation in 1997 (ENR 6/9/97 p. 19). The cost of a replacement, the agency estimated, would be $4 billion. The time line was forecast for 10 years.
两年后，即2002年，环境审查过程开始了。在2011年，它仍在进行中。管理局执行董事托马斯·麦迪逊（Thomas Madison Jr.他补充说：“很棒的是，我们没有砍掉任何角落。”
In October of that year, the White House designated the bridge as a so-called Dashboard project—one of the initial projects of "national or regional significance" that would undergo an expedited review based on the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness' recommendations for improving the federal permitting and review process.
两个月后，纽约州立法机关通过了一项法律，允许设计建造某些基础设施项目，包括Tappan Zee Bridge。18luck官网不到一年后，该州申请了15亿美元的运输基础设施融资和创新法（TIFIA）贷款，并与14个工会达成了项目劳动协议。
麦迪逊说，多亏了仪表板，州机构能够重新启动环境影响声明流程并在11个月内完成，而不是大约7年。麦迪逊说，联邦和州的环境审查程序于2012年9月共同完成。麦迪逊说，高级官员的指导委员会每周开会。他说：“在出现问题时，将联邦公路政府在那里就很棒。”
代理执行委员会的其他利益相关者also were there, adds John Porcari, then-deputy secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and now with Parsons Brinckerhoff. They formed a "rapid response" team that front-loaded involvement of all stakeholders, including the public. The team ran the state and federal environmental reviews simultaneously, along with the TIFIA application and the Army Corps of Engineers' permit processes, Porcari says.
The experience will inform future efforts to reform the federal and state procedures, say Porcari and Madison, respectively. "It is hard work and requires organizational cultural changes," adds Porcari.
The key was political will, largely on the part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). Madison and Porcari credit Cuomo with pushing for the Dashboard designation and the design-build law. Political will was also crucial at the federal level. "This is a bipartisan effort for process reform," says Porcari
