A major legal hurdle to tearing down the interstate 81 viaduct through Syracuse, New York, and replacing it with an urban boulevard was cleared Friday when a New York court overturned a ruling blocking the project.
The only legal route now for Renew 81, a group opposing the “new urbanism” project, would be to seek relief from the New York Court of Appeals, the highest in the state.
In a unanimous decision, a five-judge panel overturned a lower court decision that a new environmental impact...
Plans to tear down a section of Interstate 81 that goes through a low-income area of Syracuse, New York, and replace its key section with an urban boulevard, routing most truck traffic around the city, appear to have become reality.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has the Syracuse project in the recent reveal of her $32.8 billion State Capital Plan.
It is a project that the Trucking Association of New York opposes in its current form, according to Kendra Hems, executive director of the TANY. In an...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/demolition-of-elevated-i-81-through-syracuse-looks-set-to-go-ahead
In the wake of what has been described as a snowbound traffic jam from hell on Virginia’s Interstate 95, a state senator is set to introduce legislation that would restrict trucks to the right lanes on much of the commonwealth’s interstate highways when frozen precipitation is falling.
David Marsden, a Democratic state senator from northern Virginia who also is chairman of the Senate’s transportation committee, told FreightWaves that the introduction of legislation would probably come next week....
Lawmakers responsible for funding agencies within the executive branch publish documents – called congressional reports – that accompany the funding legislation to give agencies a sense of where some in Congress stand on issues that do not make it into the bill.
In the case of the fiscal year 2022 budget for the Department of Transportation, the House Appropriations Committee recently provided its list of recommendations that it wants DOT to tackle next year. While DOT and its modal agencies are...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-does-congress-want-to-make-trucking-safe-in-2022
Buried in the U.S. House and Senate versions of highway reauthorization legislation currently being negotiated are provisions that would allow billions of dollars to be spent dismantling portions of the interstate highway system without replacing the lost transportation capacity.
The provisions — “Reconnecting Neighborhoods” in the House version, “Reconnecting Communities” in the Senate — reflect the Biden administration’s goals of using infrastructure funding to address historic racial and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/will-connecting-neighborhoods-disconnect-trucking
Tearing down a viaduct on Interstate 81 through Syracuse, New York — part of a movement loosely called the “new urbanism” — could force some trucks to loop around the city’s eastern suburbs. And it is getting closer to reality.
The push to replace the elevated stretch of I-81 stalled during the pandemic. But an allocation by the state of New York and a recent visit to Syracuse by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg makes clear that the plan has significant backing, increasing its...