Sentences with phrase «tunnel option»

By including various tunnel options in a draft environmental impact statement, it will take an extra year to finish a study and recommend a preferred option, according to state transportation officials.

Outgoing Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is urging state officials to not consider a contentious tunnel option for replacing the deteriorating stretch of Interstate 81 in the city.

During his State of the State stop in Syracuse Wednesday morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the state will conduct a study to determine the feasibility of tunnel options to replace the I - 81 viaduct in Syracuse.

Outgoing Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner on Monday urged state officials to not consider a contentious tunnel option for replacing the deteriorating stretch of Interstate 81 in the city.

On Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo added the previously dismissed tunnel option to an environmental impact statement being prepared about the highway's replacement options.

The study said tunnel options are feasible, which contrasts the analysis the New York State Department of Transportation made last year.

In 2016, the New York State Department of Transportation narrowed those options down to two from the 16 originally presented in 2014, eliminating several tunnel options from consideration.

«If there is a viable tunnel option or hybrid option that has a community grid above it, that's something we would have to consider as workable,» said Barry Lentz, who is a member of the Moving People Transportation Coalition and an advisory committee that has been giving the DOT feedback on its plans.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's on Wednesday announced that transportation officials will include a contentious tunnel option in a draft environmental impact statement as part of the Interstate 81 replacement project.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday confirmed that a contentious tunnel option for the replacement of a raised portion of Interstate 81 in Syracuse will be considered in a draft environmental impact statement.

Miner and other local politicians have frequently expressed frustration after New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January announced the New York State Department of Transportation would be hiring an independent consultant to analyze previously dismissed tunnel options that could redirect interstate traffic underneath Syracuse.

«Yes, they are seriously exploring the tunnel option.

He said the conclusions, however, support the case for a tunnel option to be included in the state's draft environmental impact statement, which will compare the costs and benefits of each option.

For example, he said, the tunnel option that keeps traffic moving in a route similar to the present configuration of I - 81 would ensure that restaurants, hotels and businesses in Salina will not be adversely impacted.

But the state delayed the process in January 2017 to wait for the results of a $ 2 million study of the tunnel options commissioned by the DOT.

The state Assembly and Senate members were not the only elected officials pressuring Cuomo to include the tunnel option in the state's study.

But he said the $ 2 million study of the tunnel option released last month made it clear it was not a viable alternative.

Cuomo's decision effectively delays the I - 81 project for at least a year while the DOT hires an independent consultant to complete a study comparing the tunnel options to two others — a new elevated highway or a community grid — that could replace the existing 1.4 - mile viaduct.

The letter to Cuomo was on the letterhead of state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, R - DeWitt, who has consistently pushed for the tunnel option to be considered.

Matt Driscoll, the acting executive director of the state Thruway Authority, said Cuomo «wanted to acknowledge the request of the local delegation» when the governor decided last week that the tunnel option should be included among the alternatives for replacing the existing 1.4 - mile viaduct that carries I - 81 through Syracuse.

Among local businesses who have touted the tunnel option are the owners of the Destiny USA shopping mall, and the owners of local hotels and restaurants in Syracuse and north of the city in Salina.

For those reasons, Stirpe was the only member of Central New York's state legislative delegation to Albany who declined to sign a Dec. 28 letter to Cuomo that supported including the tunnel option for additional study.

The department of transportation cited the cost two weeks ago when it announced that the tunnel option was not feasible.

«This study reaffirms the previous work done by the New York State Department of Transportation and what many in our community have long suspected: a tunnel option would take nearly a decade to build and have an outsize price tag,» Miner said in a statement.

DeFrancisco, who is also the senate's deputy majority leader, said he's repeatedly asked the Department of Transportation to provide a detailed cost breakdown of the tunnel option.

«This study reaffirms the previous work done by the New York State Department of Transportation and what many in our community have long suspected: a tunnel option would take nearly a decade to build and have an outsize price tag.»

Tunneling options were initially dismissed by the NYSDOT.

One group is also still pushing for the tunnel option, which would involve a tunnel being built underneath the city for the highway.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while laying out his 2018 legislative agenda during a speech in Albany, said transportation officials would include a tunnel option to replace I - 81 in a major project report.

The tunnel option has been rejected at least twice by highway officials who cite its exorbitant cost and long construction time.

Other local politicians, though, have denounced the tunnel option like Miner.

Along with other state representatives, he has urged the NYSDOT to consider a hybrid of both the grid and tunnel options.

The DOT had eliminated a tunnel replacement as an option, but on Wednesday, Cuomo indicated that the DOT will study the tunnel option, in addition to the other two.

An independent study of the tunnel options to replace the Interstate - 81 viaduct in Syracuse was released Monday.

«This study reaffirms the previous work done by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and what many in our community have long suspected: a tunnel option would take nearly a decade to build and have an outsize price tag,» Miner said on Monday.

Walsh has voiced his support for the community grid I - 81 replacement option despite a decision from Cuomo to include a tunnel option in a major project report.

Out of those, consultants found that an «Orange» tunnel option would be feasible, but expensive.

Cuomo in 2017 announced that an independent consultant would review a tunnel option to replace the aging Interstate 81 viaduct.

But now the tunnel option is back on the table, following the public release Monday of the study ordered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January after intense lobbying from local businesses and elected officials.

«This study reaffirms the previous work done by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and what many in our community have long suspected: a tunnel option would take nearly a decade to build and have an outsize price tag.