A blog about the cancelled N.Y. Westway project by the National Defense Resource Council exists at It was posted by NRDC lawyer Mitchell Bernard on May 4, 2005, and received 9 comments within 2 days, 1 on May 16, and 1 more on May 31, and hence none afterward until I discovered it and made the following post on October 4, 2005 up-dated version: 9yearold ho' cuts a mandissolution plea dealShanice and the victim were described as close friends. Relatives of Queen have said she was a straight-A student who loved books, dancing and playing jump rope." Ah, yes, she "dreamed uv becommin' a... --- " Under the Clean Water Act, that meant the Corps had to deny the permit for Westway (because, in part, there was a perfectly suitable transportation alternative that would not have any such impact)." Question: Did such an analysis include the perpetual water run off issues from Manhattan Island into the Hudson River of the different scenarios? For instance, was there a comparison of such options as a landfill as a buffer versus no land fill, and highway tunnel versus all the traffic on the surface with traffic lights? If the main issue in stopping the Westway project was the landfill, then why was not the inboard option adopted, together with a rail transit line? Likewise, if it was about clean air, why was exhaust filtration never pushed? It has been in use in other countries since the late 1960s to reduce air pollution; yet it is never heard of in the US until Alexander Saunders began promoting it for an I-287-highway-railway Cross Sound Tunnel, as it instead became fashionable to attack urban highway tunnel projects as a source of some extra funding for non highway mbutt transit. --- I am curious as to what might be their reply? Douglas A. Willinger Takoma Park Highway Design Studio
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