Posted on 02/22/2023 12:42:27 AM PST by Mr_Moonlight
A Hudson Valley Democrat wants to push the late former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo off his bridge — or at least the Cuomo name.
“Everyone in the Hudson Valley still calls the bridge the Tappan Zee for a reason,” state Sen. James Skoufis (D-Woodbury) told The Post of the span completed in 2018. “It’s the rightful name.”
Skoufis is adding his political muscle to a three-year-old legislative push by becoming the main sponsor of a bill to rename the bridge connecting Rockland and Westchester counties after two years in which GOP-led efforts went nowhere in a state Legislature dominated by Democratic supermajorities.
The name change would take effect immediately upon the bill passing the state Senate and Assembly — which Skoufis hopes to accomplish before the regular legislative session ends this June — and getting signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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This is how stupid NY is. They rebuild the Tappan Zee and Il duce’ cuomo names it after his old man.
They then pay half a million dollars for traffic signs which read “Mario Cuomo Bridge”
Il Duce gets pissed off they didn’t put the old mans middle initial on the sigsn. They then spend another half million $$$ for signs which read “Mario M Cuomo” bridge to replace the original sign.
My take- this hudson valley representative has a connection with the sign maker and is getting a kick back.
Nah- leave it.
The triborpugh is hands down the worst bridge in the metropolitan area. Keep the POS bridge named after a POS
When you have to pay between $6-14 to drive across any NYC connecting bridge, so that you can pay another $50 and up to park, so that a NYC professional street thief can beat the hell out of you and steal your stuff, I ax, why bother?
I lived in Manhattan for several years, {one year was when NYC broke the all time murder record, over 2,000 and they were so proud of it, that the local TV stations were giving up to the minute stats in late December {actually hoping that they'd exceed 2,200}.
For any NYorker that lived there that year, 1990 I think, you know this is true.
Saint George Floyd Bridge.
I crossed the old Tappan Zee bridge multiple times on trips to Fla. Too bad the new one was renamed for a schlep like Cuomo.
The Turtle clan people of the Hackensack tribe will be estatic.
Who killed more New Yorkers Andrew Cuomo or Osama Bin Laden?
So where is the outrage?
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