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The Brian Lehrer Show

Our Maritime and Bridge Infrastructure

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Peter Ford, founder of SkyRock Advisors, a port and maritime infrastructure advisor, and a member of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy advisory board, and Brian Buckman, professional engineer and founder and CEO of Buckman Engineering, discuss the local maritime and bridge infrastructure—how it's built and regulated—and the systems in place to prevent an accident like the collision in Baltimore from happening here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Mayeriss on WNYC.

0:13.4

Good morning everyone.

0:14.8

On a day when we now know the final rules

0:17.4

for Manhattan's congestion pricing tolls.

0:20.1

Did you hear that?

0:20.8

We'll do a segment on that later in the show.

0:23.4

And we're going to ask, how is this actually going to change your behavior?

0:27.9

So we'll find out if any of you do plan to change your behavior because of the congestion

0:31.9

pricing tolls.

0:33.1

It's also a day when we now know the New York State budget

0:37.2

will apparently not be passed by the start of the new fiscal year

0:40.9

on Monday.

0:41.6

We will talk to New York City Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer

0:45.2

about how the city is still pushing Albany in the negotiations end game to

0:49.7

give New Yorkers something meaningful on affordable housing and a big new rezoning

0:55.5

proposal for the city that's going to affect a lot of neighborhoods if it goes

0:59.6

through that the Adams administration just proposed this morning.

1:04.0

It's also a day when we'll ask if it's safe to be a child actor.

1:08.6

We'll talk about a new docuaries.

1:10.8

Have you seen it on Max that exposes what it was like in the hey day of Nickelodeon,

1:16.0

let's just say for now, it wasn't all the sweet and wacky fun that you saw on your screen as a kid.

1:24.0

But we start here.

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