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The DOT POD will give listeners a peek behind the curtain at the New York State Department of Transportation. With interviews and infrastructure updates, we pro...

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Budget Breakdown With Commissioner Dominguez
On this episode of The DOT POD, NYSDOT Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez joins Josh and Anya to discuss how we're ensuring better infrastructure, enhanced safety, and greater mobility for all New Yorkers.
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Newly Formed NYSDOT Women's Group
The women of DOT represent an extraordinary collective of dedicated professionals who thrive in a field that has long been viewed as predominantly male. In honor of Women's History Month, we are highlighting a newly formed Women's Group in DOT's Long Island office that is dedicated to uplifting and empowering the women who are making significant contributions to DOT and the transportation sector.In this episode, Josh and Anya are joined by Nancy Kamel and Deborah Rivera to discuss the group's origins and how it is nurturing a vibrant community of women centered around mentorship, advocacy, and collaboration. For more information about the women's group or how to start your own, contact Nancy:[email protected].
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Cultural Resources
As DOT works to rebuild and enhance our vast transportation network, we're often reminded that our state has a rich history far older than our modern infrastructure. Sometimes our projects reveal what life was like hundreds, even thousands of years ago and on this episode of The DOT POD we dig into the kind of discoveries that are being made as w shape our transportation system.Josh and Anya are joined by Sean Higgins and Kyle Sommerville who are both with DOTs Office of Environment to shed some light on how the Department is preserving cultural heritage and artifacts amid our goals for modernization and progress. Click to see the interactive story map: Enduring Connections
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Carolyn Ryan & the Office of Sustainability
In June of 2019, New York signed into the law the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) to help address climate change. This was furthered by Governor Hochul's Executive Order 22: which directs state agencies to adopt a sustainability and decarbonization program. On this episode of The DOT POD, we welcome in someone who is helping to lead the charge, New York State Department of Transportation's Assistant Commissioner for Sustainability, Carolyn Ryan. Josh and Anya had a chance to talk with Carolyn about her office, and the critical role they play in helping to achieve New York State's lofty climate goals.
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Can You Dig It - DOT Drillers
While we don't often think of what goes on under our feet, the drillers of DOT's Geotechnical Engineering Bureau are tasked with exactly what makes up the ground beneath us. On any given project, drillers will take core samples, allowing engineers to create a soil profile and select the most appropriate foundation type for the structure being analyzed. On this episode of The DOT POD, Josh and Anya welcome in two members of the Geotechnical Engineering Bureau, Steve Heiser and Ernie Holmberg, to find out more about this crucial work that often goes unnoticed.
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The DOT POD will give listeners a peek behind the curtain at the New York State Department of Transportation. With interviews and infrastructure updates, we provide the stories behind the agency that keeps you moving.

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