Posted on 12/07/2012 7:30:31 PM PST by neverdem
Looks good for a 15 dollar plus ride across it! The GW bridge and some others are now 14 dollars to cross. A rig with a few axes can cost up to 75 dollars or more to cross. Where’s all the money going? Education? how much more money do we need for education when the kids are getting dumber and thier propaganda agenda is progressing nicely. oops did I say that?
I like design 2. Of course I give a rat’s ass because I left NY and I won’t be paying for this.
Lot of racoons between Wurtsboro and the Tappan Zee. So many I don’t even need to wear my glasses to see them.
Its wooden pilings are being eaten by sea worms.
to 43.
Pretty to be sure, but I can just see what it’s going to do to our thruway tolls to pay for it.
On 9/11 ,The Tappen Zee was one of the few ways out of NY. My husband drove across it and saw the smoke where the Towers had stood. He’ll never forget that sight.
I only went over the new bridge a few times before we moved.
My mom hated it, so would go the long way to avoid it if she was driving.
We had used the old bridge just hours before the accident. And used the remaining bridge several times a year. The first few times we were not allowed to talk and had to roll down the windows. The no talking rule was also in place if the weather was bad.
I still hate crossing bridges if they are long and are over deep water.
What’s wrong with the old Tappan Zee bridge??
1. Structural corrosion. Engineers are wondering when a section of bridge deck might go.
2. The footings on the west end of the bridge are, shall we say, suboptimal. As in sitting on river silt, no pilings to bedrock. To get pilings to bedrock on that side, they would have to go deep. And this is causing problems that have been noticable of late.
Thanks for the ping!
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