Last car crosses now-closed Tappan Zee Bridge north of NYC

Fox News ^ | 10/7/17

[fieldmarshaldj]

Malcolm Wilson was the last Conservative NY Governor. A huge reason he gets no respect in NY.

[cgbg]

They probably have a contract with the Corleone collection agency—need to get out of state folks to pay that toll!

[Oratam]

Exactly! NY seems in a hurry to rename everything after a Dem politician. There was a 50-year pause following the renaming of Idlewild. . .now it’s nonstop.

[EQAndyBuzz]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tappan_Zee_Bridge

[Doogle]

From the joisey side it looked like you were driving off the edge....such a long curve

[mewzilla]

Speaking of funding, from late August....

Editorial: Still waiting on bridge funding Taxpayers should know where funding for new Tappan Zee bridge is coming from by now

[Axenolith]

If it’s anything like the new Bay Bridge it won’t be the design that’s a cost issue, it’ll be the crappy materials QA/QC.

[BluH2o]

Lived in SW CT (Fairfield Cty.)for many years. Business took me over to NJ frequently; I've crossed the Tappan Zee & GW hundreds of times (no exaggeration). Even sailed under the TZ once, moving a sailboat from Tarrytown over to Stamford, CT.
Down the Hudson around the tip of Manhattan and up the East River. Interesting trip.

[Snowybear]

I drove over the west bound part of it last month, pretty amazing bridge.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yes, that’s the old one. Post #11 has a video of the new bridge which opened to one-way traffic in August, 2017.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Nice! Thanks!

[Rummyfan]

As was said in The Great McGinty, we need a new dam. And dams need a lot of concrete.

[trisham]

It reminds me a bit of the Zakim bridge in Boston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim_Bunker_Hill_Memorial_Bridge

[jimjohn]

Don’t worry about the bridge name,folks. Its still the Thomas E. Dewey thruway.

[JimRed]

...former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo...

I remember the old Bob Grant radio show, and the guy who use to sing “Mario, assenza me! Tu sei un proprio sfaccim." "He can run New York State, but the streets are filled with hate, when he comes to town, this is what we say, Mario, assenza me! Tu sei un proprio sfaccim."[

[JimRed]

The NY taxpayers (as usual) got hosed.

But the union bosses and the RAT party made out like bandits!

[SueRae]

And should have included a rail option, as well.

[Radix]

I prefer the TZ to the GW when driving south but tend to go Cross Bronx when returning. I had no idea that it was closing. The last time I drove over the GW almost 4 years ago, I broke down in Mamaroneck. Ended up getting a new car because the repairs simply took too long. Car got fixed but gave it away to a family member who used it as an Uber driver for a good while.

I knew a truck driver who I was told died going off that bridge some 20 plus years ago.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Shocking. Heh.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It’s good to be the King.