A Colossal Bridge Will Rise Across the Hudson

NY Times ^ | 1/19/14 | JOSEPH BERGER

[Impala64ssa]

Let's see if, like most of the other bridges and expressways around NYC, this project winds up being "complete and obsolete". Not to mention even heavier truck traffic along I-84 when the massive toll hikes kick in.

[Biggirl]

Is this the famous bridge of “bridgegate” ?

[mountainlion]

Name it the Detroit bridge!

[bjc]

5 years just to sink the required number of pilings?
How compromised is the current Tappan Zee Bridge?

[Paladin2]

"Is this the famous bridge of “bridgegate” ?

No.

[Olog-hai]

Funny how none of those save the George Washington Bridge can connect New Jersey to (konservativenrein) New York.

Never mind envirowacko moves like this, which push up the price needlessly:

To soften the underwater sound waves emitted by pile-driving, strong enough to kill fish, workers surround each pile with a “bubble curtain,” a square enclosure fitted with a compressor that produces sound-dampening bubbles. …

Wuh-oh. How do they know that the “carbon emissions” of the air compressor won’t kill more fish?

[palmer]

How compromised is the current Tappan Zee Bridge?

It's a pile of rust.

[Olog-hai]

No. This one is all in New York State, and it’s 18 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. It’s also controlled by the NY State Thruway Authority versus the Port Authority.

[Biggirl]

Okay, now I got it. With all the recent focus on Gov. Christie, you forget what bridge was the focus of “bridgegate.” But then again, bad functioning bridges is a scandal in themselves.

[al baby]

Will this impede any water landings in the future ?

[Iron Munro]

Another gift to the labor unions.

[martin_fierro]

I always thought the Williamsburg Bridge was damned ugly.

[Zeppo]

Will this impede any water landings in the future ?

Not at all for beeber-equipped airliners.

[Andyman]

Hey! My great uncle was the architect! I look at it and feel groovy.

[Iron Munro]

I always thought the Williamsburg Bridge was damned ugly.

It was until now.

Now it is a work of art compared to the neo monstrosity abuilding at Tappan Zee.

[massgopguy]

It’s only the longest bridge in NY because a corrupt congressman wanted it in his district instead of where it would have been most effective.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"All other projects I’ve worked on are dwarfed by this — the size of the equipment involved, the enormity of what we’re doing,..."

Unfortunate word choice:

enormity: The quality of passing all moral bounds; excessive wickedness or outrageousness.
A monstrous offense or evil; an outrage.
Usage Problem. Great size; immensity: "Beyond that, [Russia's] sheer enormity offered a defense against invaders that no European nation enjoyed" (W. Bruce Lincoln).

There are so many enormities in New York, the project manager of an enormous project shouldn't besmirch his work so.

[Iron Munro]

Will the Cuomo government allow people to work on the project if they are not registered as democrats, communists or socialists?

[ZULU]

I always thought the people who designed these bridges were birds or something. The new ones soar into the air - real nightmares for acrophobes.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Looks like a Playmobil set.