Posted on 03/12/2021 10:29:06 AM PST by Beowulf9
Oh, what was that song we used to sing?
The river is wide I can’t get o’er.
Neither have I the wings to fly.
So the Democrats will take our money.
And do something stupid while they pocket their bribe money
Yeah, yeah.
I was visiting from Phx but I am a displaced NYer from LI. I had not been to Tarrytown since a kid with my Uncle driving and I think back then we took a long way around anyway coming down from the Bear Mtn bridge. Going over the Tappanzee/Cuomo bridge in an unfamiliar rental car was terrifying. It is so high!
Right. It isn’t always about the width of the river. The river bottom might be the best place due to large layers of stone, might be any number of things.
I love all the New York bridges. All we have to do is blow them and we can keep millions of liberal freaks out of circulation.
A bus filled with women claimed the bridge made them feel uncomfortable. Time to change the name from St. Marios bridge back to the Tappan Zee.
Having the NY State Thruway go up to Albany and Montreal on the west side of the Hudson River was much easier to build (and have the Feds chip in other states' money for it) than have New York build a highway on the east side and cross over at a point further north than the Tappan Zee.
New York was looking at it to connect upstate New York to New York city and why should that commerce share revenue with New Jersey?
The Port Authority jurisdiction is not about a 25 mile circle or other nonsense that the article mentions but about what state the bridge connects on both sides:
-Tappan Zee Bridge - Tarrytown NY to Nyack NY; New York owned.
-Verrazzano Bridge (in sight of the Statue of Liberty) -Staten Island NY to Brooklyn NY; New York owned.
-George Washington Bridge - Fort Lee NJ to Manhattan NY; Port Authority owned.
Current New York Governor, Nursing Home Killer (NHK) Cuomo, even tried to have the Port Authority take ownership of the failing structure because New York never realized the toll revenue they expected since upstate New York died as a manufacturing and agriculture region. Say what you want about NJ Governor Chris Christie but he shot that insanely criminal idea down.
Connected contractors and politicians make more money that way.
You can always try the Astoria–Megler Bridge that spans the mouth of the mighty Columbia River, between Astoria, Oregon, and Point Ellice near Megler, Washington. Opened 55 years ago in 1966, it is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.
It’s only 4 miles long
Ah.
The Crappan Zee bridge.
Built originally with substandard material and replaced with substandard material.
Drove it in the 90’s in a Geo Metro.
There was a hole in the decking in one lane that went through to give a view of the water below.
The solution, bolt a flat plate over it but have the bolt studs on top of the decking with the nuts and stud where your tires go.
That was fun to see at the time.
Thomas E. Dewey - that last Presidential candidate (of a major party) with facial hair (a mustache)
Who was the last Presidential candidate with a beard?
Who was the last President with facial hair?
Who was the last President with a beard?
Who was the last bald President?
Who was the last bald President? Trick question becuase he's not a legitimate President but 'Hairplugs' Biden is bald.
Read the article. They chose it because it was just about the southern most point on the Hudson outside of the jurisdiction of the Port of New York Authority. Any further south and the Port Authority would have collected the tolls. Build where it was, the New York State Thruway collects the tolls.
Thanks for the article. Interesting to read. Now just leave the bridge name alone.
Efficiency.
Think about it: The wider the crossing, the more glad you are that there is a bridge there, and you don’t have to swim.
And yes, /S
I haven’t been to NYC and environs in many years. This is news to me. They renamed the Triborough Bridge? What about the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel? Bronx Whitestone Bridge? Queensboro Bridge? BQE? I hope they haven’t renamed all of these for Democrat politicos.
Tappan Zee was my favorite bridge.
I heard reported this morning that the bridge may revert back to its original name due to the Cuomo scandals. Can’t come soon enough!
Going over the Tappanzee/Cuomo bridge in an unfamiliar rental car was terrifying. It is so high!
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