Posted on 03/12/2021 10:29:06 AM PST by Beowulf9
If you've ever driven up the East Coast, you may have driven over the Tappan Zee Bridge. The span — north of New York City — was built in the spot that seems to make the least economic sense. Why?
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
What I had heard years ago, is that there were two factors:
1. the approaches there were not cliffs, allowing much a much lower bridge with shorter supports.
2. the bridge itself ‘floated’ in the mud, rather than even trying to reach bedrock. This was at least part of why the bridge was S-shaped.
I nearly posted this article last week but when I saw it was from NPR I really did not want to give them credit but the information is so relevant and no one else has brought this to light.
May the conservative gods forgive me.
This is great information and a good point. I’m impressed.
Follow the money.
Always.
Me too. Also, I never will forget my Aunt’s little corny joke about ‘tap and see’ although I do not remember anything but the punch line and her little smile.
LOL to your #1. And a pretty nasty beard at that ...
Well if it’s in shoddy condition and falls killing everyone on the bridge I for one would not mind if it fell under the name Mario Cuomo, and assigned that name by his equally crooked son, Andrew.
And New York can thank those two for the bill bill...either for the fall of the bridge or the repair.
It will always be the Tappen Zee bridge.
I looked it up as I never heard of it before. It does look awful high.
I found going over the George Washington Bridge scary only because of the traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Terrifying.
But bridges don’t have to be high to be scary. That little bridge on Chappaquiddick for eg.
Who is the first vice president that leaves snail tracks ?
I remember going over the old Talmadge Bridge into Savannah when I was 10, before I-95 was completed in the area. My uncle was driving, and my aunt and mother were probably terrified. That final hill to the top on southbound U.S. 17 seemed to go straight up!
I still remember seeing the bridge looming prominently over the Savannah skyline while we were headed outbound on I-16.
Yes. The Triborough is now the “Robert Effen Kennedy Bridge” (the carpetbagger). The Brooklyn Battery is the Hugh Carey Tunnel (that useless governor). The Queensboro is now the Ed Koch Bridge.
And the Tappan Zee (which was originally named the Malcolm Wilson Bridge after a governor who actually lived in Westchester) was re-named after Benito Nipplering Mussolini Cuomo’s father, Mario Mafioso Cuomo.
Same goes for Sixth Avenue.
“ The Queensboro is now the Ed Koch Bridge.”
You mean the 59th Street Bridge?
Corruption is not new. It is FAR worse today, but not new.
Bedrock
In New York it’s all about the Benjamins.
The Bear Mountain Bridge was the bridge we took to go to my relatives' houses in Pennsylvania before I 84 was built. There was a hotel on the route (US 6) called Hotel On The Mountain and my sister used to sing 'Hotel on the Mountain' to the tune of Go Tell It on The Mountain... 😀
So in other words, being democrats.
Nice slash of Occam’s razor!
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