Posted on 10/07/2017 9:04:35 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. – With a 1929 Model A Ford Phaeton making the final 3.1-mile (4.99-kilometer) journey across the Hudson River, the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York City's northern suburbs has officially closed. Much of the fanfare that accompanied the opening of an adjacent $3.9 billion twin-span named in honor of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo in August was missing Friday night when the Tappan Zee saw its final crossing, according to The Journal News . Seth Kestenbaum was the last driver to cross the 61-year-old bridge around 10 p.m. in the vintage Ford. "If you're first across the bridge, everyone's going to be repeating that," Kestenbaum said. "I'm the last one to cross the bridge. I've got to tell you, what an honor." One of the two new spans is now accommodating traffic flowing both ways between Westchester and Rockland counties in New York's northern suburbs on the bridge named for current Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's father, who died in 2015. That span officially opened in late August for Rockland-bound drivers. Cuomo and other dignitaries were on hand for the ceremonial first ride across the bridge. On Friday night, Westchester-bound traffic was quietly diverted onto the same span. A temporary concrete divider will be used until the second span opens next year. The new bridge project was launched by the state Thruway Authority in 2013 after decades of political squabbling. The Tappan Zee opened in 1955. Eventually, the Thruway Authority will give away parts of the old bridge's deck and its moveable barrier system. Eight counties have requested some of the 150 deck panels to be salvaged for reuse in other bridges.
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I hate naming bridges out of politicians.
There must be greater man than him in the city.
[Too bad they’re naming the new bridge after il Sfaccim ]
Yep. Mario Cueball.
$4 billion for a friggin’ bridge. It ought to be gilded from top to bottom. The NY taxpayers (as usual) got hosed.
Like your average garbage man. This isn’t even in NYC, it’s in Westchester County. Of course, if it were in Taxachusetts, they’d name it after Ted the Swimmer.
The Tappan Zee Bridge is a good piece north of NYC. I prefer it over the George Washington when going south, to Washington, or Virginia. I-95 through the pre-Juliani Bronx was the kind of horror that inspired dystopian movies like Escape From New York.
“There must be greater man than him in the city.”
I suspect virtually anyone would fulfill your request. The Cuomos are to NY as the Browns are to CA. The good news for us is that Jerry the Fairy is in his last term, and has no children, so the “Brown Dynasty” is coming to an end. New York isn’t nearly as lucky. Remember that old campaign slogan: “If it’s Brown, Flush it!”
Good video of the whole thing, when a few lanes of the new bridge opened earlier this summer:
Please provide you engineering cost analysis to justify your post
I grew up in New Jersey and was driven over the George Washington Bridge many many times in my yout’. The Tappan Zee ,only a couple of times but I thought the Tappan Zee was completely amazing. And scary!
Why not call it the Corleone Causeway?
Try doing the GWB, Cross Bronx Expressway, and the NE Throughway in a semi 5 times a week. This is why Im now driving a school bus.
How much of that $4 billion did the bridge actually cost, and how much went to Il Coomo’s buddies to line their pockets ?
70 years ago. My dad had a junk yard near the GW bridge. It is now a dog park...
“Of course, if it were in Taxachusetts, they’d name it after Ted the Swimmer.”
And extract a mandatory honorarium; the kind that goes away when it’s paid off; just like the Mass Turnpike (chortle, chortle)
It’ll still be the Tapan Zee to me. Screw the Cuomo’s.
Everything named after abortion supporters should be renamed.
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