Posted on 10/07/2017 9:04:35 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
So, you don’t know and are just blowing smoke
That is such an appropriate name. I like it a lot!
Thanks for the posting. Is that the old bridge? Salvaging pieces of it towards other uses good idea.
the new bridge is a extreme boondoggle; private enterprise would never have funded this. Tolls cant even cover mai ten extra much less the capital costs.
“Please provide you engineering cost analysis to justify your post”
One thing that has to be figured into the equation is the New York dimoKKKRAT politicians and their union buddy thugs.
I don’t see you offering any facts and figures to rebut my point about exorbitant costs, pal. Where are they ? Lay out the justification for spending $4 billion for a river bridge.
More to the point, why are you so incensed about somebody complaining about taxpayers being fleeced ? I’d expect such an indignant outrage on a leftist website, not on this one. Care to explain ?
The existing bridge that stood for decades was probably engineered using a slide rule and pencil and paper. The engineered drawings are probably still on file somewhere...How many times does the same thing at the same location have to be engineered? And for how many billion$?
Yes— it will ALWAYS be the Tappan Zee to me. Lots of memories crossing it.
Maybe Thibby got his palms greased for this taxpayer fleece. Peculiar why $4b doesn’t seem to bother him none.
I think Cuomo is a great name for the bridge: Every bit of its support is crooked.
Drove over the old Tappan Zee many times.
Scary old bridge. Held my breath.
Eyep..I’ll vouch for that...scary
Bump
The new one looks very impressive - I'll be going over it on Monday for the first time. I think the $4b pricetag is in line for a project of that size. How much do you think it should have cost?
“If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, let it drown.”
Why, do you suppose it was such a scary Bridge? You both agreed. It was by far the longest bridge I had gone over when I was a kid and my dad was driving. The GWB was a much beefier affair with those heavy supports. Then I moved out to California and the San Mateo Bridge and the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge are considerably longer, but there was something about the Tappan Zee that seemed a little bit rickety even 40 years ago. Maybe because I was so young when I traveled over it.
I liked driving across the CrappanZee and being able to look down at the water below through a hole in the concrete.
That was an experience.
Will we float out to sea?
Or capsize first from all the people here.
FWIW, the official name of the bridge is the Governor Malcolm WilsonTappan Zee Bridge, but in death as in life, Rocky's lieutenant governor and successor gets no respect.
That’s the question, what should it have really cost ? The Empire State is notoriously corrupt, and you know the costs were padded to go to lining the pockets of Jr. Coomo’s pals.
You’re also right that the old Tappan Zee was needing a replacement. I’ve been over it several times (though not since the ‘90s last) and it was “getting up there” even then.
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