The Tappan Zee was replaced by the brand new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Gove
Posted on 03/10/2021 10:09:46 AM PST by Red Badger
On top of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing-home scandal and sexual-harassment charges comes new cause for concern: an alleged coverup of serious flaws in the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.
On Monday, the New York Thruway Authority denied any issues of concern over the $3.9 billion span, which replaced the Tappan Zee Bridge in 2017. But a report Sunday in The Albany Times Union alleges that the contractor “covered up” structural problems — faulty bolts — potentially endangering the public, and the authority basically let it slide.
“The bridge has been and continues to be safe,” insisted Jamey Barbas, the director of the construction project. Yet Barbas ultimately answers to a governor who covered up the deaths of helpless nursing-home residents. How can the public trust Barbas any more than Health Commissioner Howard Zucker?
The TU investigation included interviews with “multiple people who worked on the project” and reviews of “engineering reports, scientific analyses, court records and correspondence on file with the attorney general’s office” — which did its own investigation and reached a settlement with the bridge-building consortium, Tappan Zee Constructors.
The AG probe consisted of reviews by the Inspector General’s Office and the Thruway Authority, but the paper said its own reporting “raised questions about the thoroughness” of those reviews and the “relief obtained”: a $2 million penalty and a one-year warranty extension on “a limited number of sections of the bridge.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Tappan Zee was replaced by the brand new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Gove
Last I heard, Barbas works for Clavicus Vile.
Maybe this isnt the same Barbas.
The first thing on the repair list should be:
CHANGE THE DAMN NAME!!!!
We do not need to be reminded of the Cuomo Crime Family.
What ever bridge is in that location will always be
“The Tappan Zee Bridge!”
Now it’s the Tappin’ ze Till Bridge!..................................
I wonder how much money is buried under that “W”.
I wonder how many bodies are buried under that W......................
Cuomo Crime Company Continues.
Is there a webcam in the area so viewers can catch the collapse LIVE on air if it ‘lets go’ at some point?
Looks like two pair of spread legs.
Maybe they should call it the Kamala Harris Memorial Bridge?..................
I went over that bridge and it’s scary as hell. So high up. I guess a lot of people have no problem with that but I was driving and just hated it.
Also, how can anyone tell the old cute jokes about ‘tap ‘n see’ with a lousy name like the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.
Only goes down once, but, oh...what a ride!
Exactly. Cancel Cuomo.
It is fitting that on a bridge with that name it appears that the contractor skimmed money by using either counterfeit or improperly rated bolts.
Chicom bolts?
-” money is buried under that “W””
I hope no one kicks the bucket on this one?
One great movie.
I don't know. I just heard that bolts were cracking on that bridge. There have been problems with counterfeit bolts with false markings getting into military parts supply.
I’d like to think that sometime, maybe 10 or 20 years from now, there’d be something I could laugh at... Anything.
On the morning of April 5, 1987, during a high spring flood, the Schoharie Creek Bridge, on the New York State Thruway collapsed, killing 10 people. Mario Cuomo was Governor.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.