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Democratic congressman asks Pete Buttigieg, feds to probe Mario Cuomo Bridge
NY Post ^ | March 15, 2021 | 3:59pm | David Meyer

Posted on 03/15/2021 3:11:29 PM PDT by conservative98

The Democratic congressman who reps both sides of the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge is calling on the federal government to investigate concerns about the span’s structural integrity.

US Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY), who represents Westchester and Rockland counties, recently wrote a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, asking him to probe claims reported by the Albany Times-Union earlier this month that bridge contractors “covered up” faulty bolts in the $3.9 billion structure.

Jones called on Buttigieg “to open an investigation into these claims and … to work with the New York state Department of Transportation to ensure proper inspections are conducted to assure the public of the safety of the bridge,” the Times-Union reported.

“It is key to the economic success of the region and critical to the livelihood of my constituents, many thousands of whom use the bridge to commute to and from work,” the freshman congressman wrote.

“I urge you to immediately begin a thorough and transparent investigation in coordination with the New York Department of Transportation into the structural integrity of the bridge and address any concerns about its safety.”

The upstate newspaper’s investigation alleged that Tappan Zee Constructors, the four-company consortium tasked with building the bridge, attempted to hide dozens of broken bolts from state authorities.

Whistleblower James McNall — who worked for a subcontractor on the project — alleged the engineer in charge of assembling the span’s girders “directed that a laborer be assigned to monitor the assembly bays and quickly discard any broken bolts into a metal scrap bin before the state’s inspectors would notice.”

An outside bridge expert hired by McNall, meanwhile, found “the volume of bolt failures on the bridge to be unprecedented and highly alarming,” the Times-Union reported.

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To: conservative98

What could go wrong?

Disaster in Minneapolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74JNl5n-YdI


21 posted on 03/15/2021 4:03:25 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: colorado tanker
>> How is he in any was qualified to run the Transportation Department??<<

He is a Roads Scholar.
22 posted on 03/15/2021 4:21:00 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Touche’
Then again, I think he may have been “rode” a few times1


23 posted on 03/15/2021 4:24:24 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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To: conservative98
Democratic congressman asks Pete Buttigieg, feds to probe Mario Cuomo

I'll bet.

24 posted on 03/15/2021 4:24:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: conservative98

Why is a bridge named after this jacksss or why is any bridge or building ever named after a politician ?
That’s like naming a street after a gang member or Mafia member


25 posted on 03/15/2021 4:29:05 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: Kid Shelleen

:-))


26 posted on 03/15/2021 4:33:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: castlebrew
I liked Manuel best. Polly was kinda hot too.


27 posted on 03/15/2021 4:43:16 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: conservative98

In other words, “cover up any evidence of political corruption and blame the builder for the failure of government to have adequate oversight over construction design and materials”.

Though the idea of the Mario Cuomo Bridge collapsing is a great metaphor for New York right now. I just hope his bungling will spare innocent lives this time.


28 posted on 03/15/2021 5:08:12 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: conservative98
Update...

Unsealed records allege a cover up of safety concerns on Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge

29 posted on 04/05/2021 6:18:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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