Bridge of Grand Ambitions Is Set to Open at the Tappan Zee.
At a cost of $4 billion, the new structure, is scheduled to see its first drivers early Saturday, and will eventually be able to carry 140,000 cars a day.
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — After two decades of dithering by government officials and four years of herculean drilling, pounding, hauling and lifting by 7,000 workers, a new 3.1 mile bridge is set to open at the Tappan Zee in the early hours of Saturday, the first crossing on that scale that has been built in the New York region in more than half a century.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who set the $4 billion project in motion after previous administrations had hemmed and hawed about whether to pay for continued repairs on the deteriorating Tappan Zee Bridge or to undertake an expensive replacement, stood Wednesday on the helm of a tugboat packed with reporters and photographers. He looked upon the structure’s 40-story sloping concrete towers and a cat’s cradle of cables with the smile of a 10-year-old who had just finished a model airplane.
“We’ve been through this every day, but to see it in reality, it takes my breath away,” he said.'>>>
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