Bridge Work Ramps Back Up as Albany Allocates $900 Million for the Replacement Project

Written by LANNING TALIAFERRO (Patch Staff)

As workers return to the construction site on the Tappan Zee, the budget deal in Albany promises about $900 million for the new NY bridge.

According to the lohud blog Politics on the Hudson, the plan is to use some of the $5.4 billion the state has received from settlements with insurers and banks.

There are 31 cranes on the project right now—and many more expected—as the harsh winter recedes and construction work ramps up.

According to New NY Bridge officials,

With action resuming and intensifying during what will be a very busy 2015 construction season, more than 400 workers will return to the project by mid-April with hundreds more to be added by the peak of activity this summer. To date, more than 3,000 people have worked on the New NY Bridge project.

The reinvigorated construction will be supported by a growing armada of more than 100 floating cranes, barges, tugboats and other vessels. The impossible-to-miss I Lift NY super crane, will soon make the first of what will be hundreds of heavy lifts this year. This spring the massive machine will install a 600-ton approach span pile cap, a task that no other single crane on the job could handle.

PHOTO: Construction cam, New York Thruway Authority

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