LHV Engineering Expo: 15th Annual STEM Event

As the bridge project met and hit timeline markers, your intrepid reporter met one of her own: last Sunday I attended the Lower Hudson Valley Engineering Expo at White Plains High School. Yes, my then four-and-one-half week new hip and I.

The first photo includes a black strand sticking up from the cross-section of stay cable. The photo above shows the top of that section with wires bundled into it.

Everyone wanted to see how heavy the section of 18-gauge galvanized rebar was compared to the residential rebar. I wonder if anyone tried to pick up the section of cement.

There were oyster shells — I put two up to my ear and thought I heard a whoosh although not like the ocean — and furry friends like this fish to show the project was protecting life below the bridge.

Weather not withstanding as spring is hiding somewhere, the day of companies, experiments, college and universities, learning and contests was a success. It was reigning STEM. You’re smiling if you understand the reference, and please pardon the pun if you don’t.

Watch for story about kids’ fascination with —  and how they’re learning about — STEM topics and activities in the May issue of Westchester Family.

I’d like to know what you think.

Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2018

Flashback Friday: Five Years of Blogging

The night before the new bridge’s westbound span opens: photo courtesy of the New York State Thruway Authority. The eastbound span will open sometime this year; the walking and bicycle path not for another year.

It’s all about the concrete as places precast slabs near the Westchester landing pours concrete for the new state trooper facility . . . and the new maintenance facility gets exterior wall panels and windows.

Learn more at the Lower Hudson Valley Engineering Expo this Sunday, April 15.

I’d like to know what you think.

Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2018

ICYMI: Where Educational Outreach Began

The photo above is the new westbound span and soon-to-be-finished eastbound span with the Tappan Zee Bridge behind them. Five years ago this summer, ideas of people in the photo below sparked the bridge project’s five-year educational outreach program. Photos are courtesy of the New York State Thruway Authority.

Learn more at the Lower Hudson Valley Engineering Expo next Sunday, April 15.

I’d like to know what you think.

Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2018

Westchester Landing Removal & Lane Closures

And away it goes! Sections of Thruway near the Westchester landing say goodbye to the land this week, when crews begin removing them to make way for new precast concrete slabs. Click here for information about lane closures this week.

This is how the Thruway will connect to the land . . . and another reason the floating Tappan Zee Bridge-park was not a good idea.

Back to the picture above. Wouldn’t it make a pretty desktop wallpaper for your laptop or computer? Do you recognize the pattern?

It’s a tiny area of the more than 100,000 tons of welded (structural steel) beams supporting the roadway. Photo courtesy of the New York State Thruway Authority.

Oh, and remember the article I mentioned earlier about infrastructure, the new bridge and federal spending? You can read it here.

I’d like to know what you think.

Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2018

Progressing on Opposite Sides of the Thruway

Next month will be three years ago that water splashed, and the machine lunged at the former police barracks and Thruway Authority maintenance facility in Tarrytown. 

The building was separated from the barracks, creating a gap that had been sealed the day before (click photo).

As both new facilities take shape, crews continue pouring concrete for the new state police barracks on the south side of the Thruway and are installing exterior wall panels on the new maintenance building on the north side (you can see it from the approach span).

The past will soon be gone: crews are demolishing the old maintenance garage in Tarrytown. Photos 1 and 3 courtesy of the New York State Thruway Authority.

Remember what happened seven months ago? Click here to find out.

I’d like to know what you think.

Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2018