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.

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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.

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Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2018

Girders and Concrete make News this Week

Here’s a close-up of one of section of the approximately 50,000 tons of structural steel on the 196,416-inch long bridge’s approach spans. Above is the Westchester side.

They’re huge. HUGE.

Imagine seeing one of the six barges that accidentally came loose after last week’s storm and floated down the river to a town or village, maybe near you.

Special Thanks to the commercial Tugs in the area assisting with the response. @USCG_Tri_State @FDNY marine on scene as well. pic.twitter.com/62WZaDNsXz

— ParkwayPolice (@ParkwayPolice) March 2, 2018

This week, crews will be installing them on the eastbound Rockland approach span using mobile cranes. The I Lift NY super crane gets to sit on the sidelines for this job.

Lots of concrete pours in the works, too, for the eastbound span’s abutment in Rockland and for the new state police facility in Tarrytown. Work continues on the Thruway Authority’s new maintenance facility.

I’d like to know what you think.

Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2016

Progress since First Span opened last August

Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and Tappan Zee Bridge credit Tom Kaminski / WCBS Chopper 880

At the top of the photo, you can see cuts in the Tappan Zee Bridge; here’s why.

Did you hear it? The whoosh of time going by: January marked five years since the Thruway Authority issued Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC (TZC) Notice To Proceed.

The westbound span’s been open nearly six months, and the maintenance facility and new police barracks are under way. Crews are dismantling the Tappan Zee Bridge, which looks tiny next to its replacement. Mom and I rode across the bridge last February, when more than half the stay cables were in place. She’d asked what the towers and blue girders were and if we were going to drive on it.

Yes, we will, mom. When you come home, I’ll take you in the car and drive across the new bridge to Memorial Park to eat ice cream and gaze at the river view.

New state police barracks will be ready for move-in day when bridge opens this year/NYSTA

Meantime, crews are working on the maintenance facility that you pass on the right driving westbound, and the new state trooper barracks just before Exit 9 and to the far right of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

I’d like to know what you think.

Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2018

ICYMI: Cool Views from around the Project Site

These sections of structural steel slated are the foundation for eastbound span deck panels that will have a one-inch polymer overlay for the driving surface and lane markings. Photos courtesy of New York State Thruway Authority.

Did you miss this from the car? The new maintenance facility is coming along.

What you don’t see from the driver’s seat: the police barracks foundation is progressing on the southern side of the Thruway.

I thought this would become a new pier near the Rockland shoreline. Wrong. It’s the Rockland abutment for the eastbound span.

Mystery object with snow-covered land in the background. Can you tell what it is?

I’d like to know what you think.

Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2018