Plate installation on TZ Bridge pushed back a week
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- April
- 17
Due to rain this past Wednesday, the work to install metal construction plates and asphalt ramps on the Tappan Zee Bridge has been pushed back to next Friday, April 24, and Saturday, April 25.
Ted Nadratowski, the state Thruway Authority’s New York division director, said this morning that the work had been expected to be completed tonight and tomorrow night. In fact, signs near the bridge informed drivers during the day on Wednesday that the plates would be in place within a few days.
But rain that night delayed the work, which will see the addition of asphalt ramps of about 50 feet in length.
The ramps will lead up to steel plates on two modular joints — one located at the midpoint on the main span and one on the west deck truss of the bridge. The ramps will cover the entire width of the bridge at each bridge joint location and will gradually thicken until the ramp is flush with the top of the roadway plates.
The asphalt ramps are expected to provide a smooth transition over the plates, in hopes of avoiding the long delays the plates caused last year by allowing drivers to travel at reasonable speeds.
There will still be work on the bridge tonight.
Work will begin at 10 p.m. resulting in the closure of two left Rockland-bound lanes, to three lanes at midnight until 8 a.m. from Interchange 10 to the east deck truss on the Tappan Zee Bridge. Due to the lane closures, the entrance ramp from Broadway (southbound) in Tarrytown will also be closed from 10 p.m. until 8 a.m. All traffic will be detoured to the entrance ramp from Route 119.
No work scheduled is scheduled for Saturday.
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on Friday, April 17th, 2009 at 9:41 am by Khurram Saeed.
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