TZ Bridge deck project $25M over budget, will now cost $175M
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The ongoing road deck and joint repairs on the Tappan Zee Bridge — the costliest project in its 53-year history — will cost $25 million more than anticipated.
The state Thruway Authority had contracted to spend $150 million to replace 40 percent of the 3-mile bridge’s deck, but it found some support structures in worse condition than expected.
Ted Nadratowski, the Thruway’s New York division director, told me this morning that those connections had to be replaced, leading to the overruns and the $175 million price tag.
Nadratowski also said the metal construction plates will remain on the bridge until late October — a month longer than planned — because work has been delayed by bad weather this summer.
That won’t much of a difference to drivers because asphalt ramps leading to and from the plates have allowed the free-flow of traffic, unlike last year when the plates wreaked all kind of havoc.
Read more about this story tomorrow in The Journal News and LoHud.com.
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