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Throgs Neck Bridge
The Throgs Neck Bridge is a suspension bridge opened on January 11, 1961, which carries Interstate 295 over the East River where it meets the Long Island Sound. The bridge connects the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx with the Bay Terrace section of Queens. It is the newest bridge across the East River and was built to relieve traffic on the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge 2 miles to the west, which opened in 1939. The Throgs Neck Bridge is the easternmost crossing off of Long Island. Due to this and its proximity to both the Cross Bronx Expressway and the New England Thruway, it is the closest route from Long Island to New Jersey via the George Washington Bridge; upstate New York; Connecticut; and other points north and east.
The Throgs Neck Bridge is owned by the City of New York and operated by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
NYC DEP Research scientist Chris Nadareski with falcon.Two baby boys and one baby girl peregrine falcons are banded atop theThrogs Neck Bridge. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
The moonshiner’s Sentinel steam lorry broke down whist on tour, so has been collected my the railway version of the Automotive Association to get it home and be fixed. They had to choose a route without low railway bridges and tunnels due to it being well out of gauge.
Here we are back at HQ, but it appears that the police and customs and excise are waiting for them. How are our loveable inch high rogues going to get out of this one? Or it is all over? Suggestions in the comments below…
This is on the floating walkway in central Brisbane, which was built around a section of waterfront where the council felt it would have a tough battle in court if it had actually built a walkway just off the shoreline fixed to the river bottom as it had done elsewhere.
This means that there were sufficient lawyers and other people on high incomes, who would fight tooth and nail to protect their waterfront property.
During the January 2011 floods, a very large section (including this part) broke away and floated downstream to the bay where it was secured. The cost of repair, if it goes ahead, and that is looking doubtful, will be many millions (perhaps $70M+ ).
Remembering why the path ended up as a floating walkway in the first place.
It goes back to Queensland's complex land title system and how a couple of rarely-used small boats that cost their owners relatively little have cost the broader public a whole lot more. Properties with back yards on the river, such as those on the New Farm stretch, have rights to access the land from the river and vice versa. This is generally understood to mean boat access. So we extend rights to erect pontoons and decks.
The problem is the prohibitive cost for public authorities trying to do anything that infringes on those rights.
The design solution to overcome this boat access problem proved extremely expensive: a floating walkway with a sizeable hi-tech swinging bridge half-way along.
The expensive swinging bridge was used 16 times in four years. But property law is blind to actual use; it only sees rights and entitlements.
Plans to rebuild against the shoreline will resut in howls of protest from the neo-libertarians who argue that governments should not encroach on private freedoms, especially when it comes to property.
But this is an obvious case where a small set of rarely enacted private use rights are clearly hindering popular public infrastructure, at great public expense.
Hence we hope there is a solution to Brisbanes expensive, popular and sorely missed floating BRIDGE.
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MTA Bridges & Tunnels Vice President and Chief of Operations Richard Hildebrand presents commendations to Sgt. Orlando Caholo and BTO Heather Minutello at the Queens Midtown Tunnel on Tue., June 22, 2021.
The officers spotted runaway dog Indie running through the tunnel, and contacted her owner, Heather Angus, leading to their reunion.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA
Note: this photo was published in a Aug 30, 2011 issue of Everyblock NYC for the "customized" region of Central Park.
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You probably think that you already know everything that you need to know about the Central Park reservoir. After all, everyone has heard of New York City, and most people (except the residents of certain boroughs that we won't mention by name) assume that "New York City" means "Manhattan." And if you've heard of Manhattan, then you've heard of Central Park ... and if you know about Central Park, then you know about the reservoir in the middle of the park. What more is there to know?
Well, actually, there's a lot you should know, beginning with the fact that its official name is now "The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir," in honor of the late widow of President John Kennedy. But you can call it the Central Park Reservoir, because that was its original name, and that's what most of us here still do call it. (We also insist on calling the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge by its original moniker, "the Triboro Bridge," but who knows how long that will last.)
More importantly, it's not even a reservoir any more ... or, to be more precise, it became a "decommissioned" reservoir in 1993, when it was deemed obsolete because of a new water-main under 79th Street that connected to the Third Water Tunnel. (There was also some concern that the reservoir might eventually become contaminated because of the nasty habit of the rowdy bridge-and-tunnel crowd -- aka visitors from New Jersey, Long Island, and other 'burbs -- to pee in the reservoir after getting thoroughly sloshed on green beer and Ripple wine every St. Patrick's Day. But we don't really like to talk about that, because they eventually go home, and we make a lot of money from the event.)
So basically, the Central Park so-called reservoir is just a big pond with a billion gallons of water (give or take a gallon or two), with colorful Kanzan cherry trees along one section, a bunch of rhododendrons along another section, and lots of animals (mallards, Canadian geese, coots, loons, cormorants, wood ducks, raccoons, grebes, herons, and egrets) who hang out in the general area. It also has a 1.58-mile jogging path, which means that you can almost always find dozens of people jogging, walking, or racing around the park; and only the cynics would remind you that game show host Jack Barry died while jogging around the reservoir in 1984.
You might think that the reservoir was originally a pond or a small lake, or that it was fed and replenished by some kind of underground stream. But in fact, the reservoir was built during the period of 1858-1862 by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, as part of the overall design of Central Park. It was never a source of water itself, nor was it a "collecting" reservoir; its purpose instead was to receive water from upstate New York, via the Croton Aqueduct, and distribute it to the thirsty residents of Manhattan. All of that predated the work of Olmstead and Vaux; the Croton aqueduct was begun in 1837, and began delivering water to New York City in 1842.
So much for the history of the place. Like I said, it's basically just a big pond in the middle of Manhattan; but it happens to be a very beautiful place, especially with the skyline of the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side, and central Manhattan so visible from different vantage points. During the brief week or two that the cherry trees are in blossom, it's almost as beautiful as the famous stretch of trees in Washington; and it's a peaceful place for a stroll throughout the spring, summer, and fall. It's even beautiful in the dead of winter, when much of the water has frozen over, and when the jogging path is basically empty...
On three consecutive days in mid-to-late August, I walked around the reservoir with my camera, doing my best to capture some of the peaceful beauty, as well as the activity of the joggers and walkers and tourists. On the first day, I walked clockwise around the reservoir -- because everyone else was following the posted rules, and was running/walking counter-clockwise, which made it easier for me to photograph them. Then I came back the next day and walked the circumference again, but this time in the officially-sanctioned counter-clockwise direction. And then I decided that all of the still photos had failed to capture the beauty of the fountain that sprays a plume of water high into the air, as well as the constant motion of all those joggers and walkers ... so I came back for a third lap around the park, but this time with my camera set to "video" instead of "still." I've done my best to winnow all of the photos and videos down to a representative set; but to truly appreciate the beauty of the place, you'll have to come back and see it for yourself.
By the way, don't ask me what a grebe is. I have no idea, and I can only hope that I haven't stepped on one by mistake as I've walked around the reservoir from time to time...
Photos I took during the taxi ride from LGA, where my flight from Toronto landed at 8:30AM, to Brooklyn Heights, where my cab driver dropped me off at the Mariott Hotel to wait until the bridges and tunnels reopened. Time stamps are approximate, since these were print photos that I scanned later.
At the direction of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, MTA Bridges and Tunnels closed the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel at 2 p.m. on Monday, October 29, 2012, in advance of Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Crews from MTA Bridges and Tunnels kept the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge open throughout the winter storm that dumped 6 to 11 inches of snow throughout the region on January 21,2 014.
Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / William McCann
Employees from MTA Bridges and Tunnels are pumping 43 million gallons of water out of each of the tubes of the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel (formerly the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel).
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Dutch/ English
Dordrecht ligt op een eiland. Het eiland van Dordrecht. Ooit waren er alleen verbindingen per veerpont. In het begin roeiend, later gemotoriseerd. De meeste verbindingen zijn vervangen door bruggen en tunnels. Slechts twee veren voor voetgangers en één autoveer zijn nog over.
Dordrecht is located on an island. The island of Dordrecht. Once there were only connections by ferry. Initially rowing, later motorized. Most connections are replaced by bridges and tunnels. Only two ferries for pedestrians and one ferry for cars are left.
As part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the Veteran Corps of Artillery fired a 50-gun salute, with howitzers on both the Brooklyn and Staten Island sides of the Narrows.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
Vehicle impounded by MTA Bridge and Tunnel Officers on Friday, Oct. 1. The vehicle owner was one of the agency’s top toll violators, owing $58,000 in unpaid tolls and resulting fees.
Photo courtesy MTA Bridges and Tunnels
Officers gathered at the King Fook Funeral Home on Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn to mourn the passing of MTA Bridges and Tunnels Officer Thomas Choi, who was struck by a motorist while performing his duties at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Oct. 20, 2013. He succumbed to his injuries without ever regaining consciousness on Dec. 29, 2014. Officer Choi is the first MTA Bridges and Tunnels Officer to die in the line of duty in the history of the agency.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The 50th running of the TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. MTA Bridges and Tunnels personnel at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA
MTA Bridge and Tunnel Officers involved in rescuing more than a dozen people from a burning building near the Queens-Midtown Tunnel on July 30 were presented with Heroism Awards by MTA Chairman & CEO Thomas Prendergast during the MTA board meeting on Wed., September 24, 2014.
Officer James McGuigan.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
Crews work during Phase One of repairs to the upper level of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Work is expected to continue through summer 2017. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
Three baby chicks atop the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Wed., May 21, 2020, where Chris Nadareski examines and applies tracking bands to new peregrine falcons that have hatched in a nest built atop the structure for them.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, commuter rail, and bridge and tunnel systems.
MTA Bridges and Tunnels took advantage of reduced traffic volumes in May 2020 to ready its flood gates at the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel (formerly Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel). Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels
Three baby chicks atop the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Wed., May 21, 2020, where Chris Nadareski examines and applies tracking bands to new peregrine falcons that have hatched in a nest built atop the structure for them.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Fellow "Flickr-holic" Bridges and Tunnels and I took our annual trip to Sydney's Northwest today (29/12/2015) to review progress on Metro Northwest (AKA the North West Rail Link).
Bella Vista Station compound
Museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, commuter rail, and bridge and tunnel systems.
Fotografía / Photography: Robert Howlett / Wikimedia Commons.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS (9 de abril de 1806 - 15 de septiembre de 1859) fue un ingeniero mecánico y civil inglés considerado una de las figuras más ingeniosas y prolíficas de la historia de la ingeniería del siglo XIX, y de la Revolución Industrial, que cambió el aspecto del paisaje inglés con sus innovadores diseños e ingeniosas construcciones. Brunel construyó astilleros, la línea ferroviaria Great Western Railway, varios barcos de vapor, entre ellos el primer transatlántico de hélice, y numerosos puentes y túneles importantes. Sus diseños revolucionaron el transporte público y la ingeniería moderna.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS (April 9, 1806 - September 15, 1859) was an English mechanical and civil engineer considered one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in the engineering history of the 19th century, and of the Industrial Revolution, who changed the face of the English landscape with his innovative designs and ingenious constructions. Brunel built shipyards, the Great Western Railway, several steamships, including the first propeller-driven ocean liner, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionized public transportation and modern engineering.
público y la ingeniería contemporánea.
© Restauración y coloreado: Jaime Gea Ortigas.
Under its mother’s watchful eye, a peregrine falcon chick is banded by NYC DEP Research Scientist Chris Nadareski atop the south tower of the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The chick, named Tillie, appeared healthy.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Having gained better traction, the "Skyliner" 2-10-0 and its train heads for the bridge and tunnel at the east end of Zonguldak yard. 16/12/1973 [TKY 14].
MTA Bridges and Tunnels lent personnel and a fleet of 18 trucks and other pieces of heavy equipment to assist in the snow removal efforts in Suffolk County after a huge blizzard dumped up to 30 inches of snow across the County on February 8-9, 2013.
Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels
After crossing the Kentucky River, empty grain train G751 enters the interlocking at Ford, KY, the end of double track through Patio. The south end double track used to be further south, but was relocated to here in the mid to late 70s. A 2nd through-truss bridge and tunnel is behind the vegetation, and is all that remains of that arrangement.
On Sunday, November 3, 2013, the MTA's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge hosted the first mile of the New York City Marathon.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
MTA Bridges and Tunnels officials, Staten Island elected officials and family members of fallen MTA Bridge and Tunnel Officer Thomas Choi attended a solemn ceremony September 28, 2015 to rename a portion of Major Avenue in honor of Choi, who was critically injured at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in October 2013. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
Street Near Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Renamed In Honor Of MTA Bridge and Tunnel Officer Thomas Choi
The fishing pier on One Island on the Bay/Sea Gull Island, the southernmost of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel's four man-made islands.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) is a 23-mile (37 km) long fixed link crossing the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and connecting the Delmarva Peninsula's Eastern Shore of Virginia with Virginia Beach and the metropolitan area of Hampton Roads, Virginia. It replaced vehicle ferry services which operated from South Hampton Roads and from the Virginia Peninsula from the 1930s until completion of the bridge-tunnel in 1964.
The bridge-tunnel originally combined 12 miles (19 km) of trestle, two 1-mile (1.6 km) long tunnels, four artificial islands, two high-level bridges, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) of causeway, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of approach roads—crossing the Chesapeake Bay and preserving traffic on the Thimble Shoals and Chesapeake shipping channels. The system remains one of only eight bridge-tunnel systems in the world, three of which are located in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Since it opened, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel has been crossed by more than 100 million vehicles. The CBBT complex carries U.S. Route 13, the main north–south highway on Virginia's Eastern Shore, and, as part of the East Coast's longstanding Ocean Highway, provides the only direct link between Virginia's Eastern Shore and South Hampton Roads regions, as well as an alternate route to link the Northeast and points in between with Norfolk and the Carolinas. The bridge-tunnel saves motorists 95 miles (153 km) and 1½ hours on a trip between Virginia Beach/Norfolk and points north and east of the Delaware Valley without going through the traffic congestion in the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. The $12 toll is partially offset by some savings of tolls in Maryland and Delaware on I-95.
Financed by toll revenue bonds, the bridge-tunnel was opened on April 15, 1964. It was officially named the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge-Tunnel in August 1987 after one of the civic leaders who had long worked for its development and operation. However, it continues to be best known as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
From 1995 to 1999, at a cost of almost $200 million, the capacity of the above-water portion was increased to four lanes. An upgrade of the two-lane tunnels was proposed but has not been carried out.
The CBBT was built by and is operated by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia governed by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission. The CBBT's costs are recovered through toll collections. In 2002, a Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) study commissioned by the Virginia General Assembly concluded that "given the inability of the state to fund future capital requirements of the CBBT, the District and Commission should be retained to operate and maintain the Bridge-Tunnel as a toll facility in perpetuity."
Under its mother’s watchful eye, a peregrine falcon chick is banded by NYC DEP Research Scientist Chris Nadareski atop the south tower of the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The chick, named Tillie, appeared healthy.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
MTA Bridges and Tunnels lent personnel and a fleet of 18 trucks and other pieces of heavy equipment to assist in the snow removal efforts in Suffolk County after a huge blizzard dumped up to 30 inches of snow across the County on February 8-9, 2013.
Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge in New York City aerial photo taken on December 22, 2013 - © 2014 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
The Henry Hudson Bridge under construction. Photographer: Richard Averill Smith, June 19, 1936. Photo courtesy of MTA Bridges and Tunnels Special Archive.
The Henry Hudson Bridge, connecting the northern tip of Manhattan to the Riverdale section of the Bronx, turns 75 on Monday, Dec. 12th. The Henry Hudson, at 800-feet, was the world's longest plate-girder, fixed arch bridge when it opened in December 1936. Click for more info.
Under its mother’s watchful eye, a peregrine falcon chick is banded by NYC DEP Research Scientist Chris Nadareski atop the south tower of the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The chick, named Tillie, appeared healthy.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
On Sunday, November 3, 2013, the MTA's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge hosted the first mile of the New York City Marathon.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Seven new peregrine falcon chicks are living in their parents’ nesting boxes high atop three MTA bridges. The new chicks include four newly hatched peregrines at Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial, two at Throgs Neck and one at the Verrazano-Narrows. They hatched in early May and were recently banded by wildlife specialist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s Wildlife Studies division. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
On 14th Oct 2018, 10000 Hong Kong protesters hold a rally from Causeway Bay to the Central Office, to protest the government 's plan to spend probably 1 trillion Hong Kong dollars to build artificial islands and accompanying bridges and tunnels in the East of Lantau Island.
The former "East Lantau Metropolis project" proposed to reclaim 1000 hectares , has been replaced this week by an even more ambitious project of "Lantau Tomorrow Vision " of reclaiming 1700 hectares to house 1.1million people by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, preempting the awaited public consultation report by the Task Force on Land Supply.
The protestors worried the project has not considered the risks under extreme weather, will irreversibly damage the environment, burn up the whole fiscal reserve, and deprive the public of the funding for other more important fields like medical , education, and retirement scheme.
Moreover the project , requiring 2 to 3 decades to complete , cannot cater for the immediate housing needs of the general public, as compared to other source of land supply such as the Fanling Golf Course , brownfield sites and buy back farmland from private estate developers for public housing.
大约一萬名市民於十月十四日參與由銅鑼灣至政總的遊行 ,抗議政府計劃用一萬億元填海及興建東大嶼人工島方案。
示威者認為政府的明日大嶼計劃填海1700公頃及其他的橋樑或隧道, 將會對環境造成不可挽回的影響, 亦未有考慮到人工島能否應付極端的天氣, 財政上會用盡香港的儲備, 亦令到沒有足夠財政資源用於醫療、教育及全民退休保障等。
示威者亦不滿政府亦未有等待土地供應小組的咨詢結果便公佈填海作為主要選項。但填海需時20至30年才提供到1.1百萬人的住宅, 相反其他土地供應選項如收回粉嶺哥爾夫球場、粽地、及用官地收回條例收回地產發展商的農地作公營房屋卻能夠比較快提供到房屋。
MTA Bridges and Tunnels officials, Staten Island elected officials and family members of fallen MTA Bridge and Tunnel Officer Thomas Choi attended a solemn ceremony September 28, 2015 to rename a portion of Major Avenue in honor of Choi, who was critically injured at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in October 2013. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
Street Near Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Renamed In Honor Of MTA Bridge and Tunnel Officer Thomas Choi
On Feb. 5, 2020, crews from MTA Bridges and Tunnels today replaced the first of 19 signs on agency property to feature the revised spelling of the bridge’s name, incorporating an additional ‘z’ in the name Verrazzano.
Photo: Patrick Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority
At the direction of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, MTA Bridges and Tunnels closed the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel at 2 p.m. on Monday, October 29, 2012, in advance of Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
On Feb. 5, 2020, crews from MTA Bridges and Tunnels replaced the first of 19 signs on agency property to feature the revised spelling of the bridge’s name, incorporating an additional ‘z’ in the name Verrazzano.
Photo: Patrick Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority
MTA Bridges and Tunnels wraps up installation of new environmentally friendly LED lights at the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the last of the agency’s four suspended spans to upgrade its “necklace” light fixtures that are part of the bridges’ architectural features. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin