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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
View of Brooklyn main span gantry crane south side upper strut. Photo: Tutor Perini /MTA Bridges and Tunnels. July 2014.
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
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
One of the important bits stopping the Eleanor Schonell Bridge from falling into the Brisbane River.
The Eleanor Schonell Bridge is a 390-metre (1,280 ft)-long cable-stayed bridge which crosses the Brisbane River between Dutton Park and the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus opened on 17 Dec 2006, and is the first bridge in Australia exclusively designed for buses, cyclists and pedestrians.
Eleanor Schonell was renowned for her work with dyslexia, cerebral palsy and the education of children with intellectual disabilities.
Ironically that didn't help a 21 year old University student Whitney Heuvel who urged his friends to use a cellular phone to film him jumping off the bridge. Intoxicated, he misjudged the rails and fell to his death.
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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
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
Museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, commuter rail, and bridge and tunnel systems.
Lifting out section of existing center median at Verrazano-Narrows Bridge using overhead gantry crane as part of upper deck replacement work. Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Tutor Perini
Vehicles impounded by TBTA at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during Persistent Toll Violator interdiction operations on Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Rainy day but still this bridge is impressive.
7 Days of Shooting Bridges and Tunnels Anything goes Saturday
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
Work being done on the $109 million reconstruction and widening of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge’s Queens approach by contractors E.E. Cruz and Tully Construction Co. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the Bridges and Tunnels group at my suggestion.
This is a railway bridge over a road in my home town. The bridge was constructed when the road was built under the railway line.
I took several photos here but I particularly liked this one with the suspicious look I was getting from the passing stranger :)
Date: 22.03.2011
Location: Amsterdam Noord, Mosveld
Wall: 650 m2 of the complete bridge and tunnel walls
All artists of the Urban Art Exchange SH(OUT)!!! painted together the complete bridge and tunnel walls at the Mosplein in Amsterdam Noord. A common color scheme for the styels and the background was chosen by the organisation crew. During a preparation meeting the wall space was divided amon the artists in order to get a good composition of stylewriters and characters.
URBAN ART MURALISM - ARTIST EXCHANGE in AMSTERDAM
A group of 36 Urban Artists coming from six European countries – Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France and Austria – took part in the European Art Exchange Project “SH(OUT)!!!” from 18.03.11 to 27.03.11 in Amsterdam.
The main activities included several mural paintings in the city of Amsterdam, an exhibition in the Dokhuis Gallery as well as a common art workshop with local young people.
Nowadays Urban Art has worldwide acceptance as a young art form. Urban Artists form and transform public spaces and present their work, free of charge, throughout the cities. The event gives respect and pays tribute to art from the streets and makes this art form more accessible to a broader audience through various live painting activities in the city, two innovative group exhibitions and workshops.
Visit our website: www.urban-art-muralism.com/
Check our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/urbanartattack
For several years now, on two Saturdays shortly before Christmas, Ensignbus of Rainham, Essex, have boosted their X80 service between Bluewater and Lakeside Shopping Centres (either side of the Thames and linked by the Dartford Crossing bridge and tunnel) using a variety of historic old buses. One used in 2008 was East London Bus Group's RM1933. This bus is one of those retained to work some journeys on service 15 between Trafalgar Square and Tower Hill. This one is painted in an historic livery to mark the 100th anniversary of Bow bus garage and the 75th anniversary of London Transport. The location is Greenhithe station. Behind the bus are some works in connection with the extension of the 'Fastrack' bus system that serves this developing area.
Driver Batchelor and conductor Gillespie doing the honours.
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 Joseph Vasquez.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast along with MTA Bridges and Tunnels officials celebrated the anniversary of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge 50 years to the day after it opened. The event was held at the Overlook inside the National Park Service's Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
MTA Bridges and Tunnels and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection work together to assist falcons that reside atop the Throgs Neck Bridge.
DEP’s Chris Nadareski measures chick for band.
Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Frank Desouza.
and still intact - The "Alter Elbtunnel" underneath the river Elbe in the port of Hamburg area.
Der "Alte Elbtunnel" in Hamburg feiert in diesem Jahr seinen 100. Geburtstag/Jubiläum.
Der 1911 eröffnete Sankt Pauli-Elbtunnel – in Abgrenzung zum neuen Elbtunnel auch Alter Elbtunnel genannt – ist 426,5 Meter lang und verbindet mit seinen zwei Röhren die Innenstadt Hamburgs bei den St.-Pauli-Landungsbrücken mit Steinwerder Er unterquert die Norderelbe und wird noch heute als öffentlicher Verkehrsweg genutzt. Er galt bei seiner Eröffnung als technische Sensation und steht seit 2003 unter Denkmalschutz. Er wurde 2007 für die Auszeichnung als Historisches Wahrzeichen der Ingenieurbaukunst in Deutschland nominiert
In 2011 the "Old Elbtunnel" will be 100 years old.
This pic shows the western tube.
Old Elbe Tunnel or St. Pauli Elbe Tunnel (German: Alter Elbtunnel (coll.) or St. Pauli Elbtunnel (official name)) (opened 1911), is a pedestrian and vehicle tunnel in Hamburg, Germany. The 426 m (1,398 ft) long tunnel was a technical sensation; 24 m (80 ft) beneath the surface, two tubes with 6 m (20 ft) diameter connect central Hamburg with the docks and shipyards on the south side of the river Elbe. This meant a big improvement for tens of thousands of workers in one of the busiest harbours in the world.
Four huge lifts on either side of the tunnel carried pedestrians, carriages and motor vehicles to the bottom. They are still in operation, though due to the limited capacity by today's standards, other bridges and tunnels have been built and taken over most of the traffic.
In 2008 approx 300.000 cars, 63.000 bicycles and 700.000 pedestrians used the tunnel. The tunnel is opened 24 hours for pedestrians and bicycles. For motorized vehicles opening times are currently Monday to Friday from 5.20 AM to 8.00 PM.
A view of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel from One Island on the Bay/Sea Gull Island, the southernmost of the 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."
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.
Siller honor guard at the annual Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run, commemorating the FDNY firefighter’s run through the tunnel to the World Trade Center on 9/11 on Sunday September 29, 2013. Photo: MTA photo/B&T Director of Central Operations Daniel DeCrescenzo
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).
This shot was taken through a small gap in the fence surrounding the worksite at Cherrybrook Station. It shows part of the 'station box' and the down tunnel heading towards Epping and Chatswood.
Persistent toll violator vehicles interdicted by TBTA at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
(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
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
VWS9436 Copyright © VW Selburn 2019: It's amazing some of the sights one can see from a coach window. The Italians seem to be pretty good at bridge and tunnel building. This is how they build bridges.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo toured the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel (formerly known as the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel) on Oct. 30, 2012, with MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph J. Lhota and Jim Ferrara, President of MTA Bridges and Tunnels. The tunnel flooded during Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
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I don't know what makes me happier...the fact that I actually seem to have found my creative juju again or the fact that I, for the first time in 13 years, fit into my wedding dress today.
I tried it on, on a lark, only to find out that it did up...with a teeny bit of room to spare! I do think that this means I've lost the 100lbs I've been targeting... or at least the 100lbs of fat...this whole muscle building thing is great...however when one loses 2 inches but gains 10lbs it leaves one feeling baffled.
Not to mention wondering where the 10 lbs of muscle packed on...until she tries on her beautiful tall winter boots...and realizes each calf gain 5lbs of solid muscle! I'll take it!
Persistent Toll Violator vehicles interdicted by MTA Bridges & Tunnels at the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge on Thursday, Feb 9, 2023.
(Aaron Donovan / MTA)
NYC Department of Environmental Protection Research Scientist Chris Nadareski atop the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Bridge on Wed., May 21, 2020, where he 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
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
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.
The "Champlain" docks at the Port Kent Ferry Wharf
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Built as the “City of Hampton”, this ferry had a length of 148 feet and was powered by one 550 HP direct reversible diesel engine. The pistons have a 14” bore X 17” stroke with a maximum RPM of 250.
With the opening of several bridges and tunnels The City of Hampton became one of several ferries to be disposed of by the Virginia Department of Highways in 1957. She ran in Hampton Rhodes on a crossing from Old Point Comfort (Fort Monroe) to Willoughby on the Norfolk side. Part of the crossing was in shallow water, so the City of Hampton was built with a flat bottom.
Lake Champlain Transportation purchased the City of Hampton in November of 1957, and made arrangements for her to be towed from Norfolk, Virginia and Waterford, New York. While in Waterford, the upper deck was carefully cut loose and lowered onto the main deck. This would give her enough clearance to pass under the low bridges during the northward trip to Lake Champlain. Renamed the “Champlain”, she joins the Valcour and the Adirondack on the Burlington-to-Port Kent crossing. ferries.com/about/history/
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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.
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
NYC Department of Environmental Protection Research Scientist Chris Nadareski atop the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Wed., May 21, 2020, where he 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
NYC DEP Research scientist Chris Nadareski sits with falcon. One baby boy and 3 baby girl peregrine falcons are banded atop the Rockaway tower of the Marine Parkway Bridge. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
Grand Central Terminal 03/05/2015 11h51
A small satellite of the New York Transit Museum is located in the Grand Central Terminal. The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, commuter rail, and bridge and tunnel systems under the administration of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The main Museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
More information: Wikipedia - New York Transit Museum.
Grand Central Terminal
FACTS & FIGURES
Location: 89 East 42nd Street at Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Owned by: Midtown TDR Ventures (leased to Metro-North Railroad)
Opened: 1871
Rebuilt: 1913, 1994–2000
Lines: Hudson Line - Harlem Line - New Haven Line - New Canaan Branch - Danbury Branch
Platforms: 44 high-level platforms (43 island platforms, 1 side platform, 6 tracks with Spanish solution)
Tracks: 67 (41 on upper level, 26 on lower level)
Levels: 2
Built: 1903
Architect: Reed and Stem & Warren and Wetmore
Architectural style: Beaux-Arts
[ Source & more Info: Wikipedia - Grand Central Terminal ]
Quote from a web page about the Concrete Ships: "In December 1948, nine McCloskey ships (made out of concrete) were partially sunk to form a ferry breakwater off the coast of Kiptopeke Beach, Virginia.
After the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel, the ferry was put out of business; however, the breakwater still protects the beach and provides a home for coastal fish and birds."
We anchored our sailboat behind the breakwater, and from the boat took this shot.
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 / Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
Present day aerial view of Henry Hudson Bridge. The 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. Photo courtesy of MTA Bridges and Tunnels Special Archive.
Persistent toll violator vehicles interdicted by TBTA at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Roads in orange, railroads in green. The main arteries can clearly be seen.
As expected, the most assiduous moles are living in the Alps. Also remarkable: the Autoroute embankments in France and the series of tunnels for the ICE high speed tracks in Germany.
Technical note: For identification of tunnels and bridges, I have used the LLE tag of the road and rail shape files provided by EuroGeographics: values lesser than 0 are below surface, values of 2 and more above surface, elements tagged 1 (on surface) and 0 (unknown) being omitted. That's why there are obviously no railroad tunnels/bridges in Italy and Spain!
Transport network data: EuroGlobalMaps v7.0 © EuroGeographics. Original product is freely available at www.eurogeographics.org
Fellow "Flickr-holic" Bridges and Tunnels and I took our annual trip to Sydney's Northwest on 29 December 2015 to review progress on Metro Northwest (AKA the North West Rail Link).
Five photos describing activity at the corner of Windsor and Schofields Road during the construction of the sky bridge at this point.
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