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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.

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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 Queens Midtown Tunnel flooded during Hurricane Sandy. MTA personnel were able to reopen the tunnel to buses on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, to cars on Friday, November 9, and to trucks on Friday, November 16.

Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Mark Valentin

New York City- Joint Task Force Empire Shield (JTF-ES) 2nd Lieutenant Kay Ann Stewart, 145th Service Maintenance Company, 369th Sustainment Brigade and Sergeant Arden Pickering, 427th Charlie Company Brigade Support Battalion, 27th Brigade Combat Team, New York Army National Guard assigned to Alpha Company JTF- ES, patrol JFK International Airport Terminal One, as one of their assigned patrol locations with JTF -ES.

JTF -ES is the state’s standing military organization that plans and prepares for defense support to civil authority missions throughout the New York City area and is jointly staffed with Army and Air National Guard personnel along with members of the New York Naval Militia and New York Guard.

The service members on JTF-ES augment the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Police at Penn Station, Grand Central Station in New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) at John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia Airports, the New State Police and the Tunnel Bridge and Toll Authority (TBTA) at the various bridges and tunnels in the New York City area. Division of Military and Naval Affairs Photos by New York Guard Captain Mark Getman.

Bridges and Tunnels Chief of Staff, Health Safety speaks to employees during a Safety Stand-down program on December 9, 2013. Photo: MTA / Patrick Cashin

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.

New York City- Soldiers assigned to Bravo Company Joint Task Force Empire Shield (JTF-ES) during recent patrols at Amtrack Train station in New York City. Sergeant Demble and Specialist Postigo assist tourist with directions and patrol the ticketing/waiting areas.

JTF -ES is the state’s standing military organization that plans and prepares for defense support to civil authority missions throughout the New York City area and is jointly staffed with Army and Air National Guard personnel along with members of the New York Naval Militia and New York Guard.

The service members on JTF-ES augment the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Police at Penn Station, Grand Central Station in New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) at John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia Airports, the New State Police and the Tunnel Bridge and Toll Authority (TBTA) at the various bridges and tunnels in the New York City area.

Joint Task Force Empire Shield is constantly planning to meet security threats in conjunction with New York State and municipal emergency and security managements, providing surge forces much more rapidly for New York City law enforcement and first responders. Division of Military and Naval Affairs Photos by New York Guard Captain Mark Getman

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.

On Monday, October 22, 2012, the former Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel was renamed the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel in honor of New York State's 51st Governor.

This photo shows MTA Bridges and Tunnels maintenance and operations personnel surrounding Jim Ferrara, President of MTA Bridges and Tunnels, and Marc Mende, General Manager of the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel.

The ceremony was attended by New York State Lieutenant Governor Robert J. Duffy, NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, former Governor Mario Cuomo, former Governor and MTA Board member David A. Paterson, MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph J. Lhota, members of the Carey family, and staff of MTA Bridges and Tunnels.

Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.

New York City- Joint Task Force Empire Shield (JTF-ES) Specialist Jamiek McDowell, 1569th Transportation Company, 369th Sustainment Brigade, New York Army National Guard assigned to Delta Company JTF- ES, during a recent patrol at the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

JTF -ES is the state’s standing military organization that plans and prepares for defense support to civil authority missions throughout the New York City area and is jointly staffed with Army and Air National Guard personnel along with members of the New York Naval Militia and New York Guard.

The service members on JTF-ES augment the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Police at Penn Station, Grand Central Station in New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) at John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia Airports, the New State Police and the Tunnel Bridge and Toll Authority (TBTA) at the various bridges and tunnels in the New York City area. Division of Military and Naval Affairs Photos by New York Guard Captain Mark Getman.

The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connects Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn and Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, across the Narrows--a tidal strait where the Hudson River empties in the Atlantic Ocean. Named after Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, who, in 1524, was the first European explorer to sail into New York Harbor, it is referred to by locals as just the Verrazano Bridge. When it opened in 1964, its 4,260 center span made it the longest suspension bridge in the world--a distinction it held until 1981.

The last great public works project overseen by Robert Moses, the New York State Parks Commissioner and head of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, it served as one of the final links of the New York City expressway system. It was also the final project by Chief Engineer Othmar Anmann, who also designed the George Washington Bridge, Bayonne Bridge, Whitestone Bridge, Triborough Bridge and Throgs Neck Bridge. Construction began on August 13, 1959 and the upper deck was opened on November 21, 1964 at a cost of over $320 million. New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony, which was attended by over 5,000 people. The lower deck opened on June 28, 1969.

The bridge is widely known by non New Yorkers as the starting point of the New York City Marathon. It also serves as the gateway to New York Harbor--all cruise ships and most container ships arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey must pass underneath it.

At the 2013 Atlantic Antic in Brooklyn, MTA Bridges and Tunnels showcased a number of the trucks and heavy machinery it uses to maintain the MTA's vehicular bridges and tunnels.

Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels.

The Queens Midtown Tunnel flooded during Hurricane Sandy. MTA personnel were able to reopen the tunnel to buses on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, to cars on Friday, November 9, and to trucks on Friday, November 16.

Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Mark Valentin

Bridges and Tunnels Director of Facility Operations/Special Projects Al Rivera speaks to employees during a Safety Stand-down program on December 9, 2013. Photo: MTA / Patrick Cashin

Discover your route! To the 1947 back-seat driver, please dictate the course.

Created by Andrews and Clark Consulting Engineers. Distributed by Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.

The Queens Midtown Tunnel flooded during Hurricane Sandy. MTA personnel were able to reopen the tunnel to buses on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, to cars on Friday, November 9, and to trucks on Friday, November 16.

Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Mark Valentin

The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connects Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn and Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, across the Narrows--a tidal strait where the Hudson River empties in the Atlantic Ocean. Named after Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, who, in 1524, was the first European explorer to sail into New York Harbor, it is referred to by locals as just the Verrazano Bridge. When it opened in 1964, its 4,260 center span made it the longest suspension bridge in the world--a distinction it held until 1981.

The last great public works project overseen by Robert Moses, the New York State Parks Commissioner and head of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, it served as one of the final links of the New York City expressway system. It was also the final project by Chief Engineer Othmar Anmann, who also designed the George Washington Bridge, Bayonne Bridge, Whitestone Bridge, Triborough Bridge and Throgs Neck Bridge. Construction began on August 13, 1959 and the upper deck was opened on November 21, 1964 at a cost of over $320 million. New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony, which was attended by over 5,000 people. The lower deck opened on June 28, 1969.

The bridge is widely known by non New Yorkers as the starting point of the New York City Marathon. It also serves as the gateway to New York Harbor--all cruise ships and most container ships arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey must pass underneath it.

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 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.

Sergeant Anthony Powell.

Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit

While walking at Shenck's Ferry Wildflower Preserve we came across this nervous friend. We had shot many flowers that day. We came across this bridge and tunnel and he was at the entrance to the tunnel behind him. We visited just briefly and I moved on to the tunnel area. We parted as we met, with caution.

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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.

Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Marisa Baldeo.

At the 2013 Atlantic Antic in Brooklyn, MTA Bridges and Tunnels showcased a number of the trucks and heavy machinery it uses to maintain the MTA's vehicular bridges and tunnels.

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

Phillipston bridge moved successfully into place.

Chief Engineer Frank Tramontozzi, Administrator Luisa Paiewonsky, Deputy Chief Engineer for Bridges and Tunnels Shoukry Elnahal, and Design/Build Manager Christine Mizioch smiling as the SPMTs move the last inch into place.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announces that MTA bridges and tolls will become a cashless toll collection system using E-Zpass or direct billing via mail. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announces that MTA bridges and tolls will become a cashless toll collection system using E-Zpass or direct billing via mail.

Bill Murrow, Secretary to the Governor

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

Tom Prendergast, Chairman MTA

Superintendent George Beach, New York State Police

This is the Pont du Gard, a famous Roman Aqueduct on the Gardon River in France.

This monumental structure spanning the Gardon River valley is 275 metres long, 49 metres high, 6 metres wide at the base, 3 metres wide at the top and has a total of fifty three arches. It is only one part of a fifty kilometre aqueduct which supplied Roman Nimes with fresh water. It is estimated to have carried twenty thousand cubic metres per day.

It was built using six-ton stone blocks, coloured a delicate shade of pink, laid dry, and is a technological and aesthetic masterpiece.

Through poor maintenance, the aqueduct gradually became unusable in the 9th Century.

But the many times restored Pont du Gard, still remains its haughty air even after nearly two thousand years.

From a tourist book on La Provence (English version)

Begun around 19 BC, this bridge is part of an aqueduct which transported water from a spring near Uzes to Roman Nimes. An underground channel, bridges and tunnels were engineered to carry the 20 million litre (4.4 million gallon) daily water supply 50 km (31 miles).

The three-tiered structure of the Pont du Gard spans the Gardon valley and was the tallest aqueduct in the Roman empire.

Its huge limestone blocks, some as heavy as 6 tonnes, were erected without mortar. The water channel covered by stone slabs, was in the top tier of the three. Skillfully designed cutwaters ensured that the bridge has resisted many violent floods.

It is not known for certain how long the aqueduct continued in use but it may still have been functioning as late as the 9th century AD.

The adjacent road bridge was erected in the 1700s.

Taken from DK Eyewitness Travel: Provence & The Cote D'Azur

One last look at the bridge, before going up the paths, for higher views.

Persistent toll violator vehicles interdicted by TBTA at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)

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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.

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

Bridges and Tunnels Executive VP & Chief of Operations James Fortunato speaks to employees during a Safety Stand-down program on December 9, 2013. Photo: MTA / Patrick Cashin

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.

Sergeant Kristopher Owens.

Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit

MTA Bridges and Tunnels celebrates 90th anniversary with presentation and speeches highlighting achievements over the decades.

Mary Hedge, Bridges and Tunnels Administrative Special Archives

Courtesy of MTA / Trent Reeves

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 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.

Sergeant Kristopher Owens.

Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit

Left, Bridges and Tunnels Director of Facility Operations/Special Projects Patrick J. Parisi, and Right, Bridges and Tunnels Acting Vice President of Operations Patrick J. Parisi speak to employees during a Safety Stand-down program on December 9, 2013. Photo: MTA / Patrick Cashin

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

Security light broken and damaged by Superstorm Sandy is pictured here. Security and marine navigation lights at MTA Bridges and Tunnels’ Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, destroyed by Superstorm Sandy, are functioning once again under a $686,000 project that was completed ahead of schedule and within budget.

MTA Bridges and Tunnels

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.

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 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 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 MTA Construction & Development have completed a tower pedestal restoration project at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge three months ahead of schedule and under budget. The work involved restoration of the pedestals and foundations at the Brooklyn and Staten Island towers of the bridge.

Pictured: Completed Staten Island pedestals.

Vehicles impounded by TBTA at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during Persistent Toll Violator interdiction operations on Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023.

(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)

It's been a while since I was last out taking photographs, which can be blamed on a mixture of the festive season and poor weather. The former means I'm working more days and longer shifts whilst the latter means I'm spending what free time I get driving trucks across virtual Europe. You might not want to question that last part...

So that no-one thinks my Flickr page has become as abandoned as the places I tend to photograph, I'm going to fire up a short series of my favourite photos from the last year, organised by theme. The first theme is unsurprisingly, bridges and tunnels. I recently did a run-down of the best bridges and tunnels I visited exclusively in 2013 on the blog, should you want to read a little more about these places.

In the top, left hand corner is the remains of the Alloa Swing Bridge. This photo is one of my all time favourites and proof that if you drive 50 miles from home at stupid o'clock in the morning, you'll get the results you want. The tunnel in the top, right hand corner is the Ravenscar Tunnel, which isn't especially long but it's very colourful and provided great shelter from the lashing rain and roaring winds that the Yorkshire coast was being battered with that day.

The tunnel shows in the bottom, left photo has provided me with some of the best tunnel photos I've taken and it's vibrant history, long length wealth of interesting features meant that the end of a six hour photo session down here felt short and somewhat rushed at the end. Finally, in the bottom, right hand corner we have the heavyweight champion, the Bilston Glen Viaduct. This viaduct's massive metal superstructure strikes a definitive path across a steep sided gorge and despite it's size and it's strength, it manages to pull off this feat with elegance and grace.

Hopefully the weather will change soon and I'll be able to go out and photograph some stuff soon. This year I'd like to tick off the viaducts of Scotland's south western corner and the Leaderfoot Viaduct. As for tunnels, I've visited almost all the ones on my list now so bar the inevitable revisit to the Neidpath, I'd like to see Loch Oich and perhaps Broomieknowe. When it comes to tunnels, I'll have to start travelling south of the border more often.

We don't usually leave the hut on these types of amateur nights. Between my ephebiphobia and all the bridge and tunnel rats that overrun the City on any bank holiday, it isn't safe to even joke about going out. But I can be bribed with certain things. One of which is booze. Bonus if it's good- but clearly I'll drink anything (that's the methyphilia talking, I have so many conditions! Nurse! Nurse!). Plus, the company proved irresistible, and further, it was a chance to take the new smoking jacket out for a test drink, er, I mean drive.

The tux shirt is a point collar opposed to the more common, but more formal, wing collar. A brilliant feature is the strip of removable shirt buttons stitched onto a hidden piece of twill tape. That allows me to choose between regular shirt buttons or studs. The robe is a vintage flammable polyester wonder from Sears. I have trouble imagining when they made such objects d'art, but I'd guess sometime in the late '60s. This isn't the Sears I grew up with in the 1970s, which was the more prole Craftsman tools Sears, and not the Daddy Warbuck's-lesser-cousin-who-sold-his-family-shares-and-took-up-with-a-B-list-actress Sears seen here. Once again I forgot a pocket square.

As is fairly well known, smoking jackets were originally employed to preserve a man's finer clothing from reeking of night of ashing on oneself. And in this regard my gilt patterned plastic friend performed keenly. The next morning my shirt revealed almost no hint of cigar(s) from the night before, and instead, held only a delicate bouquet of the eau de champagne that had been seeping from my pores all night. Eras ago smoking caps were similarly used to prevent one's hair from being impregnated with a smoky odor, but since I clearly wear a wig, I just removed it and stuffed it in the one of the oversize patch pockets of the smoking jacket.

Tie: Brooks Brothers

Shirt: Brooks Brothers

Robe: Sears

Trousers: (I've since forgotten, but let's be serious, it seems like I only have Banana Republic & Co. bottoms, so it's safe to guess BR)

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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

This is the Pont du Gard, a famous Roman Aqueduct on the Gardon River in France.

This monumental structure spanning the Gardon River valley is 275 metres long, 49 metres high, 6 metres wide at the base, 3 metres wide at the top and has a total of fifty three arches. It is only one part of a fifty kilometre aqueduct which supplied Roman Nimes with fresh water. It is estimated to have carried twenty thousand cubic metres per day.

It was built using six-ton stone blocks, coloured a delicate shade of pink, laid dry, and is a technological and aesthetic masterpiece.

Through poor maintenance, the aqueduct gradually became unusable in the 9th Century.

But the many times restored Pont du Gard, still remains its haughty air even after nearly two thousand years.

From a tourist book on La Provence (English version)

Begun around 19 BC, this bridge is part of an aqueduct which transported water from a spring near Uzes to Roman Nimes. An underground channel, bridges and tunnels were engineered to carry the 20 million litre (4.4 million gallon) daily water supply 50 km (31 miles).

The three-tiered structure of the Pont du Gard spans the Gardon valley and was the tallest aqueduct in the Roman empire.

Its huge limestone blocks, some as heavy as 6 tonnes, were erected without mortar. The water channel covered by stone slabs, was in the top tier of the three. Skillfully designed cutwaters ensured that the bridge has resisted many violent floods.

It is not known for certain how long the aqueduct continued in use but it may still have been functioning as late as the 9th century AD.

The adjacent road bridge was erected in the 1700s.

Taken from DK Eyewitness Travel: Provence & The Cote D'Azur

The River Gard looking towards the beaches on the river (Rive Droite).

The four-year, nearly $200 million project to reconstruct the Bronx approach roadway at the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, providing drivers with wider 12-foot lanes and brand new safety shoulders, is entering the final phase of construction.

Overnight concrete pours will take place over two weeks starting Wednesday night April 11th, which requires the closure of two southbound lanes heading into Queens. Motorists should expect delays and use the Throgs Neck Bridge as an alternate. The work is dependent on good weather.

The project included the reconstruction of 1,785-feet of elevated roadway at the Bronx end of the bridge as well as the construction of 15 new double-arch concrete piers beneath the bridge that helped support the wider 12-foot lanes and the new safety shoulders.

All of this was accomplished while an average 104,000 vehicles continued using the bridge each day. During the year-long permanent lane closure a reversible lane was used to maintain three traffic lanes during peak drive times to the Bronx in the morning and to Queens in the evening.

Roadway level work will be completed by the summer and the entire project, including final work below the roadway, will be finished on schedule by the end of the year. The contractor on the project, which began in December 2008, is Conti of New York, LLC.

Photo courtesy of GPI/Parsons and Conti.