The satellite image still has just the old bridge. So I have captured a "before" image. I'll have to check back in a couple of years to get an "after" image.
We seem to have lost another truss bridge to two cable stay bridges.
1928: (
Bridge Hunter,
Historic Bridges,
HAER)
2017+2018: (no Bridge Hunter)
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Photo from HAER NY,43-___,2--1 from ny1806
[Note the long approaches to get the needed 140' shipping clearance are significant bridge structures in themselves. Actually, the clearance mid-span is 138.5' minimum @ MHW. [panynj-facts] I assume MHW is Mean High Water.] |
I can't believe it, the Port Authority of NY & NJ has restricted access to
their rendered image. This is the first time I have seen an organization that is trying to sell a bridge project not allow their renderings of that project to be copied. Fortunately, very few people read these notes. So I doubt if anyone who cares will see this copy. Note that the cables help hold up part of the long approaches that such a high-clearance bridge needs.
Construction began in 2014.
A gallery of 18 images of the building of the new bridge.
Traffic was switched from the old truss to the first cable stay bridge during the weekend of June 10, 2017. The first photo in
New Goethals Bridge opens shows the second cable stay bridge is well underway. So they did not have to get rid of the old one to make room for the second cablestay bridge.
As one would expect with a cantilevered truss,
the suspended span was lowered to a barge.
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Webcam Jan 15, 2018 [You can see the installation of the hydraulic jacks at both ends of the suspended span.] |
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Webcam Jan 16, 2018
[The span has been lowered.] |
Photos from the perspective of crane workers and/or fans.
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Ryan Spirito posted
12000 and mlc300 top view
Rob McGrady I would love to take an aerial shot from the helicopter just to show how many cranes we have in that small area lol
[A comment observed how the shot shows how long the tracks are on the 12000 that is straight down.] |
Keith Eller
posted three photos.
The Goethals Bridge
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MLC 300 in series #? |
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Ryan Spirito posted
Last two pieces of the gothels bridge of main span mlc 300 |
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Jeff Boyce commented on Ryan's posting |
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RoadBridges
"Because the site is just a few miles from Newark Liberty International Airport, maximum tower height was 272 ft, which drove unusually shallow cable angles. A unique anchor box shaped like a saddle allowed the cables to be stacked more tightly than a traditional anchor box, increasing the stay angles. It also allowed for the anchor boxes to be placed on the outside facing the towers, which allowed Parsons to keep the profiles for the towers slender.
'None of the steel fabricators would even bid on it until we printed a 3-D model,' Seth Condell, design manager for Parsons, told Roads & Bridges." |
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Screenshot of timelapse @ 1:40
After a four-year construction process, the new Goethals Bridge linking New York and New Jersey is officially open. The new $1.5 billion twin-span cable-stayed bridge replaces the original bridge built in 1928. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and design-build team Kiewit-Weeks-Massman, AJV relied on EarthCam’s panoramic cameras and portable Mobile TrailerCam solution to document the complex process, which can been seen with EarthCam’s new 4K construction time-lapse movie. |
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safe_image for New Goethals Bridge Set to Open to Traffic on Monday [posted May 21, 2018]Both spans of the new Goethals Bridge that connects Elizabeth, NJ, and Staten Island, NY, are now open. Late Sunday evening, the westbound bridge opened to traffic. The eastbound bridge has been in service since June 2017. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said: “The completion and opening of the second span of the Goethals Bridge project represents one of the most important infrastructure enhancements undertaken in the New Jersey-New York metro region in more than eight decades.” Congratulations to our project team and joint venture partners for their hard work on this project. [The towers were dirty before the bridge was done being built?] |
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safe_image for Goethals Bridge: ENR New York's Project of the Year [paycount] Our Goethals Bridge Replacement project was named ENR New York's Project of the Year. Congratulations to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the entire project team. [The article describes how they handled the tower height limit of 272' and the requirement that they slant outwards. The design anticipates adding a mass transit lane in the middle between the two spans.] |
Massman's project web page contains five photos with the comment:
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LC-DIG-highsm- 45371 Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Carol M. Highsmith's photographs are in the public domain. |