Thursday, April 10, 2014

82-Year-Old Pulaski Skyway to Get Much-Needed Rehabilitation

Photo source:  Library of Congress

Drivers in New Jersey to Lose Link as Pulaski Skyway Route Closes.   (The New York Times, 4/9/2014)

Time for an upgrade.   The integrity of the structure, which opened in 1932, has grown increasingly worrisome in recent years, officials said; its roadbed and concrete railings are so frayed that the state installed netting to catch the falling debris.

“We can’t put any more Band-Aids on the bridge,” James S. Simpson, the New Jersey transportation commissioner, said on Monday as he examined the underside of the bridge from a construction lift in Jersey City. “The patient is 82 years old.”

Pulaski Skyway rehabilitation

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