A massive rehab of the Brooklyn Bridge will begin Aug. 23, keeping Manhattan-bound lanes closed most nights until 2014.
Starting Tonight, Brooklyn Brg Closed Most Nights
A massive rehab of the Brooklyn Bridge will begin Aug. 23, keeping Manhattan-bound lanes closed most nights until 2014.
Manhattan-bound lanes will close Monday through Friday from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., Saturdays from 12:01 a.m. to 7 a.m. and Sundays from 12:01 a.m. to 9 a.m., according to the city’s Department of Transportation.
Brooklyn-bound lanes and pedestrian paths will stay open during construction. Cars leaving Brooklyn will be directed to the Manhattan Bridge.
The $508 million job will double the capacity of two clogged ramps, replace rotting pavement and repaint steel to prevent corrosion.
The rehab will cost the city $286 million, officials said. The remaining funds will come from the federal government, including $30 million from the stimulus bill.
The project will employ hundreds of New Yorkers, Mayor Bloomberg has said, and marks the first major construction on the bridge in a decade.
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Let’s see… The original bridge cost 15.1mln in 1883 dollars. Adjusted for 2273% inflation, that is 343mln in todays’ dollars.
That included the digging, the towers, spinning the cables and building the decks.
Today they are spending 508mln (and they never keep to the estimate) just on new ramps and a paint.