New Design for Kosciuszko Bridge Set in Stone
A new design’s been chosen for the rehabilitation of the Kosciuszko Bridge. The design, one out of four proposed to Brooklyn and Queens residents, is the same one the Brooklyn Paper called the front runner last November. Along with a new aesthetic, the bridge will be widened from six to nine lanes and get a…
A new design’s been chosen for the rehabilitation of the Kosciuszko Bridge. The design, one out of four proposed to Brooklyn and Queens residents, is the same one the Brooklyn Paper called the front runner last November. Along with a new aesthetic, the bridge will be widened from six to nine lanes and get a shoulder and a bike lane. Gone will be Kosciuszko’s steep incline. The billion dollars needed to build it has been lined up through federal funding, with a tentative completion date of 2017.
Meet the New Kosc [Brooklyn Paper]
New Kosciuszko Bridge Won’t Come Cheap [Brownstoner]
Looks like a competent bridge to me. 7 years of design and construction doesn’t seem like a long time for something like that, maybe a bit optimistic. The reason things take so long here is that somehow, all of the existing traffic that uses the bridge will need to be accommodated somewhere. It’s not like we’re out in the desert building a bridge that goes to places where nobody has gone before.
I don’t get why people have it in their heads that unions are a cause of delay on large projects like this. Union labor tends to be better trained, and the rules aren’t so hard to follow. Anyway, the stuff you learn building and renovating brownstones doesn’t really apply to bridge building. It’s a different animal all together.
It looks kind of lame, at least from that angle.
Also, would be nice if new bridge wasn’t framed by old disgusting…
calatrava knock off
How many people died in the construction of the Shanghai bridge? How many people were thrown into the street without compensation? No way to know. Yes, truly amazing, but the price of progress in China is not something to admire.
“Barack Obama is a socialist muslim” is the kind of “thinking” that spawned the Tea Party.
Ishtar… yes, that’s the Donghai. It’s just amazing that Shanghai has been able to build an entirely new infrastructure; bridges, tunnels, subways, highways in less than 20 years. Obviously, there’s a different take on eminent domain there, but not much different when Moses built our current systems. NY just feels as though it is falling further behind.
buttermilk, I took this crazy bridge that was 20 miles long and lead to an island in the sea that is a major shipping port for Shanghai. It was crazy that they built that bridge in just under 3 years. I think it’s called the Donghai.
DIBS, 1B to build a bridge to somewhere in NYC (& construction jobs) is better than the billions to banks who are still doing carry trades. Plus I’m view this selfish as a NYC resident – ie why bitch when the rest of the country is paying for this bridge (bitch when we funding some other areas’ bridge building)
Actually, DIBS, on the Queens side heading into BK, four or five lanes feed into it — that’s part of the problem. There’s a 2 lane merge from the LIE into 3 lanes of BQE and a blind spot at the top. Heading into Queens there is a back up with the exit onto the LIE as everyone merges over into it. A second lane that can exit onto LIE without a merge while preserving three free flowing lanes onto BQE makes lots of sense.