Posted on 11/02/2013 11:02:24 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
ALBANY — In a major boost for the state, the federal government has awarded New York the low-interest loan it was seeking to help pay for the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge.
The feds agreed to lend up to $1.6 billion — the largest loan ever given out under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act — to fund a third of the anticipated costs for the new bridge over the Hudson River.
It’s everything we’ve been looking for and more,” Cuomo crowed on public radio.
Earlier this week, Standard & Poor’s reduced the Thruway Authority’s bond rating from an A-plus to an A, citing concern on how much tolls will go up to pay for the new bridge.
“And damaged vehicle suspensions.”
Lol, you just reminded me of when I was little and my dad used to say he could drink plain milk, and then Bosco, and by the time he got to work it would be like he drank chocolate milk. It’s a lot funnier now that I understand what he meant.
“it’s likely fear of the Hudson river water that repels the bridge structure”
Hilarious!
Another Obama bribe and fix to the Democrats of New York. Cuomo’s gonna run for something.
Hell, they could have asked Bloomturd for the money. He’s got it. Why won’t the cheapskate part with some of it? Answer: Because he’s a buffon, a narcisstic asshole and a cheapskate. Now that wasn’t hard, was it?
Never ever dare to open a soda after driving on the Crappan Zee.
You will regret it.
Words to live by, repeated to me often by my father when he drove a route to repair elevators.
Heading back from the Yonkers armory one day, I got the unique experience of “Dukes of Hazarding” off on of those darn metal plates.
I swear the darn plate is inch and a half steel with one inch bolt nuts on the drive side of things.
Plate miraculously gone last time I went through.
(Last Thursday heading back from Westchester airport).
And all traffic blissfully unaware (usually) of the good wishes and unreality keeping them from being devoured by the river water hungrily waiting below for the flesh harvest to begin.
Seriously, where else can you drive behind a slow moving truck that is up on the tires on one side?
Only in fever dreams or movies usually.
Regular happening at the “Tap”.
It is condensed nonsense, unreality, “magic” where reality and physics go to feel dirty and cheap for awhile...
/ bad joke.
“I swear the darn plate is inch and a half steel with one inch bolt nuts on the drive side of things.”
With all the potholes everywhere in NY, it would be a flawed study, but someone should anaylze the effect of the TZB on car life expectancy. I cringe. And the worst is when you have to make a sudden move and can’t play the lane the right way to miss the worst spots.
“where reality and physics go to feel dirty and cheap for awhile...”
The Fed is currently doing that with reality and economics. I hope they smoke after.
NY is infested with giant invisible gophers that dig through pavement.
As for the city, they have “pothole relocation teams” the put a hook on the pothole and drag it to a new location.
Sometimes at pedestrian expense.
Going joke in Moscow Russia is that they named streets after pothole collections.
One street there is “barricade street”.
In NYC, they name them after the numbers of kills each pothole in the street is expected to accrue that day.
Lol!
This is true, and they probably use the glass pipes from that certain smoke shop we have in this area.
Ok, what bridge is that? I just looked at the picture. Maybe it’s been rebuilt already.
“pothole relocation teams”
Union of course, with triple time on Sundays. To get one relocated, the waiting list is 65 years.
“that certain smoke shop we have in this area”
That wouldn’t be the one in Nanuet, would it? (lololol)
Unless they can plink a pedestrian with a pothole.
They hook the pothole, floor it, then make a sharp turn while disengaging the hook.
The pothole slides down the street until it hits a curb or a pedestrian.
That’s why the crosswalks are always crappy.
Mmmmaybe.
Lol.
Industrial Shuffleboard! That’s gotta be why they’re so damn good at it when they retire and get down to Florida.
Mr. Tappan Zee, do you like Imus? I love Imus. I know (I KNOW!) he’s hated here, but I have been listening to him every morning since I was five.
That is so.
Note that they usually worked NYC dpw, some of those guys specialize in “bucketloader vehicle remodeling” during winter as well.
The crappan zee bridge decking holes, though, may not be due to giant gophers.
Instead I postulate cthulhu tentacle attacks from below.
Afraid I never catch much of Imus in the morning.
I’m usually home asleep already if not still out and too busy dodging idiots on route 84 on my way home.
There’s this young miss I have seen repeatedly in the area who drives a black Chevy volt on the center line or head on at you in your lane on route 284 or route 6, cellphone in right hand held to left ear, arm crossing her face...
That besides the usual “merge without looking” people on 84.
Kinda keeps my mind off the radio a bit.
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