New Kosciuszko The Cable-Stayed Bridge in NYC

On behalf of Governor and the State Department of Transportation, Skanska USA and joint-venture partners Kiewit and ECCO III Enterprises have made history by bringing the first cable-stayed bridge to . The 78-year-old Kosciuszko Bridge will ultimately be replaced by two new state-of-the-art . The -bound span (Phase I) opened to traffic on April 27, 2017, and is wide enough to carry traffic in both directions until the original bridge is demolished and the -bound span (Phase II) is constructed.

Queens-bound New Kosciuszko Bridge

2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the The Kosciuszko Bridge was constructed in Queens-bound span required approximately death of Polish military , ally to the 5,700,000 cubic feet of on the project. This Continental Congress during the war for American is enough concrete to cover all independence and one of the founders of the U.S. 1939 Military Academy at West point with two Thaddeus pedestrian 1.3 Kosciuszko square miles walkways of Manhattan’s but they were eliminated in 1966 so the original Central Park roadway could be widened to accommodate additional travel . with about The new Brooklyn-bound (Phase II) bridge The main span pylons (towers) of the new bridge are bikeway/walkway will be two inches of concrete nearly the 20 height of 305’

287’ feet wide the Statue of Liberty 154 concrete girders have been installed for the new approaches connecting to the main span in Brooklyn and Queens at a total weight of Queens-bound span required approximately

The main span’s stay cables are made up of 5,147 19.1 enough steel strands tons of million to circle the pounds or Which weighs as much as perimeter of the borough 686 224 subway of Manhattan elephants cars six times

The New Kosciuszko Bridge

Queens-bound Brooklyn-bound Completed April 2017 Anticipated 2020

Some quick facts about the finished Queens-bound bridge:

1001’ long 5.8 million 284 998,141 pounds of steel precast steel and linear feet of strands 99’ wide concrete panels (roughly 189 miles) in 83’ tall deck stay cables

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