by metrony
Nice seeing the Genesis and its shoreliners cross the bridge too.
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MTA Metro-North Railroad officials expect to award a contract this fall for the replacement of the original cables of the Harlem River Lift Bridge, which provides the only access into Manhattan for all Metro-North trains.
The $30 million project calls for replacing all the original cables that lift the two, 330-foot-long main spans of the bridge, located 4.5 miles north of Grand Central Terminal. The project also includes replacing the electrical control system and most of the wiring, installing a logic control system to computerize control room circuit boards and rehabilitating the elevator from the track level to the operator's room.
"Metro-North must maintain this crucial piece of infrastructure so that it can be used by both train customers and maritime traffic," said President Howard Permut in a prepared statement. "It is vital to the more than 280,000 Metro-North customers and 750 trains that use it each weekday."
Metro-North plans to schedule much of the work during a six-month Coast Guard outage, during which the bridge will not have to be opened on demand.
ExCon90 wrote:Is there any kind of agreement between Metro North and the Coast Guard, as I believe there is for the Portal bridge on Amtrak, providing that it does not have to be opened for river traffic during specified rush-hour periods? Or are the opernings so rare that it hasn't been a problem?It seems they have a better deal than Portal:
ThirdRail7 wrote:I might be wrong, but I think the general legal principal is sort of "first come, first served" when it comes to crossing navigable water. In most cases, the waterway was there long, long before the railroad-- so the boats have priority. However, the Harlem River was not actually navigable until it was dredged out for the Harlem River Ship Canal in the mid-1890's: so the railroad was there first.ExCon90 wrote:Is there any kind of agreement between Metro North and the Coast Guard, as I believe there is for the Portal bridge on Amtrak, providing that it does not have to be opened for river traffic during specified rush-hour periods? Or are the opernings so rare that it hasn't been a problem?It seems they have a better deal than Portal...
DutchRailnut wrote:The Harlem river has very little or no commercial traffic that will require bridge to be opened.
But for maintenance sake the City of new york requires the acces of crane barges for other bridge maintenance, so draw bridge needs to be maintained. only reasonable large commercial; traffic is Circle line. and all their boats do clear bridge in down position except for Spuyten Duyvil one.
Clean Cab wrote:The US Coast Guard requires the bridge to be tested monthly.We coverd that, infact MNCR opens the bridge once a week, I believe.