The power lines on the bridge are severed on both ends; if you look at them they are floppin' in the breeze where they clipped 'em. Concrete deck on the bridge?? Wood would be expensive enough....There's not enough $$$$ in the world to make this pipe dream happen. They also want to have an elevator on the Pok side to access. More $$ and a lot of it. Oh, by the way, this will make it really easy for the drug dealers that come up here on metro north to get across the river and ply their wares in Highland. The crime rate on the approach to the bridge is so high that a city cop sits on the ROW almost constantly. Thanks to Cozean, Steinhaus and Lafuente, the tracks were torn up in '05.
Paint the bridge, you say?? It took 68,000 gals of paint to paint it the first time and leadbased paint over a municipal water source?? It will take more that a bunch of homeowners with paint cans and brushes.. And the group said that it had done an inspection of the submerged piers?? I know a pilot who had a commercial navigation license that had done a detailed underwater inspection of the piers with the coast guard years back; said the piers were eroded and scoured. Don't think the $5,000 inspection they did a few years ago would involve divers and underwater cameras. This inspection must be out there for perusal someplace.
Sorry, this ain't gonna happen. And as I drive up the potholed road to my overtaxed home, I really don't want to see my tax dollars squandered on something thats not gonna get finished....good idea though...
I feel better now...
Work safe
derail