Tappan Zee Bridge to create thousands of jobs
Photo credit: Rory Glaeseman | Workers continue early construction of pilings from barges just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge crossing from Westchester County to Rockland County, in the background. These pilings allowed proposers to conduct demonstrations of boring to ascertain the composition of the riverbed and a pile-driving project that will determine the load capacity of seven locations in the future path of the bridge.The pile-driving demonstration project was the first physical preparatory work for the new Tappan Zee Bridge. (March 13, 2012)
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo predicts that the replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge will generate some 45,000 badly needed jobs for the Hudson Valley during the five years it's under construction.
Transportation experts say such projections are rooted in an inexact science, where the variables are always changing and much hinges on how you define a job.
The experts agree that, no matter how...
