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Tappan Zee work will take more time, money, Lower Hudson residents say in Newsday poll

Workers continue early construction of pilings, from barges,

Photo credit: Rory Glaeseman | Workers continue early construction of pilings, from barges, just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge crossing from Westchester to Rockland County, in 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)

The vast majority of residents in Rockland and Westchester counties believe the state will spend more time and money building a new Tappan Zee Bridge than politicians would have them believe, according to a new Siena College poll commissioned by Newsday and News12.

"It's going to come in later and cost way more," said Michell Speight, 54, a New Rochelle resident who works for the Dyson Foundation....

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