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Old Pittsburgh Bridge Lives on in New Design By Brenda Ruggiero ceG corresPoNdeNt
All Island Equipment Customizes to Need...14
IronPlanet Hosts Cat Auction Services Florida Sale...112
A tired bridge that stood for nearly a century in Pittsburgh, Pa., was recently put to rest in preparation for a new one. the bridge is located in the squirrel Hill area of the city spanning i376 (Parkway east) near squirrel Hill tunnels. commonly known as the Greenfield Bridge, the formal name is actually the Beechwood Boulevard Bridge, since it serves as the terminus to Beechwood Boulevard, a recreational boulevard designed to connect the city’s three major parks: Highland Park, Frick Park, and schenley Park. the new bridge will be a steel open spandrel arch that incorporates the decorative urns and pillars of the original bridge built in the early 1900s. the contract, worth $17.4 million, is federally, state and city funded. it was awarded to
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According to reports, 224 holes were drilled in the arches of the bridge to accommodate 1,400 lbs. (635 kg) of explosives, and the bridge came down in about nine seconds.
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A tired bridge that stood for nearly a century in Pittsburgh, Pa., was recently put to rest in preparation for a new one.
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with piers built on micropiles. the steel arch bridge will have steel columns, floor beams and stringers, with an eight-inch concrete bridge deck with a sidewalk and barrier on one side and a bike lane and barrier on the other side. the barrier will have a mounted protective fence. the project also includes approach roadway work, which consists of drainage replacement, subbase and new asphalt. Historic monuments on the existing bridge will be incorporated into see GREENFIELD page 98
WTC Transit Hub Opens Under Cloud of $4B Cost
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Mosites construction company, with derrick Jeannerette and John Gyure as project managers and John dove as superintendent. Notice to proceed was issued on sept. 1, 2015, and the completion date is set for sept. 4, 2017. the project scope includes the complete removal of the existing concrete bridge and replacement with a new steel arch bridge. the new bridge will consist of two abutments and two thrust blocks
the World trade center was designed to evoke a bird in flight, but it is hatching under a cloud.
there will be no ribbon-cutting celebration when the train station’s grand hall, called the oculus, opens because the head of the bistate agency that controls the hub has blasted it as a “symbol of excess,” with runaway costs approaching $4 billion.
that’s roughly the same price as the nation’s tallest skyscraper, next door — the 104-story one World trade center. “the cost of projects, big and small, matters — a lot,” Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, said in a statement through a spokesman. “Whether due to unforeseen conditions, errors or misconduct, cost overruns consume precious resources and undermine public confidence.” After first indicating that there see TRANSIT page 46