Big Delays Expected As Major Repairs Start On GWB
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey workers will replace sections of the steel beams that support the roadway. The cranes needed for the project require three of the four lanes to be closed.
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey workers will replace sections of the steel beams that support the roadway. The cranes needed for the project require three of the four lanes to be closed.
Construction will go on from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., Monday through Friday on the upper level. On Saturdays, the span won't re-open until 10 a.m., officials said.
On Friday night road crews shut down Rt. 4 East, it will remain closed on Saturday, that closure will be followed by a major shut down on the George Washington Bridge.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials are preparing for roadwork scheduled to begin Monday night on the George Washington Bridge.
Port Authority police have arrested a truck driver, who they say has cheated the agency of $28,000 in tolls. Marcus Tifa is charged with theft of services and tampering with public records.
The Port Authority said the traffic nightmare all started when an RV caught fire on lower level of the bridge.
The agency says the decrease reflects a program that was established in 1998 to reduce motor vehicle accidents.
The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge's lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City.
A truck slammed into a toll booth on the inbound upper level of the George Washington Bridge early Monday, closing several lanes.
Paige Aiello was last seen at her family's home in Hillsborough on April 9.
New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Division has joined the effort to find Paige Aiello. Her father said the emphasis shifted just in the past day or two from possible suicide.
Paige Aiello, the captain of the College of New Jersey's women's tennis team, was reported missing by her parents on Wednesday.
Guard Sami Omar, of North Bergen, N.J., denied smoking the drug, but police said a search of his post uncovered marijuana in a bag and cigarette.
The non-specific threat was made by phone Thursday morning.
One of the approaches to the world's busiest bridge is going to be replaced.
If the weather is brutal, and New Jersey gets hit by a blizzard and the game is impacted or postponed, then what? It's a multi-billion dollar gamble. The NFL is betting that there won't be a blizzard and there won't be a worst-case scenario.
Rutgers University is announcing a new center named after the student who killed himself after his roommate used a webcam to see him kissing another man.
A race against time may describe efforts to replace the decrepit Tappan Zee Bridge with a brand new one.
We've been hearing from listeners that police are cracking down at the George Washington Bridge, where drivers and riders have been teaming up to take advantage of E-ZPass carpool discounts.
Commuters heading to into New York City from New Jersey are now paying more after the next phase of Port Authority toll hikes kicked in over the weekend.
The AAA has gone to federal court, trying to roll back the Port Authority hikes that will make the toll $15 cash by 2015.
The cash toll the George Washington Bridge, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Goethals Bridge, Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing will increase $1 to $13.
A teen who was about to jump off the George Washington Bridge was rescued Monday by four officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Thursday marked yet another call for the shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear power facility in Westchester County, citing possible danger to the area.
Earlier, both the express and local lanes of the turnpike were shut down in both directions around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, just west of the George Washington Bridge.
