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TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- The Tappan Zee Bridge visual quality panel has issued its first recommendation based on public input.
The panel has chosen the angled, chamfered main span towers after more than 200 public comments. Officials say the design was preferred by a margin of three to one.
The design option does not change the bridge's structure but could increase the price slightly, officials said. The $3.9 billion bridge is expected to be completed in 2018.
“Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo has made it clear that transparency and public input must play a key role in the construction of the New New York Bridge,” said VQP Chairman Brian Conybeare. “The success of this process has reinforced that the VQP is essential in both achieving this goal and giving Hudson Valley residents a bridge they can be proud of.”
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Once again the writing skills of the author of these articles are called into question. When the design was posed to the public, and votes given, why wasn't the additional cost mentioned then? Had the public been told there would be an additional cost, which makes little sense btw, they may have voted differently. And, is it purely aesthetics or is there a functional preference for one over the other? For instance, would rain, water, snow increase the change of rotting or metal fatigue on the flat top versus the angled one? Is this too basic a question for your stenographer to ask? Frankly, with all the hullabaloo, it's disappointing to be nickeled and dimed over this again. Now they want to add the mass transit option after making a big stink that this project just has to get moving. Typical politicians. Get it started and we can pork on anything they want. POLITICIANS LIE TO GET THEIR AGENDAS THROUGH! Wake up people!