Bayonne Bridge Construction Update

River View Observer: "On the new roadway from 6th Street o the bridge’s main span, workers are continuing to install lighting, drainage systems, electrical systems, the barrier wall, and other roadway-related structures."

Editorial: PATH, bus terminal essential to PA

NorthJersey.com: "The replacement of the Goethals Bridge is underway. Elevation of the Bayonne Bridge will allow new, larger container ships to access our ports. And even Port Authority critics, state Sens. Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck, and Bob Gordon, D-Fair Lawn, told The Record’s editorial board recently that the remodeled GWB Bus Station, nearing completion despite delays, will be impressive once it is opened."

NY-NJ terminal blames harsh weather for truck delays

JOC.com: "The congestion reflects the difficulties at the heavily used port, where turn times can easily rise above two hours, as it works to ensure the swift and smooth arrival of trucks and containers in and out of the port in preparation for the arrival of increasingly larger ships. That is expected to happen once a project to elevate the Bayonne Bridge is completed at the end of 2017. At present, the low elevation of the bridge prevents big ships passing below and reaching three out of the four terminals — among them PNCT."

Port Authority of NY & NJ - Alerts & Advisories - Bayonne Bridge

Port Authority of NY & NJ: The Bayonne Bridge will be closed from Friday, January 27, 9 p.m. around-the-clock until 10 p.m. Saturday, January 28.

The Port Authority's top money makers (and losers)...

NJ.com: Bayonne Bridge in the red.

Traffic Continues During 'Raise the Roadway' Project

Construction Equipment Guide: “The project marks the first time engineers are building a bridge roadway above the original span, even as the lower road continues to carry traffic,” said Neal Buccino, senior public information officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. “It will maintain the steel arch that makes the Bayonne Bridge a civil engineering landmark, while giving drivers a safer, wider and more modern roadway with 12-foot lanes, new shoulders, a median divider, and a 12-foot bike and pedestrian walkway.”

Big ship ready – Video Case Histories

DC Velocity: "That Bayonne Bridge project she mentions is a massive engineering marvel and one of the largest ever undertaken in the region. The $1.3 billion project involves building a new roadway 65 feet above the original road surface. The tricky part is that the construction is taking place while commuters, trucks, and others are using the bridge on a daily basis. Once completed, the original roadway will be removed so that taller ships as large as 18,000 TEUs can easily pass below."

Congestion 3

tugster: a waterblog: "It also gives a sense of the random traffic patterns, here about to pass the impatient Peking are (l to r) Michael Miller, Charles Burton, and way in the distance Robert E. McAllister."

Bayonne Bridge Weekend Schedule

Port Authority of NY & NJ: The bridge will be closed from "Friday, January 20, 9 p.m. until 10 p.m. Saturday, January 21"

Bayonne Bridge deck elevation progress January 20, 2016

Flickr: Recent photos of bridge elevation progress.

Bayonne bridge construction update

Hudson TV: "On the new roadway from 6th Street o the bridge’s main span, workers are continuing to install lighting, drainage systems, electrical systems, the barrier wall, and other roadway-related structures."

Bayonne Bridge; 1/16/2017. 8x10 Wet Plate Collodion Tintype. Taken with a pinhole camera @f/293. Exposure time 12 minutes.

Imgur: Tintype photo.

NY-NJ appointment system cuts truck turns without major hitch

JOC: "The system, at just one of out of six terminals at the largest port on the East Coast, is designed to improve drayage efficiency. Such efficiency at the port is critical as it prepares to meet the increased workload and additional systemic stress expected after the completion of a project at the end of this year to raise the Bayonne Bridge. The project will enable ships that can carry more than 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units to stop at all four of the port’s main terminals. Only one — Global Container Terminal — is at present accessible to big ships because they can’t get under the bridge."

Is 2017 the Year of the Anticipated Coastal Import Shift?

Colliers International: "ALL EYES ON THE BAYONNE BRIDGE: New York-New Jersey, the largest port on the East Coast, is still expected to be the main beneficiary of any increase in inbound container volume from the Panama Canal expansion. This is because of its proximity to the largest population concentration on the East Coast and the recent dredging project that deepened its harbor to 50 feet."

Where the Second Avenue Subway Went Wrong

The New Yorker: "When New Jersey wanted to raise the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge, it took five years, and twenty thousand pages of paperwork, for the project to get under way. Obviously, environmental and workplace standards are important, but a recent paper by Philip Howard, the chairman of Common Good, suggests that a more streamlined regulatory process, like those found in many developed countries, could save hundreds of billions of dollars."

Bayonne Bridge Schedule: January 20 - 21, 2017 : City of Bayonne, NJ - Official Website

City of Bayonne, NJ - Official Website: "Next weekend, the Bayonne Bridge will perform an Extended Friday Closure (EFC). The bridge will close at 9pm Friday, January 20, and reopen by 10pm Saturday, January 21."

Erin McAllister and More

tugster: a waterblog: " I was interested in the ship because a friend had assisted docking when she arrived ."

Port Authority wants to go after your license, registration if you cheat tolls

NJ.com: "Port Authority officials will ask New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission to suspend the registration privilege of chronic toll violators, similar to what is now done in New York State, as the agency moves to cashless toll collection."

Port Authority of NY & NJ posts for public comment proposed $32.2 billion draft 10-year capital plan

AJOT.COM: "These investments include $578 million for the Bayonne Bridge Navigational Clearance Project, which will allow larger more efficient ships to access the Port of New York and New Jersey; $364 million for the Port Wharf and Berth Replacement Program; $164 million for the port and rail cargo facility at Greenville Yard; and $162 million for the Goethals Bridge Replacement Project."

As MTA expects new head, Staten Island waits with bated breath

SILive.com: "It also got a promise from Prendergast of $5 million to study the proposed West Shore light rail, which would run about 13 miles from Richmond Valley to Elm Park, carrying commuters over the Bayonne Bridge to connect with New Jersey Transit's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Line."

Bayonne Bridge, Holland Tunnel lane closures scheduled

NJ.com: "The Bayonne Bridge will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday through 10 p.m. Saturday, to accommodate construction on the "Raise the Roadway" project, which will elevate the bridge's roadway to provide navigational clearance for neo-Panamax container vessels."

Bayonne Bridge to Remain Open on Thursday Night, January 12

City of Bayonne, NJ - Official Website: "Due to the closure of the Goethals Bridge on Thursday night, January 12, 2017 the Bayonne Bridge WILL CANCEL its planned overnight closure that night.  Once the Bayonne reopens at 3:00 pm on Thursday, January 12, it will remain open to accommodate traffic from the Goethals and will not close again until the daytime closure on Friday, January 13."

Goethals Bridge N.J.-bound lanes to be closed Thursday night

SILive.com: "The Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing will remain open Thursday as alternate routes. Thursday night's scheduled closure of the Bayonne Bridge has been canceled."

Weekend Schedule

Port Authority of NY & NJ: "The Bayonne Bridge will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday, January 6 through 10 p.m. Saturday, January 7 to accommodate construction on the “Raise the Roadway” project."

12 people jumped to deaths from George Washington Bridge in 2016

NY Daily News: "So many people have leapt from the span, the Port Authority took steps to post more police officers to the walkway and set up surveillance cameras. The authority’s other bridges include the Bayonne Bridge, the Goethals Bridge and the Outerbridge Crossing."

NY/NJ Port Authority Drafts $32B Capital Plan

AviationPros.com: "The plan also includes $7.6 billion to finish projects currently in construction, such as the Bayonne Bridge, Goethals Bridge, PATH’s signal replacement program, upgrades to the Harrison and Grove Street PATH stations and the port and rail cargo facility at Greenville Yard.  Of that $7.6 billion, a total of $2.5 billion will support LaGuardia Airport’s ongoing Terminal B redevelopment project."

Port Authority 2016: It’s a Wrap

PANYNJ: "Steady progress was made on two signature bridge projects: raising the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge and the complete replacement of the Goethals Bridge."

New alliances, bigger ships put US ports on high alert

JOC.com: "At New York-New Jersey, the largest port on the East Coast and the third-largest in the US, 2017 is likely to be dominated by the port’s preparation for the year-end opening of the elevated Bayonne Bridge. The bridge, which will be 215 feet high instead of 151 feet currently, will enable ships of up to 18,000-TEU capacity to call at all four of the port’s main terminals. Only ships of less than 10,000 TEUs are currently able to call because the existing bridge is too low to allow large ships to berth at three of the port’s main terminals; only Global Container Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey, located on the channel before the bridge, is currently able to service larger ships."