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Bayonne Bridge to be closed overnight from Monday to Thursday

SILive.com: "From Friday, June 15, the bridge will be open all day and night. The bridge will stay open all weekend. From Monday, June 18, to Thursday, June 21, the bridge will be open during the day and closed at night from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m."

How Port Authority is helping keep endangered falcons thriving

NJ.com: "A nesting tower adjacent to the Bayonne Bridge, where the Port Authority tagged three baby peregrine falcons. The falcons have been on the endangered species list since the 1970's."

Bayonne Bridge to remain open this weekend

SILive.com: "Beginning next week, the Port Authority will close the bridge from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday through Thursday to accommodate the ongoing construction work."

Bayonne Bridge to be closed overnight through summer

SILive.com: "Beginning next week on June 11, the Port Authority will close the bridge from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday through Thursday to accommodate the ongoing construction work as part of the "Raise the Roadway" project. "

Bayonne Bridge to remain open Memorial Day weekend

SILive.com: "The Bayonne Bridge will remain open Memorial Day weekend to help accommodate the increased number of motorists expected on the roads for the holiday weekend."

Bayonne Bridge will remain open all weekend | SILive.com

SILive.com: "The Bayonne Bridge will be open all day Friday and will remain open all weekend.

However, the New Jersey-bound lanes of the Goethals Bridge will be closed beginning at 9 p.m. Friday. The new New Jersey-bound span will open no later than 4 a.m. Monday."

Will They Make It? 4 Enormous Cranes Sail Carefully Beneath Two Bridges

Construction Equipment Guide: "
The equipment holds the title for the largest pre-assembled cranes to ever pass beneath the Bayonne Bridge since its 2017 elevation to 215 ft. above the Kill Van Kull."

Bayonne Bridge to remain open this weekend

SILive.com: "The span had originally been scheduled to close overnight Friday, but that closure has been cancelled due to the weather, according to the Port Authority."

Bayonne Bridge to remain open this weekend

SILive.com: "According to the Port Authority, there are no plans to close the span, which will be open to traffic through the weekend."

6 ways the Bayonne Bridge project has fueled business at Port of NY/NJ

NJ.com: "Port Authority officials say the completion of the Bayonne Bridge Navigational Clearance Project is helping the Port of New York and New Jersey set new records for volume records, "shattering" the existing highs established two years ago. 
 
As a result of the project, which saw the Bayonne Bridge raised from 151 feet to 215 feet to allow larger ships access to the port's marine facilities in Newark, Elizabeth and Staten Island, cargo volume was up 5.3 percent from 2015, when the previous record as set."

Bayonne Bridge will close for 'emergency repairs' today, Port Authority says

NJ.com: "The Port Authority announced that the Bayonne Bridge's southbound lanes to New York will close at 2 p.m. today for emergency construction.

The closing will last for approximately two hours while crews can work on the bridge, the Port Authority said. It is unclear what the construction work entails."

Port of NY/NJ reaches new heights in 2017

American Shipper: "During the year, 2,011 containerships called the port, down from 2,184 calls in 2016 and 2,251 in 2015. “The fewer vessel calls illustrate that much of the containerized cargo coming into the port is arriving in larger more environmentally friendly ships, a trend the port expects will continue now that the Bayonne Bridge has been raised,” the port explained in a statement.
   The Bayonne Bridge Navigational Clearance Project, which was completed in June 2017, raised the clearance under the crossing from 151 feet to 215 feet, allowing ships as large as 18,000 TEUs to sail beneath the bridge to port facilities in Newark, Elizabeth and Staten Island.
   In the wake of the bridge raising, one of the port’s major shipping lines, CMA CGM, began a new service to the port using primarily 14,000-TEU ships.
   “The investment we made to raise the Bayonne Bridge is clearly paying dividends by driving up cargo volumes and significantly boosting the jobs and economic activity the port generates for the region,” Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton said."

Trump's infrastructure push aims to shrink already condensed environmental process

USA Today: "Many of the principles the Trump administration is embracing were articulated in a report titled Two Years not Ten Years issued in 2015 by a non-partisan group called the Common Good.

Its chairman, Philip K. Howard, used the raising of the Bayonne Bridge that connects Staten Island with New Jersey as a classic example of government bureaucracy run amok.

The project required 47 permits from 19 different federal, state, and local agencies, he told lawmakers. It took six months to pick the lead agency for environmental review and another year to agree on the scope of review even though the construction "had virtually no environmental impact" because it used the same right of way and foundations as the old bridge, he said. The final environmental assessment ran 10,000 pages, with another 10,000 pages of appendices."

Bergen Point Ferry

tugster: a waterblog: "Here’s another photo shared by Ingrid Staats.  If you’ve been to this blog before, you recognize the bridge, but what are Vega and Altair you might wonder.  The ferries are aptly named, since they are two characters in a Chinese love story, Vega the weaver girl and Altair the cowherd."

Construction to Begin Soon on Bayonne’s Tallest Buildings

Jersey Digs: "Greenman said that this development is a “well-situated project” because of the site’s close proximity to the light rail, Route 440, the Bayonne Bridge, and the Broadway business district."

West 1st Street Closing Notice

City of Bayonne, NJ - Official Website: "In a letter to residents of the 1st Street area in Bayonne, the Port Authority has advised them that it will be closing West 1st Street as early as Friday, January 26, 2018 to erect the new support structure for the Bayonne Bridge. This closure will last until approximately fall 2018. While West 1st Street is closed, vehicles can continue to enter from Avenue A for local access only – no through traffic can travel under the bridge. Also during the closure, vehicles cannot park under the Bayonne Bridge."

Bayonne Bridge to be closed this weekend

SILive.com: "The Port Authority will close the bridge Friday, Jan. 26, at 9 p.m., and it will remain closed most of the day Sunday, Jan. 28, to accommodate ongoing construction work."

Red Hook, Brooklyn's last port, is clinging to a site coveted by developers

Crain's New York Business: "The industry has shifted to large-volume facilities, a trend likely to accelerate in the coming years with the introduction of some of the largest vessels ever built. They can carry 14,000 or more containers and are so massive that the Panama Canal was widened at a cost of more than $5 billion to accommodate them. To make its Port Elizabeth and Port Newark facilities accessible to these ships, which can be 1,200 feet long and 200 feet tall, the Port Authority just spent $1.7 billion to lift the Bayonne Bridge’s roadway 64 feet."

Lane Closings, Repairs At GWB, Holland Tunnel, Bayonne Bridge

Hoboken, NJ Patch: "According to the Port Authority of NY/NJ, the Bayonne Bridge will be closed during the overnight hours on Friday, Jan. 19, for ongoing construction work."