Bayonne Bridge one of the subjects of Men's Forum

NJ.com: "Mike Valletta, an engineer with the New York/New Jersey Port Authority, will speak to the Men's Forum on Tuesday, Jan. 19, and tell his audience the engineering challenges faced with "the Bayonne Bridge and Other PANYNJ Projects."

Bayonne Bridge closing Friday night through Sunday morning

Hudson Reporter: "The bridge will be closed beginning 11:59 p.m. Friday and will reopen at 8 a.m. Sunday."

Toll hikes rile motorists Bayonne Bridge can be costly

Hudson Reporter: "The increase in the Bayonne Bridge toll from $14 to $15 on Dec. 6 for cash-paying customers in regular passenger vehicles does not sit well with many motorists."

Panama President Says Canal Expansion To Be Complete by May

Working Harbor Committee: "After several delays resulting from worker disputes to a dire-looking leak in the new locks, the Panamanian President has said the Panama Canal Expansion Project will be completed in May of this year."

Explainer: Port Authority Oversees Region’s Trade and Key Transportation Links

NJ Spotlight: "The agency is roughly halfway through a massive $1.3 billion capital project to raise the Bayonne Bridge enough to enable the newest, largest class of “Panamax” ships to pass underneath."

Giant Container Ships Arrive On US Shores, But Many Ports Not Prepared For Era Of Megaships

International Business Times: "In New York and New Jersey, the joint port authority is carrying out a more than $1 billion plan to raise the Bayonne Bridge connecting Staten Island and New Jersey to allow for taller vessels."

Bayonne Bridge to stay open through New Year's holiday weekend

NJ.com: "The Bayonne Bridge will stay open through the New Year's holiday weekend and resume its regular weekday closures on Monday, the Port Authority announced.

Beginning Monday, the bridge will follow its regular schedule of daily closures from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and overnight closures from 8:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. as construction continues on the "Raise the Roadway" project, the bi-state agency said."

The Panama Connection

HOIST Magazine: "One of the most significant is a major reconfiguration of the Bayonne port Global terminal, one of five terminals in the New Jersey/New York port complex which services one of the largest markets in the US with a catchment of around 30M.
The terminal, appropriately operated by Global Container Terminals, is the only one on the outside of the Kill Van Kull, the main channel passing into the large Newark and Port Elizabeth area. Sitting on the end of the Bayonne peninsula it is the only terminal unaffected by a headroom restriction for ships passing under the famous Bayonne bridge which connects New Jersey to Staten Island.
A $1.2bn project is underway to reconfigure the bridge which will lift its road deck 20m to give a navigational clearance of 66.1m by late 2017, but until than GCT has a significant competitive edge says the GCT project manager for new terminal Rich Ceci. "We are the only terminal that will take the big Suez and new Panama ships" he says. Water draft is being increased to 15.2m and a new marine to rail transshipment zone is part of the works."

Top Bayonne news stories of 2015 | NJ.com

NJ.com: "Bayonne Bridge construction delayed by two years

Five months after city residents living near the Bayonne Bridge and its ongoing construction expressed outrage at their reduced quality of life at a public meeting, the Port Authority announced on Oct. 1 that the project had been set back by two years and would not be completed until mid-2019."

Harbor Pilots Called to Steer Larger Ships

WSJ: "The largest vessels have only a few feet to maneuver in some port channels; stacked-up megaships come within inches of scraping the bottom of the Bayonne Bridge on their way into Newark’s terminals"

With mass transit, talk is cheap: Riders need results (editorial)

SILive.com: "South Shore residents have the Staten Island Railway. Many North Shore residents, marooned as they are in a forgotten "transit desert," have zero alternatives, short of driving to the ferry. Of course, they would have options if the MTA would consider running light rail line across the Bayonne Bridge to connect with NJ Transit, but the powers that be have ruled that out."

Bayonne Bridge to stay open from Dec. 23 to Jan. 4

NJ.com: "The Bayonne Bridge will stay open from 5 a.m. on Dec. 23 until 9 a.m. on Jan. 4, city officials announced today."

Bayonne Bridge to close this weekend stay open for holidays

Hudson Reporter: "The Bayonne Bridge will close overnight Friday into Saturday morning, and then overnight Saturday into Sunday morning, to accommodate ongoing construction work on the bridge project, according to the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.

But the bridge will be open for the holidays, from 5 a.m. Dec. 23 until 9 a.m. Jan. 4."

Bayonne Bridge "Raise the Roadway" Year End Newsletter

Bayonne Bridge "Raise the Roadway" Newsletter

White-Skanska-Kiewit ousted from over-budget Boston Green Line extension

Construction Dive: "Sweden-based Skanska, one of the largest construction companies in the world, has seen a run of bad luck on some high-profile projects in the U.S. recently. Those include the Apple "spaceship" campus, where the contractor was also removed from the job, and the delayed Bayonne Bridge rehab."

A tale of two boroughs, toll-wise (editorial)

SILive.com: "That battle was fought and lost four years ago when Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie signed off on the Port Authority's plan for incremental toll hikes on the grounds that the authority has had to pay enormous sums for such important projects as the World Trade Center reconstruction, the ongoing Bayonne Bridge's "Raise the Roadway" project and replacing the Goethals Bridge."

Bayonne Bridge to close for whole weekend

Hudson Reporter: "The bridge will close at 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11, and will reopen at 5 a.m. Monday, Dec. 14."

NY-NJ terminal to start truck appointments in January

JOC.com: "Truckers have complained about long turn times at GCT Bayonne, the only New York-New Jersey terminal able to handle ships too large to pass under the Bayonne Bridge until the raising of the bridge’s roadway is completed in late 2017."

Truck congestion at PANYNJ

Port Strategy "GCT Bayonne is the only option for the largest ships arriving at the US east coast’s busiest port. The Bayonne Bridge’s 151ft height limits clearance for all other ships than can access terminals in New Jersey or on Staten Island, New York."

New Jersey: Garden of Opportunity

New Jersey: Garden of Opportunity: "The third largest seaport in North America and the largest maritime cargo center on the East Coast, the Port of New York and New Jersey serves as a North American gateway for international freight and a leading hub for domestic cargo. To accommodate post-Panamax activity at Port Newark/Elizabeth, a $743.3 million rebuilding project to raise the clearance of the Bayonne Bridge is currently underway to accommodate larger ships coming from Asia to the East Coast after the expansion of the Panama Canal."

Bayonne Bridge to close Friday and Saturday nights

NJ.com: "The bridge will be closed from 11:59 p.m. on Friday until 8 a.m. Saturday, and will also be closed from 9 p.m. on Saturday until 5 a.m. on Sunday, the Port Authority said. From 5 a.m. on Sunday onward, the bridge will remain open."

Court Upholds Environmental Review and Dismisses Challenge to Bayonne Bridge Project

Sive, Paget & Riesel: "After examining the EA and the extensive record, Judge Ronnie Abrams rejected all of the plaintiffs’ arguments, holding that the Coast Guard satisfied its obligations under NEPA. The Court found that the Coast Guard “adequately considered and disclosed” the Project’s induced growth impacts, even though the agency relied on the results of an expert’s proprietary model and data. Regarding construction, the Court found that the protective measures built into the Project rendered insignificant any potential temporary construction impacts. In addition, the Court found that the Coast Guard sufficiently analyzed the cumulative impacts of the Project and rationally concluded that the Project would not disproportionately burden minority or low income communities. The Court also ruled that the Coast Guard complied with NEPA’s public participation requirements and correctly determined that an EIS was unnecessary."

Hudson River tolls set to go up again on Sunday

NJ.com: "The final bite of the Port Authority's toll increase will come early Sunday morning, when the cash toll increases to $15 for passenger vehicles at the Hudson River and Staten Island crossings."

Skanska committed to US strategy despite recent 'turbulence'

Construction Dive: "Skanska’s U.S. construction operations has "hit turbulence," Bloomberg said, as the company posted a $74 million write-down in the third quarter of 2015 due to productivity issues and client design changes to large projects. Problem projects included the Apple "spaceship" campus in Cupertino CA, the Boston Green Line rail extension and the Bayonne Bridge renovation."

Port Authority Releases Proposed 2016 Budgets For Public Review

Bergen Dispatch: "Major investments include the upgrade and modernization of our airports, tunnels, bridges and terminals, including: the redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B; continued planning and design of a replacement of Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal A; the Goethals and Bayonne Bridge projects; access improvements to the Lincoln Tunnel; rehabilitation of the George Washington Bridge; and continued improvements in the Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) as well as planning for its long term replacement. Funds also are included for redevelopment of Greenville Yard to support a new ship-to-rail facility.  Improvements to PATH include implementation of positive train controls, modernization of the Harrison Station and completion of the World Trade Center PATH Station and the transportation hub."

Why is truck traffic up? Port handled record number of containers

NJ.com: "If drivers have noticed more container trucks on the road lately, it may be because 2015 is on pace to break record for the number of containers shipped into and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey."

N.J. ports juggle rising workload with logistical problems

NorthJersey.com: "The pressure could increase next year with the expansion of the Panama Canal to allow larger ships to pass through it, which is set to be completed in April. That is expected to bring more business to the New Jersey ports. But port users expect the impact to be muted at first because only one of New Jersey’s four terminals — Global Container Terminal in Bayonne — is accessible to large ships, until the Bayonne Bridge is raised, at present expected in late 2017."

NYC-area ports stare down sizeable challenge of modernizing

Washington Times: "It’s a supply chain fraught with the potential for disruption, particularly in the sprawling ports that hug Newark Bay just east of the New Jersey Turnpike - an aging complex where weather, labor issues and even computer problems have caused significant delays in recent years. But other factors embedded in the process itself are a concern as the ports prepare to begin accepting larger ships when work to raise New Jersey’s Bayonne Bridge is finished in two years."

Staten Island artist to document the New York Wheel's rise in drawings

SILive.com: "I go to the Staten Island Museum and see this wonderful piece that he's done," Marin said. The piece, "Along the Arthur Kill," provides a panoramic view from the Bayonne Bridge."

'Seen' it to believe it: Staten Island's beauty inspires fine art

SILive.com: "Among ambitious 21st-century Island vistas, few embrace as big as Morgan Taylor's "Staten Island, the Bayonne Bridge and New Jersey from Red Hook. For all its reach, 85 percent of the canvas is sky.

The North and East Shore sections of the Island tend to hog all the attention. Bill Murphy, who has enjoyed a four-decade career on the Island, headed west towards the Bayonne Bridge for "Along the Arthur Kill," a large detailed, watercolor."

New bridge, toll plaza, and rail facility to launch Bayonne into new era

Hudson Reporter: "What do the $1.3 billion reconstruction of a bridge, a $310 million renovation of a highway toll plaza, and the $56 million building of a major ship-to-rail facility next to a container port mean for the city of Bayonne?

Short-term pain and long-term gain, according to city officials and the agencies involved with the three projects."

Container shipping lines seek solace in greater scale

FT.com: "The need to raise the Bayonne Bridge highlights how container shipping lines are betting on scale to solve their deep-rooted problems — partly by investing in bigger vessels and, in some cases, by embarking on mergers."

Bayonne bridge construction: Port Authority, city officials issue Nov. 24 updates

NJ.com: "The Bayonne Bridge will be open from Wednesday, November 25, through Sunday, November 29. There will be no closures during any of those days."

Rest In Peace John Skelson

Working Harbor Committee

Bayonne Bridge to close for weekend

Hudson Reporter: "The Bayonne Bridge will close at 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20, and reopen at 5 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 23, to accommodate ongoing construction work on the “Raise the Roadway” project, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey announced."

Raising The Bayonne Bridge

SDC Photography: "The Bayonne Bridge Navigational Clearance Project which is currently undergoing in order to raise the bridge to attract larger container ships, has been delayed for another year. The delays put the completion date now for 2017."

Bayonne Bridge to close for most of weekend

Hudson Reporter: "The bridge will close at 9 p.m. Friday and reopen at 5 a.m. Monday."

Bayonne officials say motorists can now access Avenue A from Route 440

NJ.com: "Previously, drivers were forced to do a U-turn at Fifth Street due to the ongoing construction on the Bayonne Bridge, city spokesman Joe Ryan said. Since the new traffic pattern was implemented on Monday, motorists driving southbound on Route 440 have been able to proceed directly to the Avenue A exit ramp, he said."

Bayonne Bridge will be closed during overnight hours this weekend

NJ.com: "The Bayonne Bridge will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday to 9 a.m. Saturday, and 9 p.m. Saturday to 9 a.m. Sunday due to ongoing construction work, the Port Authority announced."

Bridge closing Friday into Saturday but open for marathon Sunday

Hudson Reporter: "The bridge will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, through 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. The bridge will remain open from that point until 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 2."

Bridge, turnpike construction cause Bayonne traffic woes | Letter

NJ.com: "I am writing about the construction going on for the raising of the Bayonne Bridge.  I live close to the bridge and haven't been bothered by the noise, thank goodness, but I have had rusty paint chips and dirt in my swimming pool.  I have been inconvenienced by the schedule of closings.  I understand that I just have to grin and bear that until 2019. "

Long Beach port exec: ILWU doesn’t want labor strife repeat for 2019 contract talks

JOC.com: "The focus next year will turn to the East and Gulf Coast ports, which are spending billions of dollars to deepen their harbors, increase the height of the Bayonne Bridge in New York and New Jersey and build larger, in some cases automated terminals — to get to the point where Los Angeles-Long Beach already is. "

Drunk driver enters closed construction area on Bayonne Bridge

NJ.com: "Port Authority Police Officer Ed Benenati blocked the Honda's path with his marked Port Authority police vehicle to prevent access to the bridge toll plaza construction zone, police said."

Making your nightmare commute worse (commentary)

SILive.com: "It's just not a good time for drivers and commuters. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is going to be undergoing various rehab projects that will last for the next 20 years. The Bayonne Bridge is being closed more and more often for a road-raising project that is going to last two years longer than we were initially told."

NY-NJ port authority signs off on GCT Bayonne ship-to-rail facility

JOC.com: "GCT Bayonne is the only major terminal in the port that can handle ships too large for the Bayonne Bridge’s 151-foot vertical clearance. The port authority is spending $1.3 billion to raise the bridge, but the schedule for increasing the span’s clearance to 215 feet has been delayed till the end of 2017.

Cargo coming on and off ships at GCT Bayonne today is transported to or from its destination by truck, or is trucked to another ExpressRail facility in the port. The new Greenville Yards facility will allow containers to be transloaded from ship to rail. The facility will have an initial capacity of at least 125,000 container lifts a year."

Bayonne Bridge to close twice this weekend

Hudson Reporter:"The bridge will close at 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 and reopen at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. The bridge will close again at 9 p.m. on Saturday and reopen at 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. "

What’s In A Name: Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge |

What’s In A Name: Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge: In truth, the bridge is named after the same thing almost every bridge is named after: a famous person. It’s just that in this instance the famous person has a weirdly appropriate surname—Outerbridge, as in American businessman Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge.

Bayonne, NJ

MapQuest: "Bayonne (pronounced bay-OWN) is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is a peninsula that is situated between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 63,024.
Bayonne was originally formed as a township on April 1, 1861, from portions of Bergen Township. Bayonne was reincorporated as a city by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1869, replacing Bayonne Township, subject to the results of a referendum held nine days later.
The city lies at the heart of the Port of New York and New Jersey, east of Newark, the state's largest city, and west of Brooklyn. It shares a land border with Jersey City to the north and is connected to Staten Island by the Bayonne Bridge. While somewhat diminished, traditional manufacturing, distribution, and maritime activities remain important to the economy of the city."

Bloomberg Politics

Bloomberg Politics: "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is still recovering from the 2013 traffic-jam scandal that led to top-level resignations and investigations. It’s two years behind on raising the Bayonne Bridge, has no plans to replace its obsolete Manhattan bus terminal, and bills to overhaul its management structure have stalled."

Keeping their cool

NJBIZ: "So despite any fears about delays in the $1.3 billion raising of the Bayonne Bridge — a project that will allow larger ships to call on the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal — von Dohlen doesn't necessarily feel his business will be impacted."

Update: Turning 84

tugster: a waterblog: "So let’s have a look at the construction project, one of two major infrastructure upgrades in greater NYC.  The photo below shows the New Jersey side of the project,  mirror image mostly for what’s happening on the New York side.  For scale, consider that the yellow horizontal structure–a gantry–is 500′ long."

Delayed bridge project in New Jersey could hamper shipments to other ports

Bunker Ports News Worldwide,: In response to questions about the bridge delay, the Port Authority said in an emailed statement to The Associated Press that it has discussed the issue with carriers and terminal operators and that “other East Coast ports will receive larger ships only after the Bayonne Bridge Roadway is raised.”

Bayonne Bridge to close this weekend for construction

SILive.com: "According to the Port Authority, closures will take place from 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, through 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19."

Twenty YEARS of Verrazano rehab? (commentary)

SILive.com: "We will also continue to endure closures of the Bayonne Bridge as the roadway is raised in order to accommodate ever-larger container ships. The Port Authority recently announced that that project would drag on for two years longer than originally planned."

PortSide: 'Insect class' gunboat creates buzz

Business in Savannah News: "Currently, the deepest channels — at 50 feet — are in Virginia, Baltimore and Miami. New York/New Jersey is almost done with its deepening to 50 feet but now has to deal with the issue of the Bayonne Bridge, whose vertical clearance limits all but one of the port’s main terminals."

Residents living near Bayonne Bridge say they are fed up after project gets delayed 2 more years

Verizon FiOS1 News - New Jersey: "Many say noisy construction site brings issues for them all day, all night" [Video]

Delayed Bayonne Bridge project could hamper other ports

WNYW: "Delays on a project to raise a bridge in New Jersey by 64 feet could lead to other East Coast ports losing out on larger cargo vessels expected to begin passing through a newly expanded Panama Canal next spring."

Public meeting on Bayonne Bridge construction delay to happen soon, council president says

NJ.com: "City Council President Sharon Nadrowski told The Jersey Journal the meeting is expected to take place within the next few weeks but couldn't say at this point which Port Authority officials will be attending."

Panama Canal Administrator Expects New Locks to Open On Time

WSJ: "Norfolk, Va., Portsmouth, Va., Miami and Baltimore currently are the deepest U.S. East Coast ports, at around 50 feet. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has completed dredging New York Harbor to 50 feet and is spending $1.3 billion to raise the clearance of the Bayonne Bridge for taller vessels to go through. Savannah, Ga., is deepening its harbor to 47 feet from 42, and Charleston, S.C., to 52 feet from 45."

1 thing We Love About Morris County

The Reservoir Bridge(s): "There's the newer, bigger and taller $15 million bridge, opened in 2006 and named after Boonton native Othmar Hermann Ammann, best known for designing the George Washington, Verrazano-Narrows and Bayonne bridges."

While Bayonne Bridge delay causes problems for others, it won’t impact Port of Charleston

Post and Courier: "“While we regret the delay of the Bayonne Bridge project, it will not deter the continued deployment of large containerships to the East Coast,” said Jim Newsome, the SPA’s president and CEO."

Editorial: Suddenly, a delay? That bridge we don't buy

NJBIZ: "We fully support the Bayonne Bridge project. What frustrates us is the way the process has been managed."

Bayonne Bridge to close from 9 p.m. today to 5 a.m. Monday

NJ.com: "The weekend closing was scheduled in conjunction with other regional agencies to minimize traffic impacts, the bi-state agency said. The Bayonne Bridge shuttle service will not operate this weekend."

Bayonne Bridge's raising falls victim to capital project 'creep' (editorial)

SILive.com: "Most Staten Islanders probably haven't really seen much of the Bayonne Bridge rebuilding project, at least up-close. But those who have, especially those who use this little-known conduit between our borough and northern New Jersey and points north, know that it's a colossal undertaking."

The Difference Makers

John Alexander Low Waddell |: "In this series, we take a deeper look at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Difference Makers, the men and women who have been instrumental to the formation and continual success of our agency. In our second installment, we are focusing on John Alexander Low Waddell, a critical figure in the earliest days of the Port Authority’s existence."

PA: Bayonne Bridge ‘Raise-the-Roadway’ Project Delayed to End of 2017

Photos - Working Harbor Committee

Letter: Bayonne's mayor fails to stand up to Port Authority in bridge projecT

Letter: NJ.com

The Difference Makers 101

The Port Authority is Born |: " The matter of Port development is critical. It affects the housing problems; it affects the cost of living; it affects the cost of doing business within the Port of New York; business is leaving New York because of inadequate facilities, and rival ports are taking advantage of delays in the development of New York’s plans in order to strengthen their own position. —  Alfred Smith, 1920"

Skanska JV's NJ Bayonne Bridge project delayed 2 years

Construction Dive: "Although the project will not be complete until 2019, larger container ships, the Port Authority said, will be able to utilize the bridge’s increased navigational clearance in late 2017."

Late hours at DCs may be key to resolving NY-NJ port congestion

JOC.com: "That is why, as the port prepares itself to handle even larger ships that will arrive following the expansion of the Panama Canal, the raising of the Bayonne Bridge, and completion of the port’s 50-foot deepening project, attention is turning to the region’s hundreds of distribution centers as a potential relief valve.  

“What we need to do in the future is find supply chain solutions, not just port solutions, John Nardi, president of the New York Shipping Association told the Port Industry Day. “If the warehouse isn’t opened the port gets blamed, so this is something we collectively need to work on.”"

America’s Top Container Ports

Global Trade Magazine: "PORT OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
Turning limitations into assets led Port of New York and New Jersey authorities to recently deepen the port’s harbor to 50 feet and raise the Bayonne Bridge by 64 feet. Previously, the port’s infrastructure restricted larger container ships, admits Richard Larrabee, director of Port Commerce. The port is also benefiting from a $700 million investment in on-dock rail infrastructure, which streamlines the handling of the region’s key vehicle, plastic and wood pulp exports."

Port Authority Announces Revised Timeline for Bayonne Bridge Project

New Jersey Business Magazine: "Navigational clearance at the Bayonne Bridge for the world’s largest container ships under the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s ambitious “Raise the Roadway” project is now expected in late 2017, according to the agency’s revised timetable for the complex undertaking.  Project completion is expected in mid-2019, potentially resulting in an increase in total project costs of approximately 15 percent."

Bayonne Bridge delay: Can't anybody here play this game? (commentary)

SILive.com: "The Bayonne is generally the most unsung of the four bridges that touch the Island. But it's a crucial link in that it gives North Shore residents in particular an option if the Outerbridge Crossing and the Goethals Bridge are jammed with traffic."

Bayonne Bridge closure for this weekend shortened to just tonight due to weather

NJ.com: "The Bayonne Bridge closure for this weekend has been shortened to last only from Friday night to Saturday morning in anticipation of stormy weather, the Port Authority has announced.

The bridge was previously scheduled to close from 9 p.m. tonight until 5 a.m. on Monday; it is now scheduled to close from 11:59 p.m. tonight until 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, the bi-state agency said."

Bayonne Bridge to close from 9 p.m. tonight until 5 a.m. Monday

NJ.com: "The weekend closure was scheduled in conjunction with other regional agencies to minimize traffic impacts, the bi-state agency said, adding that the Bayonne Bridge shuttle service will not operate this weekend."

Connect With The Port Authority

Navigation Clearance Project - Bayonne Bridge - The Port Authority of NY & NJ: "If you have any questions related to the Bayonne Bridge project, please send us an email at bayonnebridge@panynj.gov or call 855-265-5482."

Bayonne Bridge construction set back by two years, Port Authority announces

NJ.com: "Construction on the Bayonne Bridge "Raise the Roadway" project has been set back by two years and won't be completed until mid-2019, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced today."

Bayonne Bridge Update - 9/29/2015

City of Bayonne, NJ - Official Website: "Mayor Jimmy Davis announced that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has provided new information to the City of Bayonne about the Bayonne Bridge construction project."

Partial weekend closures scheduled for Bayonne Bridge

SILive.com: " The Bayonne Bridge will be closed all day Saturday to accommodate "Raise the Roadway" construction.

Closures will span from 11:59 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, until 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 27."

How Lengthy Environmental Review Harms the Environment

Philip K. Howard: "Environmental review has instead evolved into an agonizing crawl through years of meetings and mind-numbing detail. A project to raise the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge has almost no environmental impact -- it uses the same foundations and right of way -- but nonetheless required a 10,000 page environmental assessment."

Port Authority Photographer Mike Dombrowski: One Man Show |

Port Authority: "These photos by Mike Dombrowski need no words.  But since my role as editor compels me to write something, how about jaw-dropping, mind-boggling, thrilling, compelling and often amazingly beautiful. I could go on, but words only get in the way.  Please click on any image that strikes your fancy and enter into the world of Port Authority infrastructure as captured in a way you’ve never seen before.  I promise you’ll be hooked."

Bayonne Bridge progress

The Newtown Pentacle: "Your humble narrator was onboard solely to photograph this time around, and I soon found myself focusing in on the Bayonne Bridge reconstruction project."

Bayonne Bridge Schedule, Sept. 18 - 27, 2015

City of Bayonne, NJ - Official Website: "Daily schedule
*Monday September 21 – 9am – 3pm closure*
Monday September 21– 8:30pm – 5:00 am closure
Tuesday September 22– No Closure/Yom Kippur
Tuesday September 22 – No Closure/Yom Kippur
*Wednesday September 23 – 9am – 3pm closure*
Wednesday September 23 – 8:30pm – 5:00 am closure
*Thursday September 24 – 9am – 3pm closure*
Thursday September 24 – 8:30pm – 5:00 am closure
*Friday September 25 – 9am – 3pm closure*
Friday September 25 – 9pm closure
 
The Bayonne Bridge will close Friday, September 25, at 11:59pm and reopen Sunday, September 27, at 8am.
 
*Six-hour daytime full closures are scheduled for Monday - Friday, from 9am – 3pm."

Vintage photos: Bayonne's bridges and waterways

NJ.com: "Through the years, Bayonne's bridges and waterways have offered its residents and visitors stunning displays of engineering feats and nature's beauty.

Browse through the gallery above to get a glimpse of how the Peninsula City's transportation infrastructure has progressed through the years, in photographs taken from the late 19th to mid-20th century.

The images -- just a sample of those available at the Bayonne Public Library -- include those of the Morris and Essex Canal in 1894, the groundbreaking of the Bayonne Bridge in 1928 and the filling of the shore of the Kill Van Kull in 1965."

Bayonne Bridge underway Navigational Clearance Project

Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Nice pic!

Bayonne Bridge to close this weekend

Hudson Reporter: "The Bayonne Bridge will close for part of the Sept. 18 to 20 weekend to accommodate construction work on the “Raise the Roadway” project, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey announced.

The bridge will be closed overnight from 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, to 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19. It will remain open during the day Saturday, and will be closed again overnight from 9 p.m. Saturday to 9 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. The bridge will then remain open Sunday. "

Big news for Port of Halifax

The Chronicle Herald: "The Panama Canal is set to conclude its expansion next year, and a $1.3-billion project to increase the clearance height of the Bayonne Bridge, which connects New York City’s Staten Island borough with New Jersey, is underway."

Charleston port gets federal OK to deepen channel

JOC.com: "The Corps’ smart planning policy holds promise for other East Coast ports that are scrambling to deepen their harbors in anticipation of the Panama Canal enlargement project, and the heightening project at the Bayonne Bridge in New Jersey that will provide access for big ships to the largest container port on the coast. "

Bayonne Bridge daytime closures continue this week

New Jersey news: "On Saturday and Sunday, the bridge will remain closed between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m."

Bayonne Bridge daytime closures continue this week

Jersey Tribune: "The Department of Transportation is reminding motorists that the Bayonne Bridge will experience closures throughout the day this week as part of the “Raise the Roadway” project.

While the bridge will be open during the peak of rush hour, it will remain closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. Monday through Thursday, the bridge will close overnight from 8:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. "

Bayonne Bridge Construction 4 17 15 Video

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bayonne public library

bayonnefyi: "A bridge not too far leads to the hot dogs, history, and parkland of Hudson County’s Peninsula City, Bayonne. Here are some fun places to visit:"

Bayonne Bridge open today after rain halts construction work

NJ.com: "A rainy day isn't such a bad thing after all, at least for people commuting between Bayonne and Staten Island."

'Dust Lady,' Marcy Borders was a fighter, sister recalls

NJ.com: "Dawn Borders sat along the water near the Bayonne Bridge, her sister's favorite place, on the afternoon of her wake and funeral, remembering the life of the strongest person she knew."

Port of Melbourne: Ships may soon be too big to pass under West Gate Bridge

The Age: "New Jersey is raising the Bayonne Bridge, at a cost of $US1.29 billion ($1.86 million), to avoid this problem."

Vintage photos: Bayonne's bridges and waterways

Vintage photos: Bayonne's bridges and waterways | NJ.com:

BAYONNE COMMUNITY UPDATE

To date, the Bayonne Bridge “Raise the Roadway” Project is approximately 40 percent complete, with 27 percent of pier segments, and 17 percent of roadway segments installed. Estimated completion of the new northbound roadway is late 2016, at which time all traffic will be switched to
the new, higher  roadway, and removal of the existing roadway will begin. For more, click here.

Bayonne Bridge open over holiday weekend

Hudson Reporter: "The Bayonne Bridge will be open over the Labor Day Weekend, as construction on the “Raise the Roadway” Navigational Clearance Project will be suspended from 5 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4, through 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8. "

An interactive look at future Staten Island developments

SILive.com: "The $1.3 billion "Raise the Roadway" project, which seeks to raise the Bayonne Bridge 64 feet — from 151 feet to 215 feet above the Kill van Kull — should be fully complete by the second quarter of 2017. Currently the span has the lowest navigational clearance of any bridge in the area and one of the lowest in the country. When it's finished, the bridge will have four 12-foot wide lanes — two in each direction – a 12-foot wide pedestrian/biking path, nearly 5-foot wide shoulders on each side and the option to run light rail across in the future. The elevated Jersey-bound lanes should be complete some time in 2016, at which point they’ll open to traffic, but the entire span, with a new roadway, medians and walkway won't be done until the second quarter of 2017."

Putting Donald Trump on the Couch

The New York Times: "Othmar H. Ammann was born in Switzerland, not Sweden, in 1879, and came to the United States in 1904. He proposed, designed and oversaw the construction of the George Washington Bridge and was closely involved with others around the country, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco among them. As the chief engineer of the Port Authority of New York and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, he oversaw the building of the Lincoln Tunnel, the Outerbridge Crossing and the Bronx-Whitestone, Throgs Neck, Triborough, Bayonne and Goethals Bridges."