Port Authority: Bayonne Bridge temporarily closed due to injured worker

NJ.com: "The 49-year-old man sustained a severe injury to his leg this afternoon on the lower level of the Bridge that is being demolished, according to Joseph Pentangelo, spokesman for the Port Authority Police Department."

Bayonne Bridge reopened; equipment cleared from roadway

SILive.com: "The PA closed the bridge to traffic Sunday in both directions at around 10:50 a.m. on Sunday. The bridge reopened at 12:12 p.m. after the equipment was removed, said Joseph Pentangelo, a PA spokesman.

"ESU has secured the equipment,which was hanging. There was a visual inspection of the bridge and details to follow," he said."

The Bayonne Bridge is now closed in both directions due to emergency construction

Port Authority Alerts & Advisories: "The Bayonne Bridge is now closed in both directions due to emergency construction. Please plan alternate route."

Overnight closure of Bayonne Bridge is announced

NJ.com: The Bayonne Bridge will be closed from midnight tonight until 8 a.m. tomorrow, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials said.

Managing the New Panamax Containerships

Maritime Professional: "“We’re thrilled to have CMA CGM T. Roosevelt call at our port and serve as the celebratory vessel for the raising of the Bayonne Bridge,” Molly Campbell, Port Director at the Port of New York and New Jersey, explained in a prepared statement. “We invested billions of dollars to raise the Bayonne Bridge, deepen harbor channels, install rail facilities at all of our terminals and improve our port road network, with the goal of attracting the world’s biggest ships and cargo to our port and the jobs and economic activity they provide,” she added. "

Port of New York and New Jersey sees container traffic rise 24 percent

Transportation Today: "The completion of the 20-year Harbor Deepening Project contributed to this growth, the report said. The project raised the deck of the Bayonne Bridge and dredged the main channel to a depth of 50 feet."

Bayonne Bridge to be open all weekend

SILive.com: "The bridge is scheduled to be open on weekends for the rest of the year, but will be closed on certain Friday nights, according to the Port Authority."

New York’s Majestic Passage in the Sky | The New Yorker

The New Yorker: " Of all the city’s bridges, the Bayonne Bridge is the most powerful and intimate work of modernist-era art. Nothing half as tall stands near it. Sky fills the girders’ interstices and geometries, and above the arch the clouds rise dramatically. The bridge spans the Kill Van Kull, a body of water about two thousand feet across at its widest and about eight hundred feet at its narrowest. It is the color of lead and looks beat-up and hard-used."

Bayonne Bridge to close Friday night, will reopen Saturday

SILive.com: "The Port Authority will close the span at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3, to accommodate construction as part of the "Raise the Roadway" project. The bridge will reopen Saturday, Nov. 4, at 8 a.m., and it will remain open the rest of the weekend."

Bayonne Bridge Heightening Prompts Port Newark Expansion

Jersey Digs: "The Port Newark Container Terminal (PNCT), which sits between the New Jersey Turnpike and the Newark Bay in Essex County, will undergo multiple changes now that the Bayonne Bridge has been raised."

Sky's the Limit

Global Trade Magazine: "When the 14,400 TEU CMA CGM T. Roosevelt inaugurated the new bridge in early September, having just weeks earlier become the largest container ship to pass through the Panama Canal, everything was back to normal; only bigger, which turned out to make things better."

Bayonne Bridge to be open most weekends until January

SILive.com: "This weekend, the Bayonne Bridge will close at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, and will reopen at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 29, according to Coleman.

"After next weekend, there are no more weekend closures anticipated through the end of this year," he said.

"Beginning next month, due to the contractor's progress and upcoming holidays and winter season, Monday through Thursday overnight closures will be suspended until early spring 2018," he added."

Nice weekend weather? Let's close the Bayonne Bridge (commentary)

SILive.com: "We're supposed to have some nice weather this weekend. Mid-70s. Sunny. Lots of folks are going to be out driving. A lot of them are going to be going to New Jersey, either to shop, visit friends or enjoy what's likely going to be one of the few remaining pleasant weekends before the colder, drearier weather sets in."

Bayonne Bridge and Holland Tunnel undergoing lane closures this weekend

NJ.com: "The Bayonne Bridge will be closed this weekend to accommodate ongoing construction on the crossing. The roadway, which connects Bayonne and Staten Island, will be closed to 5 a.m. Monday."

Officials Consider Building Aerial Gondola System Between NY & NJ

CBS New York: "The Staten Island Economic Development Corporation is calling for a nearly two mile-long system with gondolas that are somewhat smaller than the Roosevelt Island trams. They would rise 500 feet above the Kill Van Kull and run adjacent to the Bayonne Bridge."

Big ship jitters voiced at Port Industry Days

AJOT.COM: "The completion of the raising of the Bayonne Bridge roadbed in June had the immediate effect of attracting a new generation of giant containerships to the port, with the prospect of increasing cargo volumes but also port congestion."

Bayonne Bridge to stay open for long holiday weekend

NJ.com: "The bridge will be closed from midnight tonight until 8 a.m. Saturday, and then remain open until 7 p.m. Monday, Columbus Day. Next week, the bridge will be closed during the overnight hours from Oct. 9-12, from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning."

Weekend Schedule

Port Authority of NY & NJ: "The bridge will be closed from 11:59 p.m. Friday, September 22, and reopen by 8 a.m. Saturday, September 23. Once the bridge reopens on Saturday, it is not scheduled to close again until 7 p.m. Monday, September 25. The bridge will be closed during the overnight hours on Tuesday through Thursday, September 26 through September 28, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning."

Port Authority: Bayonne Bridge closed this weekend, lane closures scheduled for Holland Tunnel

NJ.com: "The bridge will be closed through the weekend to accommodate ongoing construction, officials said. The bridge will reopen at 5 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 18.

The Avenue A off-ramp from Route 440 will also be closed until midnight tonight, and traffic will be diverted at 5th Street."

Regional Plan Association proposes 1,650-mile Tri-State Trail system

Curbed NY: "There are three proposed routes that would extend from New York City, all of which already have existing trails that would need to be expanded or connected. The first is the Harbor Ring, which would connect Lower Manhattan via ferry to Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne, across the Bayonne Bridge to Staten Island, then over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge over to the Brooklyn Greenway and across the Brooklyn Bridge."