Newburgh–Beacon Bridge
41.519246 - 73.994293Koordinaten: 41 ° 31 ' 9.3 "N, 73 ° 59' 39.5 " W
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As Newburgh - Beacon Bridge, and Hamilton Fish Newburgh - Beacon Bridge, two adjacent girder bridges are called, spanning the Hudson River in upstate New York about 90 km north of New York City between the cities of Newburgh and Beacon. They carry the highway I-84, the New York State Route 52, and a pedestrian walkway and are used daily by about 65,000 vehicles.
History
Between located on the west bank of the Hudson River town of Newburgh and the towns of Fishkill Landing Matteawan and east of the river, from which in 1913 gave rise to the city Beacon, 1743 was a ferry. Middle of the 20th century were included considerations that only for people, but not for cars usable ferry to be replaced by a bridge, and thus east of the Hudson River to bind areas to the west of the river resulting toll highway New York State Thruway. Then survey work was carried out, based on which the bridge was approved by the New York State Assembly in February 1953 In the fall of 1951. The competent New York State Bridge Authority ( NYSBA ), however, were initially granted no funds for construction.
1956, the course of the future, running east -west highway I-84 has been set, which should cross the Hudson on the Newburgh - Beacon Bridge planned. 1959 should then be started using federal funds to build a four-lane bridge. After these funds, however, were not also in the following years are available, the NYSBA decided, at the instigation of Governor Nelson Rockefeller to finance the construction of a two-lane bridge only from its own funds. According to a draft of which was founded by Ralph Modjeski company Modjeski & Masters then a total of 2,394 meters was a long time from 1 April 1960, and 19.5 million -US-dollar bridge construction, which was opened on 2 November 1963.
Already in the first year of operation in 1964 approximately 25,000 vehicles used the bridge - that number for which was originally a four-lane bridge provided before the forecasts were revised downwards. After the traffic volume increased further in the following years, the mid- 1970s were discussed ways to increase capacity. Supplementing the existing bridge to more roadways above or below the existing route was rejected because the original design was not designed. Instead, it was adopted in 1975, immediately south of the existing crossing to build a second bridge with four lanes. The planning turn Modjeski & Masters was commissioned, the official start of construction took place on 1 June 1976. After nearly four years of construction, the 93.6 million -US-dollar southern crossing was opened on 1 November 1980.
The northern bridge was then rebuilt in the next four years and extended to one lane, then reconfigured the four lanes of the newer southern construction to three tracks. In 1997 the official name of the two bridges was supplemented to Hamilton Fish Newburgh - Beacon Bridge to honor the achievements of the politician Hamilton Fish.
The ferry service between Newburgh and Beacon, was set on November 2, 1963 one day after the opening of the first bridge. Primary connection to the city of Newburgh to the Beacon station on the Hudson Line New York City Poughkeepsie Metro - North Railroad to the ferry but was resumed in the fall of 2005.
Construction
Core elements of both bridges are cantilevered steel girder with a length of 305 meters, but not in the middle of the Hudson River, but considerably west of it. The rest of the distance is spanned by a shorter truss of different lengths, which is west of the main sources per bridge three and east are eight. Both designs are rust-colored. While the older, northern bridge was deleted accordingly, which the carrier of the southern construction of a Corten steel alloy, in which the oxidation of the outermost layer acts as a rust protection for the core.