In three decades of projects with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, chief engineer James Starace has no doubt that the “Raise the Roadway” project is the most challenging he has ever worked on.
When drivers began using two new lanes of the Bayonne Bridge between Staten Island and New Jersey last month, they crossed not only the Kill Van Kull waterway but also a nexus between a historic engineering past and a modern engineering present.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced earlier this month that the completion of a bridge project in Bayonne, New Jersey, has been delayed by two years.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has awarded more than $2 billion worth of contracts for long-anticipated work on three bridges spanning Staten Island and New Jersey—including the region's first major public-private partnership (P3) to replace the Goethals Bridge, at $1.5 billion.
