Span's replacement team takes aim at hurdles

The first of two spans opened on June 11 on the new Goethals Bridge, which connects New Jersey and Staten Island.

Squeezed between two states with different geologies and between above-and-below clearance limits due to marine and air traffic, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey’s Goethals Bridge, which spans Staten Island’s Arthur Kill strait, represents the agency’s first use of a public-private partnership on a bridge project.

No longer a novelty, the project-delivery method concept is spreading and evolving as transportation agencies look for best practices.