Goethals Bridge

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Coordinates: 40 ° 38 ′ 8 "  N , 74 ° 11 ′ 50"  W.

Goethals Bridge
Goethals Bridge
Convicted I278 Interstate 278
Crossing of Arthur Kill
place New York City - Elizabeth (New Jersey)
Entertained by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
construction Cable-stayed bridge
overall length 2225 m
width 2 × 16.14 m
Longest span 274.3 m
start of building May 2014
opening May 2018
planner Parsons Corp.
toll electronically
location
Goethals Bridge (New York City)
Goethals Bridge

The Goethals Bridge is a road bridge that connects the north of the New York borough of Staten Island at Howland Hook with Elizabeth , New Jersey . It crosses the Arthur Kill , a strait that separates Staten Island from the mainland and is an important gateway to New York Harbor . The first bridge, opened in 1929, was replaced by a new building in 2018.

In addition to the Bayonne Bridge and the Outerbridge Crossing , it is one of three road connections from Staten Island to New Jersey and provides the connection between the New Jersey Turnpike ( I-95 ) and the Staten Island Expressway (I-278), which continues to Verrazzano -Narrows Bridge leads.

It is named after Major General George W. Goethals , one of the builders of the Panama Canal who was also the first consulting engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to operate the bridge.

The bridge is used by around 35.2 million vehicles annually. In an easterly direction, an electronic toll is collected when passing through .

Goethals Bridge (2018)

The new building, which opened in May 2018, consists of two parallel cable-stayed bridges . Each bridge has 3 lanes and a hard shoulder as well as a narrow safety lane on the left. The north bridge also has a 10 foot walk and bike path outside the stay cables, which offers sweeping views of the New York skyline.

As before and like the Outerbridge Crossing, the bridge has a headroom of 42.2 m (138.5  ft ) above MHW . Larger ships of the post-Panamax class on their way to the nearby New York Container Terminal or the port facilities on Newark Bay pass through the Bayonne Bridge , the girder of which was increased to 66 m in 2017.

Technical details

The two bridge structures are around 2225 m long (7300 ft). They consist of the actual, 604 m (1982.5 ft) long cable-stayed bridges with 274.32 m (900 ft) wide main, 112 m (367.5 ft) wide side and 57.9 m (190 ft) and 48 m (157.5 ft) wide side openings as well as the 781 m (2564 ft) long western ramp bridges (New Jersey approaches) and the 850 m (2789 ft) long eastern ramp bridges (New York approaches).

The lanes and emergency lanes are each 3.66 m wide, the safety lanes are 1.5 m wide. In total, a deck girder is 16.14 m wide. The roadway girder consists of a steel grid that was connected with prefabricated lightweight concrete slabs . The access ramps are prestressed concrete T - beam bridges .

The four pylon stems from reinforced concrete were allowed because of the proximity of the Newark Liberty International Airport no higher than 82.9 m (272 ft). The stay cables are therefore arranged flatter than usual; their smallest angle to the road is only 15 °. The outwardly inclined position of the pylons is intended to prevent ice from falling off the ropes onto the traffic in winter.

The bridges were made by Parsons Corp. planned and carried out in the period from May 2014 to May 2018. First the southern bridge was built, which then took over the traffic of the old bridge on provisionally set up 2 + 2 lanes. During the construction of the second bridge, the old bridge was dismantled.

Involved

The bridge was realized through a public private partnership , the first project in the history of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The NYNJ Link team was founded to plan, build, finance, maintain and maintain the bridge over a period of 35 years. It consists of:

Systra / International Bridge Technologies (IBT) from San Diego , California was appointed as test engineer for the NYNJ Link team . The Port Authority's monitoring duties were carried out by HNTB, a large engineering company based in Kansas City , Missouri .

Goethals Bridge (1929)

Goethals Bridge (1929)
Goethals Bridge (1929)
The old Goethals Bridge, behind it the arch of the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge
construction Gerber girder bridge
overall length 2164 m
width 18.90 m
Longest span 205 m
opening June 29, 1929
planner John Alexander Low Waddell

The bridge was one of the first projects by the Port Authority, founded in 1921. Designed by John Alexander Low Waddell steel truss - Gerber girder bridge was released on 29 June 1929 together with the almost identical Outerbridge Crossing to traffic.

Including its long access ramps, it was a total of 2164 m long. The actual truss bridge was 351 m long; the longest span was 205 m. It had 4 lanes, each 3.00 m wide, but no hard shoulder, pedestrian or bicycle lanes.

literature

Web links

Commons : Goethals Bridge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Goethals Bridge on the website of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
  2. ↑ 2019 Monthly Traffic on the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey website
  3. ↑ 2020 Toll Rates on the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey website
  4. ^ A b Seth Condell, Thomas Spoth: Originality Built In. In: Civil Engineering , June 2019, on asce.org
  5. ↑ Goethals Bridge Replacement on parsons.com
  6. ↑ Weeks
  7. ^ Massman Construction Co.
  8. ^ Systra International Bridge Technologies
  9. ↑ HNTB
  10. ^ Goethals Bridge - History on the website of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
  11. ↑ Goethals Bridge - Facts & Info on the website of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey