Heavy load
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- September
- 27
Last weekend, we decided to head down to City Island (in the Bronx) for dinner, and pick up Grandma on the way. Both kids had friends over who wanted to go. We figured, the more the merrier. Then, we realized we’d have to take two cars so everyone could fit. We shrugged, loaded everyone in our two smallish sedans and off we went.
No biggie. But, think about the Tappan Zee Bridge deck repair project under way (well, on hold right now) that was bringing in prefabricated panels for much-needed deck repairs. The flatbed trucks that were carting the panels from a New Jersey plant to Rockland apparently were not equipped to carry the weight they were hauling, so they were failing inspections by New York State Police.
Until the project contractor can get big enough trucks from around the country, the repairs are on hold, TJN staff writer Khurram Saeed reports today.
I dunno. We figured out that we needed vehicles big enough to haul our load of kids (not really weight, but number of seatbelts. Though, the boys did eat their weight in lobster, but that’s another story…)
No one thought, as they were awarding this $147 million project, to make sure they had a way to get the panels (some are 50 feet long) to the site?
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on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 10:24 am by Nancy Cutler.
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