Left Coast Lifter Debuts at Tappan Zee

I Lift New York...

 

Left Coast Lifter at the Tappan Zee Bridge

 

 

 

 

 

The Left Coast Lifter, one of the world's largest floating cranes, made its debut at its destination yesterday: the Tappan Zee Bridge, which many of us have often used over the years.

 

Among those on hand to greet the giant crane was Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who made the decision to build a $3.9 billion, twin-span replacement for the aging three-mile-long Tappan Zee after more than a decade of delays and studies by former governors and other public officials, the New York Times reported.

 

Nicknamed I Lift NY, the super crane is an important factor in New York's most ambitious infrastructure project of the 21st Century. 

 

It will be used to install large sections of the new bridge, some weighing up to 1,000 tons.

 

The huge crane traveled from its home on San Francisco Bay, through the Panama Canal and then up the East coast.

 

For more from the New York Times, including an interesting video history of New York and its bridges and the Tappan Zee project:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/nyregion/giant-floating-crane-reaches-tappan-zee-site.html