One of The World’s Largest Cranes Arrives In NY to Begin Construction On Tappan Zee

A trip that began off the California coast, just days before Christmas of 2013, has finally come to an end. The Left Coast Lifter (now nicknamed I Lift NY) arrived at the Port of New York and New Jersey last week, and will be docked at a facility in Jersey City, until next spring when it is ready to begin work on the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

Gov. Cuomo said..

It is fitting that New York’s most ambitious infrastructure project of the 21st century includes one of the world’s biggest floating cranes. The I Lift NY super crane can lift the equivalent of 12 Statues of Liberty at once, and its ability to lift huge modular components of the new bridge into place and to help dismantle the old bridge will reduce construction time by months and reduce project costs by millions of dollars

The first part of the bridge will open in 2016 and will be completed in 2018.

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