Gothamist<\/a> that he had no time to stop before his car crashed into a piece of debris that he thought was concrete. He said that the collision damaged the front end of his car and blew out a tire.<\/p>\n\u201cIf I would have been one or two seconds further forward, instead of that piece of concrete hitting the front of the car, it could have come through the windshield, and I wouldn\u2019t be speaking to you,\u201d Mr. Toledo was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
The George Washington Bridge, which spans the Hudson River and connects Manhattan to New Jersey, is 95 years old. With more than 100,000 cars and 10,000 trucks crossing it on a typical day, it is a key source of revenue for the Port Authority. The standard toll for eastbound vehicles is $23.30. For E-ZPass users, the toll during peak hours is $16.79.<\/p>\n
The Trans-Manhattan Expressway was built when a second, lower level was added to the bridge about 30 years later. It connects the bridge to a heavily trafficked section of Interstate 95 known as the Cross-Bronx Expressway and passes under apartment buildings and a bus terminal operated by the Port Authority.<\/p>\n
The Port Authority said that the sections of the ceiling that had crumbled do not support the apartment buildings, known as the Bridge Apartments, that are above the expressway. Those buildings have their own, separate supports, the agency said.<\/p>\n
The Port Authority dispatched more than 40 workers to inspect and repair the overhead sections and remove loose material, it said. They inspected 72,000 square feet of overhead structure and installed 2,000 square feet of netting, the agency said.<\/p>\n
Making improvements to the expressway overpasses was already on the Port Authority\u2019s to-do list before these incidents, the agency said. Its 10-year capital plan, approved late last year, includes more than $250 million for a project to fortify the overpasses. That project is being designed, the agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falling chunks of concrete and other debris have become the latest hazard for New York City drivers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10923,90006,13405,91593,26802,39353,28924,1066,9,24,56,63,65,64,21695,10924],"class_list":["post-233387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-automobiles","tag-bridges-and-tunnels","tag-concrete","tag-cross-bronx-expressway-bronx","tag-george-washington-bridge","tag-interstate-95","tag-manhattan-nyc","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-port-authority-of-new-york-and-new-jersey","tag-roads-and-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}