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Re: (erielack) Lackawanna and Concrete



Montgomery, Edward T wrote:
> What I find interesting is the planning Lackawanna put into these 
> bridge designs.  Someone must of have been considering the increase 
> in automobile traffic back then.  It would have been very easy to 
> make the Taylortown Road Bridge a one lane hole-in-the wall but they 
> didn't.  The same goes for the road widths of the underpasses on the 
> Cut-off.  The engineering department was looking ahead making sure 
> they wouldn't have to come back in 15-20 years and install a bridge 
> to accommodate a wider roadway.

I think it is more likely that by the early 1920s New Jersey mandated
that the bridge abutments had to be outside of the road Right of Way.

bob gillis

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