(rshsdepot) Arthur Kill Bridge Reopens after 17 years

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Railroad bridge reopens after 17 years, $160M
Posted by The Star-Ledger April 02, 2007 11:50AM
Categories: News
A railroad bridge across the Arthur Kill reopened this morning when freight train chugged through the fog on its way from Elizabeth to pick up a shipment of garbage in Staten Island.

After workers loaded 16 cargo containers of garbage onto the train, it is scheduled to head back across the refurbished lift bridge this afternoon and bring the trash to a transfer station in Elizabeth.

New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey invested $160 million to refurbish the bridge, which had been closed for 17 years.

For the next several weeks, one garbage train per day will cross the bridge into New Jersey. If things run well, a second train - this one hauling freight cars from New York Container Terminal - will also use the bridge every day.

Port Authority officials estimate that the rail bridge will divert more than 40,000 trucks from the Goethals Bridge during its first year of operation.

Contributed by Joe Malinconico

Jim Dent
Oakland, NJ
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