{"id":500044,"date":"2020-10-18T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webuildvalue.com\/?p=500044"},"modified":"2024-06-05T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T08:25:00","slug":"new-york-5-billion-for-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webuildvalue.com\/en\/infrastructure\/new-york-5-billion-for-bridges.html","title":{"rendered":"New York bridges: key infrastructures for urban mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Bridges<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bridges are a vital\npart of a country\u2019s infrastructure for mobility, commerce and bringing people\ntogether<\/strong>. They are modern structures\nthat help economies grow and contribute to the development of a community. It\nwas the Industrial Revolution, which exploded in 1800s, to turn them into\nsymbols of an age that came to challenge the laws of physics and mechanics\nthanks to the rise of engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their impact also\nleft a footprint on the development of great metropolises such as in the unique\nand important case of New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New York City there are 789 bridges<\/strong> that represent a key strength in urban mobility because they respond to the demand of a frenetic metropolis in perpetual change. A heritage of infrastructure that is managed by New York City\u2019s Department of Transportation<\/strong>, which is committed to inspect, monitor and maintain existing bridges and supervise the construction of new public works. All of this needs a huge investment: in the last five years, 5 billion dollars<\/strong> in federal, state and municipal funds were spent to make sure that 8.4 million New Yorkers can move freely<\/strong>, meet each other and do business throughout the metropolitan area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Bridge: costs and investments<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The plan to manage and maintain the bridges of New York <\/strong>are contained in the latest report by the Department of Transportation, signed by Michele N. Vulcan, lead analyst of the Bridge Division. He and 832 others inspect, monitor and manage the 789 bridges of New York<\/strong>, a rich heritage accumulated over more than 100 years that obviously carried with it a high cost of maintenance. In recent years, according to the report, the city, the state and the federal government have spent $5 billion for the upkeep of existing bridges and the construction of new ones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"New<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are 23 bridges being built<\/strong>, ranging from the Madison Avenue Bridge over the Harlem River to the one at the Ninth and Third Streets of the Gowanus Canal. There still many new bridges that are still in the phase of planning (79 projects according to the city\u2019s Department of Transportation) many of which should start to be built by 2016.
Meanwhile, most of the work concerns repairing existing infrastructure<\/a>. In this regard the Brooklyn Bridge<\/strong> is an important case because it is a symbol of New York. Inaugurated in 1883, it is the recipient of a massive $1.1 billion investment that began in 1981 and will end in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brooklyn Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The busiest bridges in New York City<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the massive amount\nof funds earmarked for these works and the commitment of the people involved,\nthere is an effort to guarantee residents and all those who come to work\nor visit New York an efficient mobility system able to absorb the mass of\npeople, cars and trucks that move throughout the entire metropolitan area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridges<\/strong>, in this sense, are precious instruments that connect the peripheral neighborhoods of the East River such as Brooklyn and Queens to Manhattan<\/strong>, the pulsing heart of the Big Apple. It is along these great arteries that impressive traffic statistics are registered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Department of Transportation,\u00a0the number of vehicles that cross the biggest bridges on a daily basis is impressive.\u00a0The record is held by the\u00a0Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge<\/a><\/strong>, the most crowded of them all with more than 180,000 vehicles a day<\/strong>. Next is the Mill Basin Bridge with 141,000; then the Brooklyn Bridge with 124,000; the Williamsburg Bridge with 111,000; and finally the Manhattan Bridge with 75,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the great channels that connect Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx <\/a>to Manhattan, and, together with the hundreds of smaller and less known bridges, bring nearly one million people on a daily basis to the most famous island in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New York bridges: a sustainable investment<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If on the one hand\nmanaging this great heritage has its costs, on the other the return that the\ncity receives in terms of development and economic growth are clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, one\nof the few analyses on the economic impact of American infrastructure dates\nback to 2012 and it was done by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco<\/strong>.\nAnalysizing the consequences in economic terms of recently built works, the\nbank\u2019s analysts discovered that in only 10 years infrastructure<\/strong>, by\nmeans of the rise in wealth that the community produces, does not only\npay for itself but guarantees a notable growth in GDP<\/strong>. In general,\naccording to the bank, every dollar spent in building infrastructure such as a\nbridge or a road correspondents to two dollars of growth in the GDP of the\nregion serviced by this infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this is the precious inheritance offered by a work of engineering  of this kind: the ability to return to the community not only the investment earmarked for its construction but something more. An added value that can be measured in terms of trade, modernization and integration – ingredients that are needed for the development of people and the growth of an economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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