The “Left Coast Lifter” has arrived in New York. The Lifter is described by the New York Times as the “superman of floating cranes.” It is a shear-leg crane barge capable of lifting over 1,800 tons, built to help lift bridge sections during the replacement of the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2009-2010. The barge, nicknamed the “Left Coast Lifter,” has been towed to the right coast, err.. the East Coast to help dismantle the old Tappan Zee bridge over the Hudson River, north of New York City and then help to rebuild the new bridge.
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I’m not a Civil engineer, but my hunch is that the barge will be engaged in building the new bridge before the old one is torn down.
I think it’s the Chris Christie influence. Knock the old one down first and create traffic jams.