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July Fourth Treat: No Disruptive Construction Over the Long Weekend

  • This article was written by Lanning Taliaferro and Dina Sciortino

Construction projects will be suspended on the New York State Thruway throughout the Fourth of July holiday period, the Thruway Authority announced today.

 “I urge all New Yorkers on the road during the holiday period to make safety a part of their travel plans,’’ Thruway Authority Executive Director Thomas J. Madison said in a written statement. “The Thruway Authority will help ease the way for motorists by suspending construction over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.”

Thruway officials are following Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "Drivers First" policy declaration in September 2012 that motorists shouldn't always have to adjust to construction.  

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Here's where it will affect us locally:

Construction will be suspended from noon July 3 through 10 a.m. July 8 on the following roadways:

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  • Exit 1 (Yonkers) to Exit 18 (New Paltz) on the Thruway (I-87)
  • Exit 8B (Orchard Beach-City Island) to Exit 22 (Port Chester-Midland Avenue) on the New England Thruway (I-95)
  • Exit 1 (NY Route 119 and Saw Mill River Parkway) to Exit 12 (I-95) on the Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287)

This doesn't mean no construction at all, just that contractors are limited to work that will be neither disruptive nor a distraction. 

Though Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC won’t work on July 4, preconstruction activity will continue throughout the week without lane closures.

Here is a list of ongoing work:

  • Cleaning and preparation for future construction of the Thruway’s Rockland Bulkhead
  • Construction of the temporary Westchester work trestle, which includes pile driving operations that will occur weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (except for July 4)
  • Survey inspections on existing bridge 
  • Rockland environmental monitor installations continue
  • Geotechnical land borings
  • Mobilization at the Exit 10 staging area
  • Support for river-based work from the Rockland shoreline
  • Limited geotechnical analysis boring operations behind barriers from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

 


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