The Mario Cuomo Bridge, which replaced the rickety and heavily-trafficked Tappan Zee Bridge in 2017, has “structural safety” issues that could lead to its collapse, an Albany Times Union investigation found. Cuomo named the bridge after his father, who was New York’s governor from 1983 to 1994.
Snapping bolts that are supposed to pin down the bridge’s suspension cables were the primary issue, the Times Union reported.
The eight-month investigation also found that “Tappan Zee Constructors, the private corporation building the bridge for the state authority, may have committed fraud by concealing the fact that large numbers of bolts had been breaking due to either improper installation techniques, manufacturing defects, or both.”
Gee Wally, all they really had to do is replace the word Tappan with Chimpan…
… or Chimp &
It will be interesting to see if brutha Chris will be able to hold down an anchor job at the Clownfart News Network (where all the “news” smells funny) or if he will simply be relegated to coffee duty when the over-sexed Granny-Killer goes down!
Hah…weak bolts, which may have been a factor in the Titanic sinking.
Cuomo Bridge falling down…how freaking appropriate! If he was a real man….ah, forget it…he’s not.
And where did the bolts come from?
I bet china.
Cuomo doesn’t seem to have such a great record, I wonder what other secrets he might have hidden away via decree???
Everything connected to Cuomo seems to have safety issues involved.
Wait, the Tappan Zee is gone?? So goes another piece of my childhood.
I’ll be starting a petition to rename the bridge back to the Tappan Zee once King Andy falls on his head. Tappan’s were a native tribe (aka. Native Americans) and Zee is Dutch for sea.
No one needs a Cuomo!
@Sturge and @TRF – we STILL call it the Tappan Zee – a Dutch and Indian name… replaced by a man who would be King.
Holy shit!
Hard to believe that the Tappan Zee was a better bridge when it was sitting on wooden piers.
That’s progress, I guess…….
Now, if it’ll collapse with all cuomos on it….