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Award<\/strong>: Bronx River Parkway Bridge<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The New York DOT has picked Whitestone, New York-based E.E. Cruz, a subsidiary of Flatiron, to construct the $137.7 million span that will replace the Bronx River Parkway Bridge, according to a Flatiron press release shared with Construction Dive.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The project aims to improve safety on the crossing and mobility in the Bronx more broadly. The span is showing its age \u2014 in July, a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>bridge girder buckled<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> while a New York DOT maintenance crew was conducting urgent structural repairs, which snarled travel for rail passengers below, according to CBS.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The existing span goes over Amtrak and CSX tracks and will require collaboration with those entities as well as MTA and its ongoing <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Penn Station Access project<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In addition to building a new bridge, the bid-build contract entails improving roadway alignment,\u00a0building standard 12-foot travel lanes, adding shoulders and constructing an exit ramp to East 177th Street. The contractor plans to use a custom lifting system to minimize traffic and railway disruption during construction.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe innovative construction solution proposed by E.E. Cruz includes using a custom-engineered lifting system versus a conventional crane setup to build the mainline of the bridge,\u201d according to the release. \u201cDuring construction, this should reduce Bronx River Parkway lane closures as well as Amtrak\/CSX general track outages that are required for demolition and construction of the new structure.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Construction is scheduled to begin this month and is expected to be complete in August 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Value<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>: $138 million<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Location<\/span><\/span><\/strong>: The Bronx, New York<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Client<\/span><\/span><\/strong>: New York DOT<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n