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Most E-ZPass lanes are converted manual toll lanes and must have fairly low speed limits for safety reasons (between 5 and 15 miles per hour (8 and 24 km/h) is typical), so that E-ZPass vehicles can merge safely with vehicles that stopped to pay a cash toll and, in some cases, to allow toll workers to safely cross the E-ZPass lanes to reach booths accepting cash payments.
Manhattan Bridge (one pair of tracks on each of the north and south sides of the bridge) Queens branches: IND Queens Boulevard Line east of Queens Plaza; IND Rockaway Line north of Jamaica Bay; Archer Avenue Lines from Sutphin Boulevard and east (two levels of paired tracks: all IND on one, all BMT on the other, without connections between lines)
The fixed bridge, carrying six lanes of Cross Bay Boulevard, is named for the late Joseph P. Addabbo, who represented the area in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1986. [ 3 ] The bridge was built alongside the original North Channel Bridge (1925-1993) as a replacement; a lack of maintenance on the old bascule bridge had ...
At Cross Bay Boulevard, a flying junction would let the local tracks cross over to the inside and the express tracks cross over to the outside. The layout would be similar to that of Manhattan's 168th Street station. East of Cross Bay Boulevard, another flying junction would bring a two-track branch over the line to a pair of portals north of ...
(legal name, not used publicly: MTA Construction and Development Company) [58] MTA Regional Bus Operations (legal name, not used publicly; but rather trading as): MTA Bus (legal name, sometimes used publicly: MTA Bus Company) [57] MTA New York City Bus [57] First Mutual Transportation Assurance Company (legal name, not used publicly; no public ...
The MTA tried to combat this by creating new structures and using other methods to reduce dust inhalation. [180] The MTA prepared a report that said in the 86th Street station area "all monitored concentrations were below the established benchmark levels". [181] The New York Daily News alleged that the subway project was very unsafe. For ...
[8] [9] The bridge was 3 miles (4.8 km) long and spanned the Hudson at its second-widest point. It was the longest bridge in New York State, at a length of 16,013 feet (4,881 m) including approaches. [10] Built immediately after the Korean War, the bridge had a low construction budget of only $81 million and a designed life-span of only 50 ...
Hangzhou Bay Bridge (simplified Chinese: 杭州湾大桥; traditional Chinese: 杭州灣大橋; pinyin: Hángzhōu Wān Dàqiáo; Wu: Han-tseu-uae du-jiau) is a long 35.7 km (22.2 mi) highway bridge with two separate cable-stayed portions, built across the mouth of Hangzhou Bay in the eastern coastal region of China.