Bridge on the River Hudson: $3B or More

ALBANY-The New York State Thruway Authority has released three design proposals for the project to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge, the heavily trafficked three-mile span that connects New York City’s northern suburbs on either side of the Hudson River. A vote to select the winning bid is expected to take place at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the authority’s board of directors on Dec. 17; however, a selection committee has already given a non-binding recommendation of the least expensive of the proposals, which would cost about $3.1 billion to build.

The other two proposals range as high as $4.1 billion. Any of the three, however, would represents a savings on the Cuomo administration’s earlier estimates—at least $5 billion and as high as $6 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal—of the cost to replace the 57-year-old span between Tarrytown and Nyack, NY.