GOETHALS BRIDGE REPLACEMENT

Elizabeth, New Jersey

This Public-Private Partnership (P3) project for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is part of a 40-year, $1.5 billion design-build-finance-operate-maintain contract. The existing bridge, which was built in 1928, was the Port Authority’s first bi-state project and is named after Major General George Goethals; a builder of the Panama Canal and first consulting engineer for the Port. The new 1.4-mile long twin structures, with 900-foot long main spans over the Arthur Kill tidal strait, carry three lanes of traffic each way between Staten Island, New York, and the City of Elizabeth, New Jersey. This project provides pedestrian and bicycle access for a safe, scenic passageway and contains state-of-the-art smart bridge technology for improved incident response times. The twin bridges are also designed to allow for mass-transit lanes between the bridges when needed in the future.