New York's Busiest Bridge | The George Washington Bridge

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  @ITSHISTORY · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @marblox9300 · 2 years ago

  As a Chicago guy - I once crossed the GW Bridge at night about 10:00 PM and looked in amazement at Manhattan and the lit up Empire State Building. It is amazing how this can hold up all those lanes of roadway and the hundreds of heavy vehicles on the bridge at any given time. Truly amazing engineering.

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  @masterskrain2630 · 2 years ago

  The worst thing about the GW bridge is having to use the Cross-Bronx Expressway, A.K.A. The Pothole Festival, to get to it.

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  @thomasfreeman7770 · 2 years ago

  This bridge has special meaning to me. Being raised about 4 miles away in NJ. My grandfather on my father’s side was a blasting and sandhog worker. He worked drilling and blasting the NJ cable anchorage into the solid rock of the palisades in Ft Lee several hundred feet down. The Manhattan side is anchored by a huge monolithic pour of concrete. Being held in place by only massive weight. My grandfather also worked on the Holland tunnel and the Catskill water aqueduct.

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  @madmanmark1970 · 1 year ago

  It&apos;s my favorite bridge in NYC. I grew up in the Bronx, and my family and I would visit family in New Jersey, and even if we didn&apos;t visit family, we&apos;d go shopping at Alexander&apos;s for clothes because NJ had no tax on items from my recollection as a boy. I always preferred going on the lower deck with my family. Mainly because every other bridge in the city only had one deck. Whitestone,Throggs Neck, some of those major toll bridges. Seeing this video brought back my childhood memories. Thanks for doing this.

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  @ETPhoto · 1 year ago

  On August 8, 1980 my uncle, who was a NYPD officer, saved the bridge by stopping a propane leak from a truck that had crashed. &nbsp;It was the first ever complete closing of the GWB. &nbsp;My uncle stopped the leak with a plumbing part he sent his partner to get at a plumbing supply. &nbsp;It was a $4 rubber plug used to test plumbing, he was a plumber as well. &nbsp;My whole family are plumbers and we always tell that story when uncle Donald is around, he truly saved the bridge that day. &nbsp;True story, look it up.

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  @CellaDragon · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVRdR4EKSY&amp;t=662">11:02</a> I spy with my little eye San Francisco &amp; not New York 😏

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  @4formsofMATTer · 2 years ago

  it&apos;s actually the world&apos;s busiest bridge!

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  @bluecranium · 2 years ago

  What about the four 32-STORY HIGH RISE APARTMENT BUILDINGS? Failed to mention the fact that Cross Bronx Expressway leading up to the George Washington Bridge on the NY side had 4 high rises BUILT OVER &amp; STRADDLING the 8 or more lanes of approach traffic in 1963 (like 1365 Saint Nicholas Ave) 😮- you literally drive THROUGH the framework of those buildings. Countless times concrete panels have fallen onto cars or have been struck by trucks in the past. An absolute nightmare in gridlock traffic knowing that 32 floors could collapse onto the road surface beneath.

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  @8avexp · 2 years ago

  That red lighthouse at the base of the bridge on the New York side was supposed to be torn down when the bridge was built. &nbsp;A lady launched a grassroots campaign to save that lighthouse and when it was, she wrote a children&apos;s book titled, &quot;The Little Red Lighthouse.&quot; &nbsp;The bridge was referred to as, &quot;the big gray bridge.&quot;

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  @tonyringtail · 2 years ago

  i&apos;ve crossed this bridge millions of times in my life... and every time I curse the insane traffic on the cross bronx expressway just past the bridge... between the insane jog the lanes do under the apartments, to the fact there aqre even apartments built above the roadway makes me want to know who the insane engineers were to think of this.

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  @TysonIke · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVRdR4EKSY&amp;t=666">11:06</a> that’s the SF bay bridge

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