Eight Years To Build, 25 Years To Renovate

Possible campaign slogan — Michael Bloomberg gets the job done:

Twenty-five years of repairs on the Manhattan Bridge are finally coming to an end, city officials announced yesterday.

The span’s lower deck with reopen on Oct. 1, roughly two weeks earlier than the scheduled completion date.

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Just four lanes on the bridge have been open in recent years. In January, the seventh and final lane will reopen. Current repairs on the bridge, which opened in 1909, date to 1982 and have totaled $829 million, according to transportation officials. The bridge’s original cost was $31 million.

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