Word: thruway
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...galleries' usual murmur of quiet commentary hushed to tense whispers. The gaggle of interns in the corner "ladies' gallery" asked each other "What's the score?" "Was that number 30 or 31?" Meanwhile, on the New York State Thruway, a bridge waited to collapse...
About 25,000 vehicles cross the bridge in a typical 24-hour period of heavy traffic, a thruway official said. The thruway runs from the New York City area north to Albany, then west to the Buffalo area...
Helicopters continued searching for missing vehicles from the accident Sunday, in which up to 400 feet of the New York State Thruway collapsed about 35 miles west of Albany...
...collapse, which forced the closing of about 25 miles of the Thruway, is expected to have a major impact on the area's trucking industry. Drivers will have to take detours of up to 20 miles on secondary roads through rolling countryside...
...Thruway spokesman Raymond Makay said replacement of a bridge usually takes two years but that authorities would try to speed up work on a new span...