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Uniting The Bronx, Manhattan and Queens by means of an enormous steel and concrete Y, the Triborough Bridge represents the biggest single thing New York City has so far got out of the New Deal. The Federal Government lent $35,000,000, gave $9,200,000 towards its construction. Largely because of this heavy stake, President Roosevelt went to New York City last week to dedicate the new bridge. Chief engineer of the Triborough was Othmar Hermann Ammann, who swung the Port of New York Authority's huge George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River. When his turn came...
Prime mover for the Triborough Bridge was Robert Moses. In 1933 as New York State Emergency Public Works Commission Chairman, he organized the Triborough Bridge Authority, begged and borrowed the New Deal millions. Made New York City's Fusion Park Commissioner in 1934, he worked out the essential chain of highways tying the bridge into Long Island's great parkway system and East Side Manhattan traffic. The heart of the Triborough begins with a suspension bridge across Hell Gate to Wards Island, whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split...
...more interest to motorists than the bridges themselves was the system of traffic control devised by Engineer Ammann and aides. By means of carefully arranged approaches and cunning underpasses on Randalls Island, all crossovers were completely eliminated from the Triborough, with the result that not a single traffic light is needed. Simple though the system looked on paper, it proved complicated enough the first day to send President Roosevelt's police escort awry...
...hours 50.000 more crossed. Motorists paid 25? toll per car, trucks up to 75?. Passenger cars were compelled to travel 40 m.p.h. across the bridge. Fifteen minutes sufficed to cover distances which heretofore required well over an hour through narrow streets and over older bridges. Immediate result of the Triborough's opening: a 30% drop in traffic across the older East River bridges between Manhattan and Long Island on which no toll is charged...
...Olympic tryouts the year's most brilliant track meet and to hold it in a brand new stadium was the commendable plan of Chairman William J. Bingham of the Olympic Track & Field Committee. Last March he asked New York City's Park Commissioner Moses when the new Triborough Bridge - and Randalls Island Stadium would be ready. Commissioner Moses promised they would be ready in time for the Olympic tryouts. Last week, Commissioner Moses kept his promise by opening the bridge, which was the only way to reach the stadium, one hour before the meet was scheduled to start...