Working Day & Night at Soissons Dock
Jan 12, 2012 8:28 pm
The only vehicular ferry landing on Governors Island is undergoing a dramatic rehabilitation. The transfer bridges (the moving ramps which allows vehicles and pedestrians to embark and disembark the G.I. ferry) are being rehabilitated along with the piles which support them. In addition, the fender racks, those large wooden arms reaching out into the harbor, are being rehabilitated with help from funding from the Federal Transportation Administration (FTA). Island operations continue throughout the project since there are two slips and rehabilitation will take place on one side and then the other. In order to catch the right tides for barge work and keep us moving, workers have been at it even on chilly winter evenings. [caption id=“attachment_4876” align=“aligncenter” width=“300” caption=“Barge Crane in the West Slip”]
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