How much does the walkway over the hudson spam over a river?
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – A towering railroad bridge over the Hudson River is about to get new life as a sky-high pedestrian walkway. Construction workers on Friday put the last slab in place on the rebuilt deck of the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge, which connects that small city to the hamlet of Highland in Ulster County. When it opens to the public on Oct. 2, the bridge will form a spectacular connection between recreational trails on either side of the river. The pedestrian deck is 1.25 miles long and 212 feet high. Refitting the bridge for bikes, joggers and walkers cost about $39 million. Sources: http://www.lohud.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – A towering railroad bridge over the Hudson River is about to get new life as a sky-high pedestrian walkway. Construction workers on Friday put the last slab in place on the rebuilt deck of the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge, which connects that small city to the hamlet of Highland in Ulster County. When it opens to the public on Oct. 2, the bridge will form a spectacular connection between recreational trails on either side of the river. The pedestrian deck is 1.25 miles long and 212 feet high. Refitting the bridge for bikes, joggers and walkers cost about $39 million.
The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, located on Kill van Kull and the western shore of Upper New York Bay and the Hudson River, is an ongoing and incomplete project inspired by a New Jersey state-mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to the George Washington Bridge with an urban linear park and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water’s edge. There is no projected date for its completion, though large segments have been built or incorporated into it since its inception. The southern end in Bayonne may eventually connect to the Hackensack RiverWalk, another proposed walkway along Newark Bay and Hackensack River on the west side of the Hudson County peninsula. Its northern end is in Palisades Interstate Park, allowing users to continue along the river bank and alpine paths to the New Jersey/New York state line and beyond. (A connection to the Long Path, a 330-mile (530 km) hiking trail with terminus near Albany, is feasible.) As of 2007, elev
