Future
In 2004 the New York State Department of Transportation began studies on the Fire Island Inlet span due to flaws in the cement used for its construction. Currently repairs are being undertaken to extend the life and safety of the bridge. These repairs—groundbreaking for a new bridge—were expected to be finished in 2010. It is assumed that the new bridge will be built to the west of the current structure; the new span will be four lanes, two southbound and two northbound. The new bridge is expected to retain the look of the old one, for aesthetic conformity with the other bridges of the bay. After the new bridge is constructed, the original span will be removed. Implosion is not thought to be the best method of deconstruction. Instead it is more likely the bridge will be disassembled and removed by crane.
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Famous quotes containing the word future:
“Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.”
—Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749–1827)
“It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)