Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office has begun to specify a slew of major infrastructure projects statewide that will receive funding under the newly created NY Works Task Force economic development program. The program, which the governor calls the “centerpiece” of his $132.6-billion budget that passed last week, includes an investment of $1.2-billion to accelerate road and bridge improvements.
The program will accelerate state investments in improvements to hundreds of miles of roads, bridges as well as parks and historic sites. Investments announced the week of April 2 include $460 million to replace New York City’s Kosciuszko Bridge; $145 million for bridge deck and steel replacement of the Albany-Rensselaer I-90 bridge over the Hudson River; $1.5 million for deck replacement of the Syracuse I-81 bridge over East Calthrop Avenue; and $16 million for parapet work at 16 locations that span nine bridges on Long Island’s Meadowbrook and Southern State Parkways.