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The George Clinton Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge is a continuous under-deck truss toll bridge that carries NY 199 across the Hudson River in New York State north of the City of Kingston and the hamlet of Rhinecliff. It was opened to traffic on February 2, 1957, as a two-lane (one in each direction) bridge, although it was not actually complete.
Temporary lane closures for road and bridge construction projects on state highways are ... Saugerties/Woodstock/state Route 32 and Exit 19 - Kingston/state Route 28 - Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge. ...
The Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge. Initial plans for the Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge, a structure that replaced the ferry between the two locations, called for the bridge to span the Hudson River between downtown Kingston (at Kingston Point) and the village of Rhinebeck along a corridor similar to that of NY 308. Due to political and economic ...
New York State Route 199 (NY 199) is a 30.91-mile-long (49.74 km) state highway located in the Hudson Valley of the U.S. state of New York.Its western end is in Ulster County, where it begins as the continuation of the short U.S. Route 209 freeway east of its interchange with U.S. Route 9W; after crossing the Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge over the Hudson River the rest of the highway crosses ...
Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge: NY 199: Ulster – Rhinebeck: 1957 $1.50 (eastbound) Rip Van Winkle Bridge ... Wooden foot bridge just east of Henderson Lake outlet
[10]: 12 Kingston ferry service ended in January 1957, shortly before the opening of the Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge. [34] The railroad sold the Shatzell Avenue footbridge to the town in 1958. [4] [35] The New York Central began removing tracks from the main line in the 1950s as traffic decreased. Only three tracks were in use at Rhinecliff by ...
In 1951 they were able to authorize test boring in the riverbed to see if a bridge was feasible. It was, but their counterparts further up the river got legislation passed that prohibited any construction of the Newburgh Bay bridge until the Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge was completed. By the early 1950s the road plan had changed.
Two-way traffic will resume by this weekend, but the opening of temporary lanes will not totally fix the gridlock.