Rochester Bridge Named in DOT Report
 

The New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) says all of New York's 49 deck truss bridges are safe for travel.

But it said 20, including one in Rochester are in need of repairs.

The DOT gave Rochester's Smith Street Bridge, also known as the Bausch Memorial Bridge, six yellow flags and five safety flags.

The DOT said the bridge received six yellow flags for, “two corroded bearings, a loose anchor bolt that helps keep a sidewalk support beam on top of a floor beam, a rusted vertical steel component of a truss, rusted beams next to a snow shute, corrosion at four locations on the ends of several beams and minor corrosion at five locations on sidewalk supports.”

The bridge received five safety flags for a tripping hazard on a sidewalk, exposed electrical wires at two locations, a loose piece of curbing and corrosion on a catwalk used only by maintenance and inspection personnel.

City engineer John Standinger said a $9.6 million dollar bridge rehabilitation project (Crane-Hogan is the General Contractor) addresses all of the deficiencies identified in the report.

Standinger said the Smith Street Bridge Project got underway in October.

"There is extensive work behind the scenes that the city does for the bridge program in itself and we identify a lot of those issues way ahead of any inspections that the state or any parties would do," Standinger said.

Governor Eliot Spitzer ordered the blanket bridge inspections after a deck truss bridge collapsed in Minneapolis killing 13 people in August.

The DOT only gave one red flag to a bridge in Popolopen Creek in Highlands, Orange County.

The DOT says the critical structural problem has been corrected.

Erica Bryant
Staff writer

(November 6, 2007) — IRONDEQUOIT — Bicyclists, skaters, joggers and pedestrians officially have a smoother path from the Irondequoit Bay Outlet Marine Park to the O'Rorke Bridge.

Though many people have already started using the Irondequoit Lakeside Multi-Use Trail, local leaders declared the new path officially open at a ceremony on Monday.

The 4.7-mile stretch includes a 13-foot-wide asphalt trail through the northern part of Durand-Eastman Park along Lake Ontario and a timber bridge over Tamarack Swamp.

The project, which has been under construction for the past year, received $1.2 million in federal funding and $705,000 from Monroe County. Irondequoit contributed $460,000 in in-kind services for trail construction.

Irondequoit residents such as Ann Burns are pleased. "It was very well planned and executed," said Burns, who has biked, walked and run on the trail. "There are people on it from sunrise to sunset."

EBRYANT@DemocratandChronicle.com

(November 1, 2007) The Rochester Top 100, now in its 21st year, ranks privately held companies based on three most recent years of revenue growth. Companies must have at least $1 million in revenue for each of those years, and rankings take into account both dollar and percentage growth.

Crane-Hogan Structural Systems, Inc. earns a Top 100 ranking  (33) for the 13th time in the last 16 years .

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