Raising the approaches While the bridge is closed to traffic, a mobile crane will lift new floor beams into place above the existing roadway and attach them to the arch with suspender ropes.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The new generation of "super" containerships will be able to sail under a raised Bayonne Bridge six months earlier than expected, top Port Authority officials announced ...

The Bayonne Bridge “Raise the Roadway” is being fast-tracked. Port Authority Chairman David Samson announced yesterday the agency has cut six months off the project’s projected completion ...

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the $1.3 billion project to raise the Bayonne Bridge will be delayed more than a year.

The “Raise the Roadway” project began in 2013 when the deck of the bridge was raised from 151 feet to 215 feet to accommodate larger ships into the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island and Bayonne.

The “Raise the Roadway” project began in 2013 when the deck of the bridge was raised from 151 feet to 215 feet to accommodate larger ships into the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island and Bayonne.

News Lobbying group: Bayonne Bridge raising could create 36K new jobs, add $4M in tax revenue Published: May. 24, 2012, 12:00 p.m.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Bayonne Bridge Navigational Clearance Project, also known as “Raise the Roadway," has been recognized as one of the country’s most signifcant feats of engineering ...

It’s a safe bet that most Americans have never heard of the Kill van Kull—the tidal strait that separates New York’s Staten Island from New Jersey—or of the Bayonne Bridge, the structure that spans it ...

A $1.6 billion project to raise the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge, allowing a larger class of container ship to call at the region’s ports, will be completed six months ahead of schedule.