European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Worlds longest Span opens tomorrow new Ridge in town stripes by Gerald up staff r stands ready and waiting at 1u gently curving cables of steel Stretc blog across the Mil wide Nar Row Between Staten Bland and Brook it Tandi with dignity and Beauty and the painters now primp and fuss for the big tomorrow it will make its the dignitaries will gather to snip the ribbon and the bands will a nag will go planes will Circle and a Small sea Complete with four destroyers and a will toot their the worlds greatest the i32s million verrazano will then be open to the Public after nearly five years of at approximately 3 after much of the fanfare has the first of an estimated lit million vehicles during the first full year of operation will Rou by 1981only the six Lane up per deck of the giant double Decker be used Bridge is expected to reach its traffic carrying capacity of 41 what these vehicles will Cross m cents per will be a Bridge of As Robert chair Man of the trl Borough Bridge and Tun Nel which built the said during the Early stage of con it size and weight arc the criteria for As Bridge builders say they then the verrazano is surely the greatest of it boasts the Long est suspension Span of any Bridge in the feet from Tower to Tower feet longer than the Span of the Golden so High is the Span of the verrazano that the biggest and highest ship in the the navys nuclear packed car Rier which measures 200 feet from water level to its Topmost can Clear the Bridge by 98 the verrazano has an Overall length of nearly three including immedi ate there Are other Bridges that Are longer when approaches Are but no other Bridge can Dis play so Many vital Miles of Pencil thin 13 of an Inch galvanized steel wire in four 36inch diam Eter cables tons of steel in the ramps and approaches and cubic Yards of Concrete on the Bridge As far Back As ism there have been plans to build a fixed crossing Over the Narrows through which All Large oceangoing vessels entering or leaving upper new York Bay must for Many incoming the Bridge will be the first great sight of the coun six Miles South of the statue of in a project was begun and abandoned to build railway Tun Nel that would carry freight and Passen Gers Between the two new York to Over the years the demand for a Bridge most of it to provide a bypass route for traffic which does not need to go through congested manhat it is estimated that Only 33 per cent of the traffic Over the Bridge will be for Staten Island the remaining 17 per cent will be through traffic vehicles from South and Central new Jersey to Points in Southern the Borough of Queens and Nassau by using the the Staten Island expressway and the 31year old Goethals motorists will be Able to go easily to the new Jersey bypassing Jersey bound motorists from Long Island will save As much As 10 Miles and 30 minutes by using the Bridge route instead of using the Lincoln or Holland it was in 1514 that Giovanni a Verra an italian navigator sailing for Francis i of anchored his car avel la Dauphine off Staten and in the process beat Henry Hudson to the Hudson River by is representatives of the italian and French governments will be there among the dignitaries help in the ribbon cutting ceremony and be in the first official group to make the the first ones not counting were three Young students from a College in new York who scrambled across one of the cat walks last they ended up in the arms of the police on the Staten Island including Robert Moses and a fire department Nook and ladder have crossed under Friend Lier on an apprentice steel worker fell to his death fron one of the one of three fatalities in building the the other As the last dabs of battleship Grey were being applied to the a woman on the Brooklyn Side was overheard complaining about the id like to have seen it in something she a Bright red would have made it attractive or Orange would have been but its a Beautiful she Span world on the Bridge in the world drawing the stars and stripes november 1964 11
