https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/08/19/139749870/a-big-bridge-in-the-wrong-place#:~:text=No%20one%20seemed%20to%20know,three%2Dmile%2Dlong%20bridge. QT:{{” You would never look at a map of the Hudson River, point to the spot where the Tappan Zee Bridge is, and say, “Put the bridge here!”… The Port Authority — the body that proposed putting the bridge further south — had a monopoly over all bridges built in a 25-mile radius around the Statue of Liberty.
If the bridge had been built just a bit south of its current location — that is, if it had been built across a narrower stretch of the river — it would have been in the territory that belonged to the Port Authority. “}}
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