A 140-foot climb up eight flights of scaffolding gets students to the bridge deck of the Goethals Bridge.
There’s plenty to see up here. Still under construction, the Goethals Bridge Project — a replacement for the original bridge, which opened in 1928 — will have 144 steel cables up to 400 feet long and 13 inches in diameter. Those cables will connect the Goethals’ 272-foot tall towers.
Kyle Conrad, Civil Engineering class of 2019, explains why he enjoyed visiting the Goethals project and hopes to incorporate similar structural designs into the energy field on oil rigs after he graduates.
