Plan your travel during bridge closing

Scheduled for brief closure.

One of the six bridges that connect Troy to the west bank of the Hudson River will be out of commission for a while next Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Green Island Bridge, seen above, will be closed to traffic from 7 p.m. Tuesday until 5 a.m. Wednesday, according to an announcement by the Village of Green Island.

The closure is to allow bridge inspectors to conduct regular examinations of the bridge structure. Not a bad idea even though the present bridge isn't all that old. Its predecessor collapsed into the river 47 years ago tomorrow -- March 15, 1977. It took 4½ years before the current bridge opened, on September 12, 1981.

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