A $5.2 Billion Bridge to Somewhere

Photo illustration by Emily Keegin and Tracy Ma; Photos: Alamy(3); Brett Weinstein(1); Getty Images(1)

Just 13 days after winning the 2010 election, New York Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo put on a hard hat, boarded a tugboat on the Hudson River, and took a tour beneath the Tappan Zee Bridge. “Should you continue to repair this bridge or replace the bridge?” he said once back on shore. “The answer is not going to be more money, more money, more money.”