More than 100 Tappan Zee Bridge deck panels delivered to counties upstate

Matt Coyne | Rockland/Westchester Journal News

Show Caption Hide Caption Video: Tappan Zee Bridge taken apart The center span of the Tappan Zee Bridge is taken apart one beam at a time, then the beams are lowered onto a barge.

All 135 deck panels from the old Tappan Zee Bridge have been delivered to their new upstate homes.

The deck panels, over which drivers used to pass and each installed within the last 10 years, were sold by the Thruway Authority to various municipalities and the state Department of Transportation for $1 to help shore up infrastructure across the state.

"Strategically repurposing and reimagining the use for these materials will save taxpayers millions of dollars and benefit local communities for decades to come," Thruway Authority Active Executive Director Matthew Driscoll said in a statement.

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The plan to sell off the deck panels was approved by the Thruway Authority last summer, ahead of the new, $3.9 billion Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge's opening.

With all traffic taken off the Tappan Zee Bridge that October, crews moved on to demolishing the old bridge.

The deck panels were taken off the old bridge with cranes and placed onto barges. The pieces being repurposed were floated up to the Port of Coeymans outside of Albany, where they were loaded onto trucks and transported to local maintenance yards.

Some of the steel sections of the old bridge have been sunk off the coast of Long Island to make artificial reefs.

The state Department of Transportation and Monroe County received the most, with 37 and 31 respectively.

The remaining deck panels will make their way to:

Wyoming County: 15

Orange County: 14

Essex County: 12

Chemung County: 6

Steuen County: 6

Livingston County: 6

Allegany County: 6

Town of Montgomery: 2

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