In early 2009, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began work on the new “south bathtub” between Liberty and Cedar, and West and Greenwich Streets. The bathtub allows for mass excavation and construction of the new Vehicular Security Center (VSC) entrance and ramp into the main World Trade Center (WTC) site.
Work includes digging a trench on the west and south sides of the bathtub, where several steel rebar cages will be inserted before the slurry, a type of high-strength concrete, will be poured to create the slurry wall panels. On the bathtub’s east side, piles will be installed to form a secant wall. The existing west bathtub slurry wall along Liberty Street will be used as the south bathtub’s north wall. Once in place, the new bathtub perimeter walls will allow for excavation and VSC construction starting approximately 2010.
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TRAFFIC NOTICE: The Port Authority's is planning Liberty Street walkway closures on the weekends of October 30/31 and November 7/8 for the installation of slurry wall foundation panels on Washington Street.
Installation of slurry-wall panels along West Street are complete; installation continues along Cedar and Washington Streets (inside the WTC fence). It continues through late 2009.
A temporary demising wall is being built on the east side of the South Bathtub for crews to continue excavation while 130 Liberty deconstruction continues
Preliminary design research is taking place for the future Liberty Street Park
For more information about the World Trade Center site’s redevelopment and to contact the Port Authority, please visit its website at www.pathrestoration.com.
Starting in fall 2009, the state Department of Transportation (SDOT) will reconfigure the Liberty Street Bridge so the Port Authority can excavate the new “south bathtub.” SDOT will remove the eastern-extension tube that lands at Washington Street, and create a new extension, that sends pedestrians to a new stairway and elevator to the south, at Cedar and West Streets.
The bridge modification allows Port Authority crews to complete slurry wall installation in the south bathtub. The temporarily reconfigured Liberty Street Bridge will open in approximately January 2010. It will be modified again in several years, once the Port has built the proposed park that will occupy the area between Liberty and Cedar Streets.
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