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In yet another headache for New York City's beleagued commuters, the city plans to close two lanes on the already crowded Manhattan Bridge for three years, beginning this spring, while it undertakes the largest bridge repair job in its history.
"There'll be delays," Joseph DePlasco, spokesman for the Department of Transportation, said of the repairs that will close the upper level until 1995. "We have to move forward with this work. The bridge opened in 1909 and hasn't been well taken care of since then."
Mayor David N. Dinkins announced yesterday that the low bidder for...