So wait they want to replace a bridge they just spent billions on repairing to make last another decade and expanding .

A bridge STILL undergoing an expansion originally approved to handle additional tariffic from the skyway project - which itself was delayed , which was closed , fixed and reopened all before the improvements to handle the extra traffic from it were finished on the NBB. (Newark bay bridge) . Ya i know they found " Structural" problems during it that had to "fix"

But no penalty for being years behind either !