For both the Thruway Authority and the construction crews, summer is a good season.

How much the Thruway Authority needs to raise by 1996?

Just four days after it went up, the sign was taken down by the Thruway Authority for lack of a proper permit.

"We wanted the Thruway Authority to become the economic catalyst for the upstate region."

But now, with the Thruway Authority considering building a new $2.5 billion bridge, there has been more interest.

The chairman of the Thruway Authority is paid $25,000 a year.

But under their contracts with the Thruway Authority, the businesses must stay open 24 hours a day.

Officials at the Thruway Authority say they will not know for sure until a complete structural analysis is performed on the bridge.

He declined to give details, saying only that "it has nothing to do with the activities of the Thruway Authority."

In his letter, he detailed some relatively small steps the Thruway Authority had taken to help, but there is no mention of money.