diningcar Similar to the Los Angeles and bay area freeway reconstruction after the earthquakes. Amazing what can be done when the need is significant; and when compared to the delays that can be imposed when certain groups or bureaucrats try to justify whatever their interests may be.
Similar to the Los Angeles and bay area freeway reconstruction after the earthquakes. Amazing what can be done when the need is significant; and when compared to the delays that can be imposed when certain groups or bureaucrats try to justify whatever their interests may be.
Generally, new construction can take years to get accomplished, not to mention the way regulators, and their demands, play escaladio with the costs. Concrete technology is amazing; Curing time can be 'adjusted' by addition of ice, and/or chemicals to achieve cured strengths, as needed to achieve the use needed.
Southbound lane opened Friday sometime. Northbound opened Friday 1900.
blue streak 1 Latest from GA DOT. I-85 will be opened May 15th. Contractor has a $3.0M bonus if complete by then.
Latest from GA DOT. I-85 will be opened May 15th. Contractor has a $3.0M bonus if complete by then.
I think I opined that the biggest hold-up would be concrete curing time. I believe someone posted that they were using a faster curing concrete, so this sounds reasonable.
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BaltACDThose get paid no matter how involved or simple the permitting process it. The US has the best form of government money can buy. It is bought and sold every day at every level of government
Norm
Norm48327 BaltACD Balt, You forgot to include the payoffs to corrupt politicians.
BaltACD
Balt,
You forgot to include the payoffs to corrupt politicians.
Those get paid no matter how involved or simple the permitting process it.
The US has the best form of government money can buy. It is bought and sold every day at every level of government.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACDNormally one doesn't have to get enviornmental impact surveys and reports to perform replacement projects - now if they were going to add 4 to 6 lanes to the existing structure, that would be 4 to 5 years to get those reports and then have the public hearings about the reports. Add Quote to your Post
tree68 rdamon Makes one wonder why such projects often seem to take 4.5 years...
rdamon
Makes one wonder why such projects often seem to take 4.5 years...
Normally one doesn't have to get enviornmental impact surveys and reports to perform replacement projects - now if they were going to add 4 to 6 lanes to the existing structure, that would be 4 to 5 years to get those reports and then have the public hearings about the reports.
rdamonAmazing work in 4.5 weeks.
Amazing indeed. No grass growing under that project. They are hustling right along.
It was announced yesterday that they are pouring the deck on the last two spans and that they are looking at a May 25th opening day.
Amazing work in 4.5 weeks.
Concrete being pumped onto the first span ...
https://app.oxblue.com/open/GADOT/I85BridgeRebuild
rdamon We did have this little incident this morning ... Now we have a Braves game and a thunderstorm ... :) I next we will have Locusts!!
We did have this little incident this morning ...
Now we have a Braves game and a thunderstorm ... :)
I next we will have Locusts!!
If it starts raining frogs, head for the hills.
I grew up in an outlying neighborhood of Chicago in the 1950's-1960's and our street was a bit better than gravel. No curbs and a layer of asphalt covering about two-thirds of the roadway. It was reasonably smooth but had a fair amount of patches.
Never Fear, The Highway Bubba's from KDOT are sending an Emergency Highway Repair Crew to Hotlanta!
7j43k...gravel roads...
The folks in the township where I used to live want gravel roads. Between slowing drivers down and the number of folks who have horses, I suspect they'll stay gravel for the foreseeable future.
It's funny - you'll be driving down one of those gravel roads and pass a paved side street leading into a development of very expensive houses...
Oddly, I live in a pretty rural area, especially when compared to where I lived in MI, and gravel roads are rare here, mostly confined to camp and cottage roads. I can't think of a single dirt/gravel public road in my FD's first due district.
Norm48327 MC, You think it's bad there, come to Michigan. Our highways, byways and interstates suck.
MC, You think it's bad there, come to Michigan. Our highways, byways and interstates suck.
I think it's a tradition.
In the early '60's, as soon as we crossed from Ohio into Michigan, the road got worse than any road I'd seen in years. Well, not counting gravel roads and mud tracks and the like. I mean real roads.
Ed
MARTA, with some help from GRTA Xpress and Gwinnett County Transit continue to keep Atlanta moving.
Should be good talking points when MARTA expansion gets discussed
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
The roads in CO are filled with pot ... no holes there. :)
Just heard on the radio they granted bail to the man who started the I-85 fire .. he may have been safer in jail.
mudchickenSorry, CDOT is fresh out of Semi-Competent.
MC, You think it's bad there, come to Michigan. Our highways, byways and interstates suck. I've hit three tires to pothole in two years, each one costing me a new tire. Getting tired of that and ready to sue the local road commission or MDOT for incurred expenses.
Having been in the Loveland/Fort Collins area in '15 I can say your roads are much better maintained than ours.
I needed a new mouse for the computer. It cost over $300.00 including the tire that had less than 8,000 miles on it and was destroyed by a pot hole on the way to buy it.
Perhaps some semi A***ed from KDOT can come.
blue streak 1 MC please send some of those semi-competent CO DOT persons to Atlanta. They can certaintly instruct our DOT how to be more competent. Appears that an alternate route for the I-85 collaspe had just had a debri fire under a bridge on US-23. Bridge condition unknown but will remain closed until inspected. Un believable. 17 days and state has not cleared any flamable debri from under bridges especially alternate routes around Atlanta.
MC please send some of those semi-competent CO DOT persons to Atlanta. They can certaintly instruct our DOT how to be more competent. Appears that an alternate route for the I-85 collaspe had just had a debri fire under a bridge on US-23. Bridge condition unknown but will remain closed until inspected.
Un believable. 17 days and state has not cleared any flamable debri from under bridges especially alternate routes around Atlanta.
Forgot to mention this little gem from a few days ago ....
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/live-large-fire-under-rail-trestle-/430947794
Media reports have Atlanta gas light doing the work. Report gas line was abandoned and was being filled with concrete. Evidently natural gas exploded. So question is was there some residual gas inside line or outside line in soil ?.
Biggest question is why didn't the company first flood pipeline with inert nitrogen before inserting concrete ?.
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