Georgia DOT: 'I 85 Repairs Will Likely Take Several Months'

Fox 5 ^ | 3/31/2017 | Aungeliqe Proctor

[jazminerose]

The Georgia Department of Transportation said it will take at least several months to repair Interstate 85, where an intense fire caused a section of the elevated northbound lanes to collapse during the Thursday evening rush hour.

[yarddog]

Move the Capital too.

[azishot]

The sustained high temperature affects the steel yield point.

That's one reason I hate to drive on overpasses or underpasses. Or go through tunnels...but that's another story.

[AZLiberty]

An under-bridge meth lab?

[jazminerose]

If someone were to do that, which seems unlikely, yes that could generate enough heat to start the fire.

[PAR35]

Hope you are retired if you don’t know what fiberoptic conduit is. https://www.google.com/search?q=fiberoptic+conduit&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[PAR35]

The first thing Georgia should do is move the Capitol back to Milledgeville.

IS the old mental hospital still available to house the politicians?

[exnavy]

fiberoptic cable is for data transmission, it is not conduit.

[UCANSEE2]

Close. The 3 men arrested in connection to the fire are homeless crack smokers. This place was ideal. Underneath a box shaped area of overpasses, piles of plastic pipes and conduit that had been there for at least 4 years. All kinds of nooks and crannies to hide in. Shelter from the rain.

A homeless man's dream.

[UCANSEE2]

There’s not much there to burn.

Yes there was. TONS and TONS of PLASTIC. Plastic is made of ....... oil.

[soycd]

Basil Eleby ...

[PAR35]

fiberoptic cable is for data transmission, it is not conduit.

You run fiber through conduit.

Note to self. Don't hire ex navy electricians to run cable around the house.

[UCANSEE2]

fiberoptic cable is for data transmission, it is not conduit.

Fiberoptic cable is surrounded by a plastic piping. Electrical power wiring is surrounded by a metal piping.

BOTH serve the same purpose. Both are called CONDUIT.

[PAR35]

They say the taxpayers are going to get stuck with the bill for the repairs. They ought to look to the owners who stored their flammable substances improperly, and the City of Atlanta who didn’t do anything about it.

[UCANSEE2]

fiberoptic cable is for data transmission, it is not conduit.

And fiberoptic cables are run in bundles, and the bundles are inside a plastic outer piping which is called a CONDUIT.

[Nuc 1.1]

Agreed. Probably arson. Gonna be a mess in Atlanta for a while.

[PAR35]

You ripping off folks by using metal electrical conduit when there is cheaper non-metalic electrical conduit available? Or is your training so far out of date that you haven’t kept up with modern materials? PVC appears to be the most common material used for non-metallic ELECTRICAL CONDUIT.

[JPJones]

“Several Months” doesn’t sound bad at all.

Here in Springfield MA, the highway overpass repair is taking several decades.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Fiber optic smooth wall innerduct HDPE. Goes underground, most often in trenches or pulled in via horizontal boring. Not used in buildings.

[BwanaNdege]

“How the hell do you burn down an overpass or elevated highway? It’s concrete and steel. There’s not much there to burn.”

“Watch and become Wise, Grasshopper!” :-)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705813012253

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeiOSp9hqLI Concrete under Fire Exposure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CixMjo5VtgA Concrete spalling during a fire test at Efectis Nederland

[Karl Spooner]

It sure looks a little too precise to me.

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