Looks like they'll need to build a bridge.
Fortunately, modern man knows how to build bridges, even curved ones.
The bigger concern will be if the environmentalists will allow it.
Posted on 06/10/2024 7:16:45 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
Jackson, Wyo. — A large chunk of a twisting mountain pass road collapsed in Wyoming, authorities said Saturday, leaving a gaping chasm in the highway and severing a well-traveled commuter link between small towns in eastern Idaho and the tourist destination of Jackson.
Aerial photos and drone video of the collapse show the Teton Pass road riven with deep cracks, and a big section of the pavement disappeared altogether. Part of the guardrail dangled into the void, and orange traffic drums marked off the danger area. The road was closed at the time of the collapse.
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Looks like they'll need to build a bridge.
Fortunately, modern man knows how to build bridges, even curved ones.
The bigger concern will be if the environmentalists will allow it.
Any chance Crazy Liz is under the debris?
Looking at the photo, I think the answer to your question is yes. If you used concrete etc. for all the mountain roads none of them would be there, it’s not affordable. The road was last improved 56 years ago so it lasted a while.
In the Northeast it's common to see roads through blasted rock, which is used as the substrate and will never move.
Yes, you are right. That’s done here also where possible. Considering the terrain and all the miles of mountain roads in Colorado there aren’t a lot of these problems but they do happen. This one is in a bad spot, no easy detour available.
Makes you wonder how many other parts of the road are potentially like this.
Its not dirt its called Earth
I wonder who the lucky one was that discovered it? No wrecked cars at the bottom.
I wonder why they didn’t call it the Cleavage Pass Road...
May have been fill dirt, but it was done decades ago when engineers really didn’t know any better. Then again they still don’t know any better.
And all is not lost, people can detour along route 90 through West Yellowstone, and then down 191 to Jackson.
Or Social Security Street
@43.5029977,-110.9742358?
When they check the bottom of the ravine, they might find John Dutton’s train station.
Covered by hundreds of feet of dirt, phew.
“Any chance Crazy Liz is under the debris?”
Mmmm, doesn’t look like the crater is big enough.
Been over it a few times.
I seriously doubt it was anything more than a mountain road that had been redone a few times last time maybe 60 years ago, no way it was a manmade dirt foundation.
They built them on the sides of mountains, and they fall down...
I had a geologist friend who called his consulting company “Teton Exploration”. I wonder what his insignia was.
“no way it was a manmade dirt foundation.”
I agree. Mountain construction in the west is all different from those gentle mounds they have back east.
Didn’t you ever look at the chest of his company T-shirt?
I did not. OK, I did. It was bulbous and possibly throbbing.
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