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To: BikePacker
The road will be closed for a year at least.

When a span of I-95 collapsed in Cos Cob, CT around 1983, traffic was diverted for over a year.

3 posted on 03/26/2004 8:01:59 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Portions of the Santa Monica Freeway collapsed in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. It was rebuilt in only 12 weeks (construction on a 24/7 basis)
4 posted on 03/26/2004 8:03:30 AM PST by So Cal Rocket (If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Prediction: The road will be closed for no more than three weeks.

The disaster you described involved the collapse of the bridge over the Mianus River. Because they had to investigate the incident and replace an entire structure, the job took a long time.

Yesterday's incident is almost identical to a tanker fire on I-80 in northern New Jersey a few years ago. Because they basically just have to replace damaged beams and re-deck the brigde, it shouldn't anything close to a year.

15 posted on 03/26/2004 8:27:09 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Alberta -- the TRUE north strong and free.)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
I remember the 1983 collapse. I drove over the rebuilt temporary bridge the first day it was open.
45 posted on 03/26/2004 9:12:16 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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