Posted on 05/05/2008 1:38:24 AM PDT by TADSLOS
DALLAS - Interstate 30 is closed in both directions at Beckley Avenue in Dallas due to holes in the Beckley Street Bridge.
Reports described the hole to be about 6-feet in size and covering the westbound lanes of I-30.
Sr. Cpl. Janice Crowther said the interstate was closed to allow TxDOT and the City of Dallas Streets Department to inspect the bridge for safety concerns.
Crowther said the "significant size holes" possible posed a danger and there was no word yet on when I-30 would reopen.
There’s goes 200,000 man-hours of wasted time.
I’ve got a pretty good idea of where it is. There’s some places in that bridge that have had some pretty potholes as a result of accidents and whatever genius was in charge of repairing them hasn’t been patching them well.
Anyone looking for a bypass/detour or alternate routing through the sector, let me know. I’m familiar with the area.
This isn’t significantly different from when some idiot crashes on the bridge and locks it up for hours... The merge on that freeway from 35 is killer.
Now, that said... this isn’t too far from where that industrial gas supply house exploded earlier this year. Shrapnel and debris were raining down all over and around the thing. I wonder if this might be related to that and not the idiot patch jobs.
Bush’s Fault (c)
Global Warming.
Reports described the hole to be about 6-feet in size and covering the westbound lanes of I-30.
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Crowther said the "significant size holes" possible posed a danger ...
A 6' hole could "possibly" pose a danger? Where's that Understatement of the Year awards nomination form.
Everything's bigger in Texas, including understatements.
DOT sluggards officials will spend the next three days looking at the holes, drinking coffee and conducting meetings. Meanwhile the Department suggests 200,000 sheeple find alternate routes to their tax serf jobs. The Department reminds people that their paychecks, benefits, retirement come in no matter what. Thank you.
So I see. It must seem just like every other little ol pot hole.
Any idea what that building is?
I would imagine that having alot of big rigs slowing down to exit, or speeding up to enter, a freeway would be hard on the road.
Actually, if it turns out that it’s not too serious, it’ll probably be patched and back in service by the end of today.
TxDot is pretty good about fixing that. And we have a budget surplus in Texas, BTW.
The point that they’re talking about is actually on the bridge over that “green belt”.
The big building there is the Dallas Main Post Office. Lots and lots and lots of truck traffic. The local bulk mail distribution center is less than a mile west of there on the south side of I-30. Then there’s a Walmart less than a mile from that on I-30...
This mini circus goes on, for a hour, at least.
This is why I don’t live in Massachusetts.
Usually people are pretty good about getting the cars off to the shoulder if nothing else. That said, there are some cars that have crash relays so even in minor accidents they *can’t* be driven off the road - the car won’t run until the relay is reset or replaced.
That said, it’s not at all unusual to see someone with a large truck pushing or towing a disabled vehicle off to the shoulder (with the owner’s consent) to allow traffic to continue.
I think that the longest time I’ve seen any accident short of a fatality run is an hour - and that was a 9 car chain reaction crash below my client’s office window on the Tollway. They had the whole thing mopped up and all the cars towed within an hour, with traffic flowing normally.
6-feet in size, but only 1/2 inch deep. Or it could be 6 foot deep and only 1/2 inch in diameter. The statement, “6-foot in size,” is meaningless, but that’s how reporters think.
They had just built the turnpike that connects New York City with Albany. The only way to find the on ramps for the turnpike was to look for the signs that said, in essence, "Mass Turnpike that a-way, 50 miles." (You had to look to see which way the arrow in the pilgrims hat pointed to see which way was that-a-way.)
The New York Turnpike Authority (or whatever it's called) was too incompetent to get up signs for their own turnpike, and the Mass DOT contractors were sufficiently corrupt to get contracts for putting up signs pointing the way to the Mass turnpike, up to 50 miles away inside New York.
Actually, if it is where I think it is, it’s going to be 6’ in diameter and going to go well down into the roadbed (there’s been a slight pothole or depression there for a while).
By the way, they got rid of those great signs with the Pilgrim hat with the arrow through them. Too offensive to Indians, too religious, white people history, that kind of thing..
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