Teton Pass is the major roadway between Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Victor, Idaho.
Going to be a long summer for those residents and businesses.
Good thing we've got Mayor Pete on the job!
Posted on 06/09/2024 10:16:41 AM PDT by Drew68
After two days with a mudslide and landslide, Wyoming State Highway 22 over Teton Pass has “catastrophically failed” and is expected to be closed for the long-term, according to the Wyoming Department of Transportation.
On Thursday, the road was temporarily closed after eight-inch cracks developed in the roadway at milepost 12.8.
Department crews and a contracted team from Evans Construction started working in the region to “construct a detour around the damage, but the landslide continued to move, taking out the whole road,” the department reports.
On Friday, due to “continued movement, the crews had been working to remove asphalt from the roadway in an effort to minimize the weight on the unstable ground and reduce the driving force pushing the movement,” according to the department.
They intended to reconfigure the road closer to the mountain “in shoe fly detour configuration,” prior to the roadway’s total failure. No crew members were injured or equipment damaged in the landslide.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation also reported Saturday morning that Friday’s “mudslide at milepost 15 on Teton Pass, has breached the roadway with mud and debris, overwhelming the channeled drainage ditch and culvert.”
Dispatched crews, with assistance from the Idaho Department of Transportation, continued to remove mud and debris Saturday morning at that location, the department reported.
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Teton Pass is the major roadway between Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Victor, Idaho.
Going to be a long summer for those residents and businesses.
Good thing we've got Mayor Pete on the job!
“Good thing we’ve got Mayor Pete on the job!”
I thought that the pic pretty much represented the great nothingness that is Buttewhatever’s brain. He is soooooo the representative Biden administration cretin.
No more day trips to Grand Targhee.
OMG! Catastrophic doesn’t do that justice!
I’ve been on that road, but 40 years ago on a trip West from Wisconsin.
It looks like somebody screwed up the drainage.
Nothing that a little plywood and duct tape won’t fix.
Looks like a chunk on the left is ready to go anytime.
How many truckloads of dirt after packing to fill that hole?
It’s an Atlas Shrugged world.
From a hill to a gorge. Doesn’t matter who secretary of transport is, that’s gonna be a lot of work, in a rural area that’s big equipment resistant.
Looks like they’ll need to build a bridge in that area if they want to keep using it?
Or was it already filled once before to build the road?
How is that even fixable? A bridge or a new section of roadway on the other side of the collapse?
pete better rename it to something that is not in anyway racist- that’ll fix the issue immediately
Danged prairie dogs destroy everything with their digging.
The perfect metaphor for this Administration.
Thank God no one was hurt.
This is how far we have fallen as a country.
I think you could still cross that on a unicycle or a pogo stick (I’m thinking that would be an awesome TikTok challenge), but vehicle traffic could be a little difficult. The long way ‘round is from the south. Could be a little lean this ski season.
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