What's the expected completion date? 30 years? Is this one of the great engineering feats of modern times?
How can this be taking so long?
How can this be taking so long?
Road construction Rock Prairie @ Longmire
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Are you new to BCS? Transportation projects here are measured on a geologic time scale.
It is timed to be finished when school ends for summer. They will continue construction when school starts back again in the fall.jja79 said:
What's the expected completion date? 30 years? Is this one of the great engineering feats of modern times?
How can this be taking so long?
I think in this case it isn't the roads that are they time delay but relocating and re routine the various underground utilities.
It's job security with growth. As soon as it's done, it will be unsustainable, and it will have to be redone again. Like I-45 in Houston.
They're waiting for the crew working on the Hwy 21 off ramp to finish so they can help on Rock Prairie
Done by October I think
BQ_90 said:
They're waiting for the crew working on the Hwy 21 off ramp to finish so they can help on Rock Prairie
Nah...they're waiting for the utility crews on the Hwy 21 widening project to finish up there and then head to Rock Prairie to move the utilities there. Everything should be done by Christmas.....
2525
They started last summer and it's supposed to take over a year to complete.
Started in June 2016 and slated for 16 months.
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After TXDot started their increase of work in College Station and watching the butchering they have done, I have no faith in humanity.
They have to re work the double right turn lanes since local drivers can't seem to grasp them.
A long time ago in Paul Harvey's rest of the story segment he read a article from the Brenham Banner press about how the sun will burn out in 5 Billion years, they asked what does this mean. The rest of the story according to them was that TXDOT will have to finish 290 between Houston and Brenham in the Dark. I suspect its likely true.
... if man is still alive.Rexter said:BQ_90 said:
They're waiting for the crew working on the Hwy 21 off ramp to finish so they can help on Rock Prairie
Nah...they're waiting for the utility crews on the Hwy 21 widening project to finish up there and then head to Rock Prairie to move the utilities there. Everything should be done by Christmas.....
2525
The largest part of the project is moving utilities, and mostly taking overhead power underground. What makes it take the longest is working under traffic and phasing the job so everything stays open. Were they able to shut down the road it would have been done long ago.
they are backed up half a day every day to clean all the bird poo off all their equipment
Looking forward to the nicer looking and newly improved area when the work is done.
And then it will be just in time for the Highway entrance/exit ramps to be redone....
Is there a diagram or picture of what the finished product will look like?
I would like to see a diagram of what it will look like when finished too. Based on what has happened on the north side of the road, it looks the only substantive change is the addition of a wide sidewalk. Before construction there were two travel lanes and a left turn lane at the Longmire light ( and a sidewalk), I think.
When there is a crew onsite working (which is seldom) most of them are standing around watching one guy work. Another company in south CS has almost completed increasing over a mile of 2 lane to 4 lane AND built an elementary school since the RP/Longmire job started.
Must be the same contractor building the Atlas Hotel.
What elementary school was started and completed since last June?Jet Blue said:
When there is a crew onsite working (which is seldom) most of them are standing around watching one guy work. Another company in south CS has almost completed increasing over a mile of 2 lane to 4 lane AND built an elementary school since the RP/Longmire job started.
They are also taking the big dip out of the intersection.Quote:
it looks the only substantive change is the addition of a wide sidewalk.
Tee said:
I would like to see a diagram of what it will look like when finished too. Based on what has happened on the north side of the road, it looks the only substantive change is the addition of a wide sidewalk. Before construction there were two travel lanes and a left turn lane at the Longmire light ( and a sidewalk), I think.
Yeah, that's exactly why I'm asking. The median is a huge change though. Too many times folks turning left in the turn lane would stick out part way in a main lane.
RP east bound east of longmire will include a left turn lane continuing across the overpass, 2 through lanes across the overpass and a right turn lane onto the feeder south.
AGnCS said:They are also taking the big dip out of the intersection.Quote:
it looks the only substantive change is the addition of a wide sidewalk.
Yeah....he should be working in the side anyway.
Yeah, the north side of Longmire/Rock Prairie is almost a full foot lower than what it used to be. I hope that they'll solve the "lanes don't quite align" problem but I'm not too optimistic.AGnCS said:They are also taking the big dip out of the intersection.Quote:
it looks the only substantive change is the addition of a wide sidewalk.
Hopefully proper drainage is included. I could see this flooding out with minimal rainfall
I was thru there the other day for the 1st time in a long time.
Apparently it was foolish of me to think that one of the worst traffic intersections in town was under construction to create more lanes, and improve traffic flow.......WRONG.
I saw a huge sidewalk.
A sidewalk.
What in the world do we need with a sidewalk? Nobody walks. We need more lanes. Everywhere.
Apparently it was foolish of me to think that one of the worst traffic intersections in town was under construction to create more lanes, and improve traffic flow.......WRONG.
I saw a huge sidewalk.
A sidewalk.
What in the world do we need with a sidewalk? Nobody walks. We need more lanes. Everywhere.
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Is there a diagram or picture of what the finished product will look like?
For that you can thank 41's siggy on the Americans with Disabilities Act.Quote:
What in the world do we need with a sidewalk? Nobody walks. We need more lanes. Everywhere.
Headed to Scott & White Hospital today it took me 8 mins to turn out of Kroger onto Longmire, right on RP to the stoplight at the bridge by the bank. From now on I'll just hit the feeder from Kroger to Barron and u-turn it back to Rock Prairie east!
Good thing they painted where the cross walks are, hate to get run over crossing the streetduffelpud said:Quote:
Is there a diagram or picture of what the finished product will look like?
They only work on these kinds of projects during rush hour/commuting times, pursuant to the city's project specs & design guidelines.