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The last time I-10 was hit by a barge it was shut down for three months. This time the damage appears to be worse.
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Not only is there significant damage to the bridge, officials fear the barges in the water underneath may have combustible materials in them. The bridges will remain shut down indefinitely.
Ferris Wheel Allstar said:
this is effing up traffic so horribly on the east side.
agnerd said:
East bound side looks salvageable.
West Bound side looks like the entire support and short and long span on each side is going to have to completely come out and get replaced. I'm thinking 3 months MINIMUM, but more like 6 months and only if they can get emergency approval to skip environment permitting. With full environmental permitting, 2021 would be optimistic.
cramping your style of getting golden triangle girls to agree to come back to a certain neon blue Ferris wheel for a certain activity?Ferris Wheel Allstar said:
this is effing up traffic so horribly on the east side.
Its effing up my revenue stream that pays for all those trips around the blue wheel of loveblindey said:cramping your style of getting golden triangle girls to agree to come back to a certain neon blue Ferris wheel for a certain activity?Ferris Wheel Allstar said:
this is effing up traffic so horribly on the east side.
Protection structure for the support columns. Looks like it got smoked pretty good given the damage to it.West Texas Lawyer said:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the round thing in the water that is busted open?
randy828 said:
Come on, that ain't nothing a little duct tape and Flex Seal couldn't fix!
Doesn't matter whether you're improving things or making them worse. REVIEW TIME on the permit is averaging 1.5 years right now in Harris County.chimpanzee said:agnerd said:
East bound side looks salvageable.
West Bound side looks like the entire support and short and long span on each side is going to have to completely come out and get replaced. I'm thinking 3 months MINIMUM, but more like 6 months and only if they can get emergency approval to skip environment permitting. With full environmental permitting, 2021 would be optimistic.
Unless the construction company employs a race of aliens that craps plutonium straight into the river, I don't really think you're going to move the needle on the environmental quality of that stretch of river. They already have "don't eat any fish that you catch here" signs up all over the place around there.
Those are supposed to protect the bridge from runaway boats and barges. Obviously don't work very well when multiple huge barges gets caught in a huge current at high water elevations.West Texas Lawyer said:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the round thing in the water that is busted open?
"Hey boss...yeah, I'd like to see if I can come in around 11p and leave by 2a. You cool with that?"Charlie Kelley said:
Why don't they just put down one of those bridges that we used in ww2 to span rivers?
On a serious note, I drove back from fourchon last night and purposely timed it to hit that stretch around 2 am, no problem on the detour route then so maybe adjust your work schedules.
After Harvey, it only seem to take about 2 months to get construction going on replacing I-69 (US-59) Eastex. They moved lanes to the other bridge, ripped out a section and redid that in about 3 months. Sucked for a bit, but was do-able.agnerd said:Doesn't matter whether you're improving things or making them worse. REVIEW TIME on the permit is averaging 1.5 years right now in Harris County.chimpanzee said:agnerd said:
East bound side looks salvageable.
West Bound side looks like the entire support and short and long span on each side is going to have to completely come out and get replaced. I'm thinking 3 months MINIMUM, but more like 6 months and only if they can get emergency approval to skip environment permitting. With full environmental permitting, 2021 would be optimistic.
Unless the construction company employs a race of aliens that craps plutonium straight into the river, I don't really think you're going to move the needle on the environmental quality of that stretch of river. They already have "don't eat any fish that you catch here" signs up all over the place around there.
