Bridge closed.

[dck4shrt]

TJ Bridge is closed. Police say it'll take several hours to re-open. 4 or 5 car accident.

 

[RoseRed]

You don't say...

 

[punjabigyrl]

Guess it going to be the norm for bridge closures and accidents with all the growth. I just can't understand the reason to do a study when everyone knows we need another bridge. I wonder if they will widen the bottom of the bridge or else we will bottle neck with traffic. I am curious with the results of the study.

 

[BadGirl]

Guess it going to be the norm for bridge closures and accidents with all the growth. I just can't understand the reason to do a study when everyone knows we need another bridge. I wonder if they will widen the bottom of the bridge or else we will bottle neck with traffic. I am curious with the results of the study.

How old are you??

All a study does is spend 2 MILLION dollars to come up with an answer that we already know.. 2 years and 2 million later, they'll say "We need a new span. Lets start the 10 year 50 million dollar planning process."

By the time I die, we MIGHT actually see a new bridge or an additional span, but I doubt it.

 

[2ndAmendment]

.... I just can't understand the reason to do a study when everyone knows we need another bridge. ...

Delay. No money. We must do a study to figure out how to tax enough people to raise the money for building the bridge that everyone knows is needed.

 

[Pete]

Guess it going to be the norm for bridge closures and accidents with all the growth. I just can't understand the reason to do a study when everyone knows we need another bridge. I wonder if they will widen the bottom of the bridge or else we will bottle neck with traffic. I am curious with the results of the study.

They do a study so they don't start and have $25 million of 50 million spent only to find out something is not right and it cannot be completed, or it is going to actually cost 100 million.

 

[2ndAmendment]

Of course it really helps to have a competent engineering firm that does not miss design the bridge so that it needs to have band-aids and constant inspections. We already have one of those. We don't need another one.

Interesting note. I heard, fa cat or not, I don't know, that the principle engineer that designed the TJ bridge told the state that the design was flawed before construction started, but they went ahead anyway. Now that's a fine kettle of fish.

 

[residentofcre]

TJ Bridge is closed. Police say it'll take several hours to re-open. 4 or 5 car accident.

I left work at Hickory Hills at 4PM.... got home in CRE at 7:45PM... I saw them take three vehicles off the bridge... I was listening to WTOP because they were the only channel with traffic updates....

Alternating traffic.... that's what they were reporting.... bull hockey....

I sat in one spot for 2 hours................

I AM PO'd....................

LOCAL RADIO STATIONS SHOULD UPDATE LOCAL TRAFFIC REPORTS OR GET THE F OFF THE AIR>>>>>>

FIX THE BRIDGE>>>>>>>>

DON"T START BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION BEFORE YOU CLEAR OUT THE TRAFFIC BACK UP FROM THE WRECK....................

AN TO THE NINNIE WHO SLIDES UP NEXT TO ME JUST WHEN I AM ABOUT TO GET ONTO 2/4 AND THINKS THAT I SHOULD LET HER CUT IN...... TRY IT .... I WILL RUN YOU OVER........... IT TOOK ME 45 MINUTES TO GET THAT FAR.........