I'm Gonna Need A Detour

[alantig]

This is a section of highway that I use on my way to work.

Let me rephrase that - this was a section of highway that I used on my way to work. It's now why I'm gonna need an alternate route for, I'm guessing at least three or four days.

The road developed a dip a bit over a month ago, and it deteriorated pretty quickly. My son told me that he saw they'd started work on one of his trips to school. That solution? Pave over it. Seriously. It started to deteriorate again within a couple weeks and was notably worse in just the last week and a half. The road was closed to one lane in each direction, then to only one lane (yep - the one that's still up there). They closed the road completely yesterday to do some testing, and this morning he showed me this when I got up.

 

[alantig]

One of my favorite things about this so far - that picture is from a local TV station. The article that accompanied the video showing this said

Residents are being evacuated after an apartment building collapsed on Electric Avenue in East Pittsburgh Saturday morning.

Sky 4 video shows part of Route 30 nearby has also collapsed.

Talk about burying the lead - I'm guessing the apartment building 'collapse' was kinda related to the road. Especially since another source said the landslide came down to the building and mentioned nothing about the building collapsing.

 

[veinbuster]

You might be too optimistic.
I had a commute road in northern PA that fell off the mountain like that. To fix it they ended up carving into the mountain on the high side to make room for new lanes. The mountain was steep and solid rock so it was a looooong time before it was repaired.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Damn!!!

 

[garrettb]

Yikes! I think you guys have topped what happened here in Atlanta about a year ago. There was a fire underneath a part of I-85, which is one of the main arteries leading to/through downtown ATL, and this happened:

They had to replace several sections of the bridge:

Impressively, it only took a couple of months to open back up. But that's a piece of cake compared to a landslide. There's a heckuva lot more to consider in making that safe again!

 

[andy474x]

That must've been quite the test.

 

[bodia]

Yikes! I'd be working from home until it was fixed.

 

[Drew]

3 or 4 days? Try several months. The investigation and soil testing required to even begin to formulate a repair design could take weeks alone. Plus, they'll need to investigate adjacent uncollapsed sections to make sure there are no soil instabilities elsewhere along that route that need to be addressed. It's not like a collapsed section of bridge where you can just put a temp span in until the design of the new section can be completed.

 

[11top]

Just drive really, really fast.

 

[László]

Just drive really, really fast.

Is Evel Knievel still around?

 

[Screamingdaisy]

Below one that happened north of me a number of years back. It took 6 months to repair and turned into a tourist destination.

I don't know the exact details since I moved before it was fixed but I believe the had to reroute the highway as the ground in that area has continued to shift over the years.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Yeezh.

Yikes! I think you guys have topped what happened here in Atlanta about a year ago. There was a fire underneath a part of I-85, which is one of the main arteries leading to/through downtown ATL, and this happened:

They had to replace several sections of the bridge:

Impressively, it only took a couple of months to open back up. But that's a piece of cake compared to a landslide. There's a heckuva lot more to consider in making that safe again!

I remember that! And I don’t even live in the area.

 

[Bill SAS 513]

Alan, I was in Elizabeth (actually just south of Pittsburgh) over the weekend, and the family we were visiting had horrible potholes all along there back roads...one of them was big enough to swallow a bus, and 4-5 feet deep, with a couple simple traffic cones pointing out the void. Thank gawd we arrived during daylight hours. They said its been happening a lot with all the recent rain up in the area. Be safe, sir!!!!
Side note, stopped by Nemacolin (sp??) on 40 returning to Maryland and saw their zoo...pretty small, but way cool.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Can’t believe this is 30 years ago. I lived nearby and there was quite a storm over this!

 

[Collywobbles]

Love this walk in Derbyshire up the abandoned A625 and the nearby Mam Tor

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...kers-series-landslides-twist-recognition.html

 

[Huggy Love]

I live in SF ................................... and I did in 1989 too.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

I live in SF ................................... and I did in 1989 too.

Must have been something in the water!

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Love this walk in Derbyshire up the abandoned A625 and the nearby Mam Tor

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...kers-series-landslides-twist-recognition.html

Amazing how nature just takes things back and we’re powerless to do anything about it!

 

[Tucson Thump]

Below one that happened north of me a number of years back. It took 6 months to repair and turned into a tourist destination.

I don't know the exact details since I moved before it was fixed but I believe the had to reroute the highway as the ground in that area has continued to shift over the years.

And which continental plate would you like to reside on?

 

[vchizzle]

Dude, there's still like a whole good lane there?!? Sack up, and carry on.
Hope nobody was hurt.