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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Holy mackeral. Guess there are a bunch of folks working from home for a while longer.
Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | ||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Good Lord, I know that stretch of I-95 well, it’s right near my Aunt and cousin’s neighborhood in Northeast Philly. Detouring through that area is going to be an absolute clusterfuck. And knowing just how slow and corrupt Philadelphia is if they are saying months, it’s going to be like a year or longer. | |||
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| Leatherneck |
A few years ago a bridge on I-85 in Atlanta collapsed sitting down traffic both ways for 43 days. It sucked, but the city offered a few million in incentives for the construction company to finish early and the section reopened a couple months before the original estimates. Hopefully they can do the same up there. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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Wait, what? |
I-95 is the east coast’s most important artery; they will get it fixed as fast as humanly possible. This won’t be a pork project that takes a long time to complete. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Something similar to that happened not far from where I live, several years ago: Stretch of I-75 closed after fuel tanker explosion. The crossroad overpass wasn't such a big deal. Major inconvenience: Yeah. But I-75? In that location? What a mess.  "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I hope that city officials are competent enough to work with food and other retail wholesalers to triage the necessity of essential goods needed to support the population and work out alternative delivery routes that will cause the least amount of havoc and gridlock. I think a situation like this can go sideways very quickly. __________ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy." | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Yeah, when they really want to, it's amazing how fast these construction crews can get shit done. In the San Francisco Bay Area, an elevated section of highway collapsed in 2007 for the exact same reason here, a tanker truck fire.  Assuming it would take months to rebuild, the new bridge actually opened just 25 days after the accident. The $5 million in bonuses offered by completing the job by a certain date certainly helped move things along. I'm just glad this incident in Philly didn't happen near Southeast Philadelphia closer to the airport. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
Yeah…but you’re dealing with PennDOT and Philly. It will take forever. It takes PennDOT 18-24 months to replace simple bridges over small creeks around here. It’s all unionized and they DGAF who they’re inconveniencing. | |||
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Unflappable Enginerd |
Well crap, I'm headed up there next week, and that is on my route to my customers location... sigh. __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep  |
[Inspector Clouseau] “Not any more…” [/Inspector Clouseau] _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep |
It’s happened before in Philly… The great tire fire of 1996… _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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"Member" |
I watched a few seconds of the news video to remind me why I don't watch the news. (Side rant: We need to have this girl go stand out in traffic and tell you things, things that I could have told you sitting here. It's to try to lend some validity to what we do. Pleas continue to pretend it's 1955 and that we're actual journalists) | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
So this crash happened where I-95 runs over the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia (Northeast Philly) and I've already seen videos of cars inching along detoured through that neighborhood, I would NOT want to live there over the next year or so I think it will take them to fix this as you will be barely able to get in and out of your street due to the sheer volume.   Now I just saw this, not surprising one bit: https://twitter.com/KeeleyFox2...547541544075264?s=20 | |||
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| Ol' Jack always says... what the hell. |
It has made the traffic on 295 3x as bad as it usually is. I already hated driving 295 before this. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
We seem to have a rash of truck fires destroying Interstates. It almost seems part of a conspiracy--almost. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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 I said something along those lines to someone yesterday, it would make a good type of "annoyance terrorism". | |||
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It will be an xtra-super-porky project that will get done after an appropriate amount of delays proportional to the level of incompetence in the govt agencies responsbile. Or something like that. sooner is not soon enough in this case, what an unfortunate pita. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Stop | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
Noted. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Not just Pennsylvania, Massachusetts has had some major closures, Williams Tunnel Ceiling collapse I90, the union stronghold on the state governments in the North East make any project longer and costlier. | |||
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