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intelati49:
--- Quote from: J N Winkler on June 22, 2015, 10:44:00 PM ---
--- Quote from: route56 on June 22, 2015, 02:04:17 PM ---258-82 KA-2088-01: Reconstruction of the junction of US 24 and K-258, replacing a diamond interchange with an at-grade intersection.
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It is hard to look at this project without feeling a sense of profound dismay. To build the grade separation in the first place, and then to demolish it and regrade the embankments to form a flat intersection, is literally an example of paying someone to dig holes in the ground and then paying someone else to throw the dirt back into the holes.
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https://www.google.com/maps?ll=39.42343,-99.41626&z=17&t=h
From Google maps, it appears as if the bridge is from the 1940s to 50s and out of it's service life. I can't tell you the traffic levels there, but it doesn't look like it needs an interchange there.
route56:
--- Quote from: intelati49 on June 23, 2015, 01:41:48 AM ---From Google maps, it appears as if the bridge is from the 1940s to 50s and out of it's service life. I can't tell you the traffic levels there, but it doesn't look like it needs an interchange there.
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From what I can tell, the segment was built in the early to mid-1960s. Also, the AADT for US 24 is ~ 600.
I do think that perhaps this junction was overbuilt originally.
intelati49:
--- Quote from: route56 on June 23, 2015, 01:44:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: intelati49 on June 23, 2015, 01:41:48 AM ---From Google maps, it appears as if the bridge is from the 1940s to 50s and out of it's service life. I can't tell you the traffic levels there, but it doesn't look like it needs an interchange there.
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From what I can tell, the segment was built in the early to mid-1960s. Also, the AADT for US 24 is ~ 600.
I do think that perhaps this junction was overbuilt originally.
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I found the bridge. http://uglybridges.com/1205998
1959 is the build date.
I'm going to give them the benifit of the doubt that it's cheaper to tear it out than to replace it.
rte66man:
--- Quote from: intelati49 on June 23, 2015, 01:47:30 AM ---
--- Quote from: route56 on June 23, 2015, 01:44:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: intelati49 on June 23, 2015, 01:41:48 AM ---From Google maps, it appears as if the bridge is from the 1940s to 50s and out of it's service life. I can't tell you the traffic levels there, but it doesn't look like it needs an interchange there.
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I suspect there is quite a story behind this interchange. Would really love to discover why such an obscure junction had an interchange.
From what I can tell, the segment was built in the early to mid-1960s. Also, the AADT for US 24 is ~ 600.
I do think that perhaps this junction was overbuilt originally.
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I found the bridge. http://uglybridges.com/1205998
1959 is the build date.
I'm going to give them the benifit of the doubt that it's cheaper to tear it out than to replace it.
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route56:
You were saying, rte66man?
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