US 10/WI 441 upgrade thread!

[msunat97]

Are there any new updates on the bridge construction?  Does anyone have a link to the project timeline?

[Alex]

Are there any new updates on the bridge construction?  Does anyone have a link to the project timeline?

Here is the project timeline:
http://projects.511wi.gov/wis441/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2016-0523_OPT2_59243_WIS_441_24x36_Project_Improvements_Timeline_v1.pdf

I followed @WIS441I41News with AARoads to keep up on the project.

[mgk920]

Are there any new updates on the bridge construction?  Does anyone have a link to the project timeline?

Here is the project timeline:
http://projects.511wi.gov/wis441/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2016-0523_OPT2_59243_WIS_441_24x36_Project_Improvements_Timeline_v1.pdf

I followed @WIS441I41News with AARoads to keep up on the project.

Crews have been cutting in the new US 10/WI 441 bridges over the future Racine St access roadway over the past few days.  Westbound was done overnight Sat-Sun (11-12 June) and I'll have to check, but they may have 'flipped' the eastbound side overnight last night (Tue-Wed).  When this is complete, traffic will be using the westbound side of the new bridges.

Mike

[msunat97]

Thanks guys.  I'm up there for business about 2x per month, but haven't researched this project.

[peterj920]

Are there any new updates on the bridge construction?  Does anyone have a link to the project timeline?

Here is the project timeline:
http://projects.511wi.gov/wis441/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2016-0523_OPT2_59243_WIS_441_24x36_Project_Improvements_Timeline_v1.pdf

I followed @WIS441I41News with AARoads to keep up on the project.

Crews have been cutting in the new US 10/WI 441 bridges over the future Racine St access roadway over the past few days.  Westbound was done overnight Sat-Sun (11-12 June) and I'll have to check, but they may have 'flipped' the eastbound side overnight last night (Tue-Wed).  When this is complete, traffic will be using the westbound side of the new bridges.

Mike

You mean the traffic will be using the new eastbound bridge while the old one is rehabbed?  The old bridge is going to carry westbound traffic only while the new one will carry eastbound traffic when the project is complete. 

[mgk920]

Are there any new updates on the bridge construction?  Does anyone have a link to the project timeline?

Here is the project timeline:
http://projects.511wi.gov/wis441/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2016-0523_OPT2_59243_WIS_441_24x36_Project_Improvements_Timeline_v1.pdf

I followed @WIS441I41News with AARoads to keep up on the project.

Crews have been cutting in the new US 10/WI 441 bridges over the future Racine St access roadway over the past few days.  Westbound was done overnight Sat-Sun (11-12 June) and I'll have to check, but they may have 'flipped' the eastbound side overnight last night (Tue-Wed).  When this is complete, traffic will be using the westbound side of the new bridges.

Mike

You mean the traffic will be using the new eastbound bridge while the old one is rehabbed?  The old bridge is going to carry westbound traffic only while the new one will carry eastbound traffic when the project is complete.

No, this is at the interchange just east of the river bridge.  The 'flip' for the river bridge happens in late summer or early fall.

Mike

[peterj920]

I drove the new stretch yesterday over the new Racine St interchange and see what you meant.  When traffic is switched over to the new bridge it looks like there is going to be a pretty sharp transition and traffic is probably going to back up.  I have a couple of pictures below. 

[peterj920]

The new US 10/Wis 441 Little Lake Butte Des Mortes Bridge opened to traffic today for I-41 north to US 10 east/Wis 441 traffic north traffic today.  In the next few weeks, all traffic will be switched to the eventual eastbound bridge while the old bridge is rehabbed to handle westbound traffic. 

[The Ghostbuster]

Maybe during the next signage replacement project, they could give the WI 441 solo segment exit numbers. They should have had them from the get-go IMHO.

[peterj920]

Maybe during the next signage replacement project, they could give the WI 441 solo segment exit numbers. They should have had them from the get-go IMHO.

WIS 441 has had mileage numbers for years, but no exit numbers for some reason.  After exit numbers and mile markers for US 10 were added, the Wis 441 numbers were kept and replaced with new signs, resulting in that stretch having 2 different mile markers.

[The Ghostbuster]

Erroneous US 10 exit numbers and mile markers at that.

[msunat97]

Is the project still on track?

[mgk920]

Is the project still on track?

It's heavily under construction.

https://projects.511wi.gov/wis441/



Mike

[invincor]

Erroneous US 10 exit numbers and mile markers at that.

What's the error?

[triplemultiplex]

Erroneous US 10 exit numbers and mile markers at that.

What's the error?

They don't correspond to the physical mileage of US 10 in Wisconsin.  By a LOT.
If you measure actual mileage of US 10, the mile markers and exit numbers would put 0 somewhere around Coon Rapids, Minnesota.

[The Ghostbuster]

I got my mileage information on US 10 from Wikipedia. It says that the very first exit on US 10 in Wisconsin in Marshfield (STH-13 north and CTH-A south) is numbered Exit 186, although Wikipedia calculates the exit's mileage from the Minnesota/Wisconsin state line is 146.95 miles, a difference of about 40 miles from the exit number. I know Wikipedia is not the most reliable source of information, but I suspect the mileage calculations are accurate. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_10_in_Wisconsin.

[invincor]

I just did a cursory check using the official state highway map, and that 40-mile error looks about right. 
I wondered if it could've been calculated using US 10's historical routing where it joined with US 12 to Hudson, but that mileage works out about the same as the current one, so that's not where it came from. 

Anyone have any ideas how this wide of an error got introduced? 

[The Ghostbuster]

Maybe a mileage miscalculation by WISDOT? As for the co-designation of US 10 with US 12 from Humbird to Hudson (enroute to St. Paul, MN), that only lasted from 1926-1934, so I doubt it was a factor in why the exits on US 10 are off the actual mileage by about 40 miles. All things considered, the current exit numbers on US 10 are likely here to stay.