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on: Today at 03:56:29 PM
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Started by Max Rockatansky - Last post by Max Rockatansky | ||
Mosquito Road southbound through the switchbacks to over the Mosquito Bridge:
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on: Today at 03:51:03 PM
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Started by Max Rockatansky - Last post by Max Rockatansky | ||
Awhile back I was alerted to the presence of the Mosquito Bridge (or Mosquito Road Bridge) by NE2. The Mosquito Road Bridge is located on the South Fork American River near Placerville and features a somewhat unique wooden suspension span. The Mosquito Bridge current was constructed in 1939 according to Bridgehunter.com and El Dorado County. The Mosquito Bridge is 245.1 feet in length and carries a 8.9 foot road deck. Both approaches to the Mosquito Bridge have at least a 15% gradient with the north approach being especially haggard (I can't recall the last time I saw signs to yield to uphill traffic) as it is aligned through numerous switchbacks.
Normally I would wait to throw this into a Gribblenation blog but this was too much fun not to share. These photos below are from Mosquito Road heading north over the Mosquito Bridge. Note; the northward approach isn't too bad until the sudden right hand turn over the Mosquito Bridge and climb uphill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Regional Boards / Mid-South / Re: San Antonio: TxDOT selects contractor for $1.51 billion IH 35 express lanes
on: Today at 03:49:03 PM
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Started by MaxConcrete - Last post by longhorn | ||
Why is the press release showing the I-35 Waco rebuild as its main pic?
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on: Today at 03:46:05 PM
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Started by Roadgeekteen - Last post by kevinb1994 | ||
When I was younger than you, diet soda wasn’t that bad.Diet soda is the worst.I actually prefer diet soda. I should note that I still drink Dr. Pepper. It was handed to me whenever a fast food joint was out of other options. I will most likely drink that or Sprite (of all the options on the list above). Coke is very common here in the Southeast (it was invented up in Columbus, Georgia, by a man from Knoxville, Georgia), of course. |
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on: Today at 03:43:34 PM
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Started by Chris - Last post by architect77 | ||
Georgia desperately needs something that goes east-west north of Atlanta, besides I-285. No matter whether it's called the Outer Perimeter or something else at another latitude, some kind of expressway between I-75 and I-85 needs to happen, and traffic is only going to get worse until then. I'm sure I've posted this before but this is after lunch, weekday, Summer, basically at the time of least traffic on a typical day, and on the other side trucks sit in queue for 5-10 miles waiting to transition from I-85 Southbound to I-285 Westbound. I can't believe the leaders of this state can live with this. Sadly I bet most Americans don't even realize that this chokepoint is because multiple state's traffic have no other way to get across Georgia. They just likely attribute it to big city congestion and brush it aside. But its due to a very real inadequacy. ![]() |
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National Boards / General Highway Talk / Re: How many miles did you drive during the year of the pandemic?
on: Today at 03:35:58 PM
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Started by jeffandnicole - Last post by tigerwings | ||
About 30k on my company truck
1K on my personal truck About 8k on the old SVU (now my daughter's ride) About 2K on the new SVU (since December) No driving for a vacation. |
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on: Today at 03:35:13 PM
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Started by Roadgeekteen - Last post by Roadgeekteen | ||
Diet soda is the worst.I actually prefer diet soda. |
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on: Today at 03:18:12 PM
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Started by kenarmy - Last post by thspfc | ||
SOCCER:Us missing out on the World Cup in 2018 killed that narrative. Strong performances in Qatar next year and on our turf in 2026 might change things though. |
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on: Today at 02:52:42 PM
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Started by TheGrassGuy - Last post by MNtoOC | ||
It's fairly rare to find this posted in MN when the freeway is overpassing, but here are the ones I can think of. This brings up one of the signs I always find odd, as for some reason MnDOT placed the Oakdale 50th Street markers in the medians for both northbound and southbound 694. https://goo.gl/maps/7a4M2bX3yvXX3KvN8 |
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on: Today at 02:49:37 PM
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Started by thspfc - Last post by thspfc | ||
I'm surprised nobody brought up this monstrosity in the Kansas City area (I-35 / I-635).This one wins my vote for worst freeway-to-freeway interchange in the country. What an embarrassment. This seems to be an overarching problem in the Kansas City area - they have so many freeways (most freeway miles per capita of any metro area in the county), that they seem to favor quantity over quality, and the result is a lot of substandard freeways and interchanges. |