I-85 in Atlanta will actually reopen Monday. The two sections that were destroyed in a fire were replaced in a month. The Georgia Department of Transportation produced this pretty cool time-lapse video of the reconstruction:
The Atlanta Constitution-Journal reported:
I-85 in Atlanta will reopen in time for Monday’s morning rush hour commute and probably sooner.The northbound lanes probably will be open sometime Saturday and the southbound lanes sometime Sunday, Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry said at a press conference Wednesday.
That puts the bridge’s reopening at least a full month ahead of the original June 15 deadline...
Contractor C.W. Matthews has been working round the clock since then and could earn up to $3.1 million in incentives for finishing early. GDOT has said the project will cost up to $16.6 million, including incentives.
Wow.
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Now the carpetbaggers can make it to the airport in a timely fashion.
Can we have that company come over and finish 55 south from I20 past Byram? This project is one huge cluster!
Amazing what happens when human nature is leveraged toward a positive result. Incentivizes that mobilize achievement. Rewards for exceptional results. Novel concepts for some.
MDOT has done the same in MS when it was the difference in an interstate being totally closed or operative. After Katrina, rebuild of I-10 bridge included an incentive clause for early completion following its total destruction. Contractor received an early payment incentive award of over a million. But to pay such incentives just for convenience rather than necessity (such as the example of I-55 south) would break the bank even morso, when while it is inconvenient, it is not totally out of commission.
Actually, it's important to create incentives for developing the capacity to replace these structures quickly. The faster they can be replaced, THE LESS VULNERABLE THAT PART OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS, to sabotage. ...and the less tempting those structures will be, to saboteurs.
@4:23 c'mon man, its only been under construction for 5 years and had 20-30 traffic fatalities.
In a month? Wow. What calendar are they using over in Georgia? (All sarcasm intended.)
How do you burn down a damn freeway?
The highway burnt up? No shit?
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