If you plan on using Highway 43 to cross the upper lake to get to Tommy's Trading Post this summer, you're out of luck. MDOT issued the following notice:
WHO: Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT)
WHAT: Temporary Bridge CLOSURE
WHEN: From 7 a.m. on Monday, July 28 until approximately Wednesday, October 1.
WHERE: Both directions of the SR 43 Bridge over the Ross Barnett Reservoir in Rankin County.
WHY: Bridge repair and/or inspection
HOW: Motorists should follow detour signs to SR 25 and I-55.
19 comments:
They just closed these bridges a couple years ago??? Maybe they'll widen everything for the bicyclists.
MDOT is doing construction that keeping peoples from leaving Jackson. Look at the bridge repair on both sides of I-55 near High Street.
I regularly like to take that drive from the trace, up to 43 and back down to Highway 25 to complete the loop. Guess I'll have to find another relaxing drive for the summer. It's okay though - that bridge they're closing has had issues for awhile so I'm glad they're addressingit.
Didn't MDOT close this route not long ago for a similar project??
They did close it awhile back. I do know that a section of the bridge that meets the roadway seemed like it kept separating and they tried numerous times to fill the gap. I can only guess this repair is related to that issue.
Any bicyclist that peddles that route has a death wish.
Current administration can't finish projects. Not sure why they even start them.
Meanwhile, DOT Maintenance has had the rest stop shut down for repair for six months, a mile south of Hernando, southbound on 55. It's the 'welcome to Mississippi center' for every vehicle coming down 55 from the state of Tennessee and other points north. Six months!
Seems like MDOT should finish a few jobs before starting more. They have quite a few jobs that they started and never finished. No one has worked on some of them in many months.
hey guys I just heard that MDOT is about to lay off about 8000 workers since the Chinese invented a shovel that can stand on its own.
Nightmare for us that regularly cross the spillway to get home every evening.
All of this is just a sign of things to come as State revenue will fall as a result of lower State income taxes and Federal Republican cuts of payments to states. Mississippi can’t print money, so services will be cut. Yes, the gas tax is going up, but it would need to double to equal the revenue from 1987, because cars get twice the gas mileage they did in 1987. That’s what happens when unthinking legislators tax gas per gallon instead of a percentage tax.
Brad White knows how to politik but building roads isn’t his specialty.
Brad White knows how to write and deliver speeches after all those years with Thad. But, he's like "The Hat"... After delivering a speech, he drags up real short on action.
By the way, the State DOT has that huge DEI department that he's afraid to touch.
"The Hat" would have closed the bridge early enough to have raised and brought in a crop of cantelopes and pumpkins seeded in some organic compost piled on the unused bridge deck.
It would have been no trouble at all for those crops to stay out of the way of the DOT workers.
Brad has done a Great Job of Respectfully presenting MDOT 's needs. The Hat would have done things differently- kinda like his Brandon,Ms Announcement of a Farmers Market Announcement-the paint is fading & Nothing insight.
The repairs a few years ago were to the longer of the two bridges that are close to each other. These repairs are to the shorter bridge a few hundred yards north. It’s the one closest to the fishing pier. Where the pavement meets the bridge itself has been sinking for years. It has been having to have asphalt added every few months for some time.
Brad has done an incredible job with the limited resources that he has. The gas tax just went up for the first time in forever, but it is still a set number of cents instead of a percentage. A lot of the funding MDOT receives is for either building new roads (not a lot) or repaving existing roads, but they do not get an unlimited amount to maintain what we now have. I too wish they had enough to six-lane the overcrowded interstates in certain areas farther out from Jackson and Memphis than they are now. Commissioner Hall told the legislature years ago that they needed to fund MDOT in a more appropriate way. So yes, Brad has done a good job, especially since he has the various commissioners to work with in each region.
Pretty soon a ferry will be the only means of crossing from Madison and Hinds to Rankin. MDOT is closing all the bridges one at a time it seems.
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