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Hoover bypass bridge...
« on: November 09, 2009, 08:53:07 AM »
I didn't even know this was going on. Fascinating...

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Re: Hoover bypass bridge...
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 04:25:26 PM »
Good.  I helped my parents move out to LV in 1997, and drove a large U-Haul truck on that road and over the dam.  That was white-knuckle driving!   :O
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Re: Hoover bypass bridge...
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 04:27:03 PM »
Note the strategic location of the Porta-Potties.   =D
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Re: Hoover bypass bridge...
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 04:31:57 PM »
They've made quite a bit of progress over the last 6 months, since last I drove it.  The arches were only half as high as they are now in that pic.

It's an amazing sight when standing down below, on the dam.  The black rigging at the end of each arch is a moving platform system used to build the next concrete form section and then add the suspension cables to it.  Then the platform is inched out further, supported by the section it just added! :O

There's a bunch of emergency netting under/behind the moving platform with quite a bit of dropped gear in it.  Hopefully no workers fell into the net (or worse).

From what I've heard, the bridge was halted for a while after they lost a crane down the side of the ravine and it was hanging from the rock face of the east cliff.  Had to drag the crane back up, first.
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Re: Hoover bypass bridge...
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 05:40:36 PM »
What's the big deal?  Never seen a dam bridge being built before?
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Re: Hoover bypass bridge...
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2009, 07:40:37 PM »
I saw it under construction back in '07 when I went to LV and across the Dam. It was fun driving across the dam, but looking up at the construction overhead made me shudder. (I'm terrified of heights).

Amazing. Simply amazing, but it will do a lot to relieve the flow of traffic.

I need to show this to my father- he used to build bridges for a living, and one of the businesses that my extended family is involved in is bridge construction...

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Re: Hoover bypass bridge...
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2009, 08:43:35 PM »
What's the big deal?  Never seen a dam bridge being built before?
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...  :lol:

I can't recall which bridge it was but I remember a guy talking about how you would be on terra firma one second but within just a few steps you'd be on a girder with like 700 ft of air below you. My hat is off to the high workers because I'm not so sure I could do it myself.
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