Pot-Luck-Humor - HOOVER DAM BYPASS - UPDATE.

 

Here is the Real Latest updated from a friend of mine who just came across the dam, also if anyone is interested October 16 or 17th there will be a walk across before it is open to traffic. Sounds like it could be A lot of fun RBLV These are apparently the latest photos of the bridge.  It is drivable now.    On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Me! <my1viking@yahoo.com> wrote: Drove back from the Grand Canyon yesterday and back into LV.  That bridge is almost drivable now.  In fact, the work truck are using it now.    It is all but done, even some of the paint is on it now.   There'a gotta be a newer update, I saw this earlier this summer.... On 9/23/10, RBLV <sparkling651@gmail.com> wrote:         HOOVER DAM BYPASS - UPDATE This is amazing!                                     HOOVER DAM BYPASS.   THIS IS AN UPDATE.. NOT A REPEAT. THE WIDER VIEW: Taking shape, the new bridge at the  Hoover Dam Creeping closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two sides of  A $160 million bridge at the  Hoover Dam slowly take shape.  The bridge will carry a new section of  US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be seen twisting and  Winding around and across the dam itself.   When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of  Nevada and  Arizona .  In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive  Concrete arches which jut out of the rock face.   The arches are made up of 53 individual sections each 24 feet long which have been  Cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung  Between temporary steel pylons.   The arches will eventually measure more than 1,000 feet across.  At the moment, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge.   But once the arches are complete, the suspending cables on each side will be removed.  Extra vertical columns will then be installed on the arches to carry the road. The bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called  The  Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada  And an American Football player from Arizona who joined the US Army and was killed  In Afghanistan. Work on the bridge started in 2005 and should finish next year.  An estimated 17,000 cars and trucks will cross it every day.   The dam was started in 1931 and used enough concrete to build a road from  New York  To  San Francisco .  The stretch of water it created,  Lake Mead , is 110 miles long and  Took six years to fill.  The original road was opened at the same time as the famous dam in 1936.    An extra note:  The top of the white band of rock in Lake Mead is the old waterline prior  To the drought and development in the  Las Vegas area.  It is over 100 feet above the current water level...   Pretty Awesome...

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