Interstate 10 Bridge Update
I saw on the NOLA website some hours ago, that repair of the I-10 bridges may begin within a week. It says that the Eastbound bridge may be open to two-way traffic in 4-6 weeks.
This would not preclude the implementation of my suggestion in the preceding post. It obviously is necessary to get some traffic flowing. It would take considerably more lead time to evaluate, design and redo those bridges as I suggested. Certainly, the work will be concentrated on one at a time.
Perhaps it can happen, for the other span, once the repairs are completed on the first one. Once it is open to traffic, then the first one can be raised similarly.
By the way, I haven't yet heard whether the old Hwy 11 bridge survived the storm, or the parallel railroad bridge either. Did that (those) bridges still exist before the storm? Perhaps some kind reader could post a comment regarding their current status.
I remember seeing a train from the Hwy 11 bridge, the morning after Betsy in '65. This freight train, sans locomotive, was stranded on that railroad bridge. The lake was still rough, with the winds still pretty steady at about 40 mph. Found out later, that it had gotten so dicey that the engineers had abandoned the train for the safety of Slidell. The three man crew in the caboose had to ride it out on the bridge. They had a rough night. The Guard closed Hwy 11 after we gawkers got back to Slidell.
This would not preclude the implementation of my suggestion in the preceding post. It obviously is necessary to get some traffic flowing. It would take considerably more lead time to evaluate, design and redo those bridges as I suggested. Certainly, the work will be concentrated on one at a time.
Perhaps it can happen, for the other span, once the repairs are completed on the first one. Once it is open to traffic, then the first one can be raised similarly.
By the way, I haven't yet heard whether the old Hwy 11 bridge survived the storm, or the parallel railroad bridge either. Did that (those) bridges still exist before the storm? Perhaps some kind reader could post a comment regarding their current status.
I remember seeing a train from the Hwy 11 bridge, the morning after Betsy in '65. This freight train, sans locomotive, was stranded on that railroad bridge. The lake was still rough, with the winds still pretty steady at about 40 mph. Found out later, that it had gotten so dicey that the engineers had abandoned the train for the safety of Slidell. The three man crew in the caboose had to ride it out on the bridge. They had a rough night. The Guard closed Hwy 11 after we gawkers got back to Slidell.
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