paulj wrote:
Devoredude wrote:
I15 from I10 to the I215 interchange in So Cal was rebuilt less that 10 years ago, It has become a motocross track again in a short span of time. It is being rebuilt again.
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What exactly do you mean by 'rebuild'? Did they take it down to the base and pour new concrete? Or just strip off the top layer of asphalt and lay new? Or are we talking about general road work? On heavily traveled urban highways it is difficult to do major rebuilds. Traffic has to keep flowing, so they have work on fixing one lane or interchange at a time. Sometimes closures are limited to night hours.
The section of I5 near me (north of Seattle) has been under continual work for the past 20 years, but none of it qualifies as 'rebuild'. Currently they are repaving the lanes (top asphalt) and on ramps. 15 years ago a major intersection to the south was reworked to eliminate crossing on/off lanes. To the north they added on/off ramps around a growing mall area. There has also been work on express bus stations and connections to park-n-rides.
They are taking it down to the base, rerouting traffic, adding lanes, and doing a complete reconstruction. This is actually a widening project with bridges and bypasses. Guess maybe they didn't really maintain the previous lanes that well in looking forward to the larger highway project.
I just drove down from Bellingham to So Cal with a truck and trailer, was in Mich a month earlier, and Nebraska the month before that. Been doing three trips since 1995, can't really say it's has gotten any worse or better. After traversing dozens of states from here to all the destinations we race, each state has sections that are terrible. Can we really say any state is worse? Maybe I75 Michigan near Detroit. Ouch.
