Hoover Dam Bypass (Kingman: construction, live in, design)

[Havasu]

This is a neat time elapsed vid of the bypass being made.
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/HooverDam1.wmv

[ArkansasSlim]

Wow! Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

[locolobo13]

yep. very cool.

[kawgpz550]

I live in Bullhead and had to go to Kingman then Vegas a couple of nights ago. Couldn't believe it, but at night, you don't even realize you're ON the bypass until you're no longer on it and in Boulder City. lol I guess I expected to see SOMETHING that let me know I was on it. Oh well, have to wait til I can cross during the day so I can actually see something. lol

Thanks for the video!

[BillieHiser]

Originally Posted by kawgpz550

I live in Bullhead and had to go to Kingman then Vegas a couple of nights ago. Couldn't believe it, but at night, you don't even realize you're ON the bypass until you're no longer on it and in Boulder City. lol I guess I expected to see SOMETHING that let me know I was on it. Oh well, have to wait til I can cross during the day so I can actually see something. lol

Thanks for the video!

You really don't see much during the day either! We've crossed it a few times and the first time we didn't realize we had already crossed over it. I haven't had a chance to stop and park where you can walk up to it.

[azdr0710]

if anybody wants to walk across it, take the Hoover Dam exit on the Nevada side and follow the "old" highway toward the dam...before getting to the dam, look for the Memorial Plaza parking lot and go in there....walk up the path to fantastic displays about the construction and about the two great people the bridge is named after...the walk across the bridge is beyond the displays....

yes, the view from driving across the new bridge is deliberately obscured....

[keninaz]

You cannot see anything driving across it as the barricades that line the sides to traffic are too high.
Unless you are in a really high truck you won't see anything.
That bypass sure does save time though!

[wit-nit]

Great video.
The high sides are to prevent motorists from stopping on the bridge to take photos.
There's a place to park on the west end where you can get out and walk across the bridge on the pedestrian sight seeing walkway.

[keninaz]

The barriers are also to prevent people that don't like heights from getting scared.

It has happened on other high structures and caused problems.

[MAtheBanker]

Originally Posted by keninaz

You cannot see anything driving across it as the barricades that line the sides to traffic are too high.
Unless you are in a really high truck you won't see anything.
That bypass sure does save time though!

That's what I thought it would do, too, until the last time I crossed over it! I was stuck in ridiculious traffic for 45 minutes!!

The geniuses who designed the bridge apparently didn't consider how traffic leading up to the bridge would be affected. When you're entering from the Vegas side, the road bottlenecks a couple of times in Boulder City leaving you with a wait that was WORSE than when we used to drive over the dam. Some parts of the road are just one lane!

Until they fix that problem, I'm still as annoyed as ever!