I-85 bridge near Piedmont Rd Collapses. (Atlanta, Dunwoody: live in, cost, housing)

[sedimenjerry]

Originally Posted by alisonrs

As the fallout from this event continues I believe it willl shine a light on the many quality of life fails in Atlanta. People living absurd distances from their places of work, aging road infrastructure, terrible decision making (storing flammables under a major highway), how close this city actually is to total gridlock, a total lack of usable transit to take up the slack, the racism inherent in counties like Gwinnett voting against MARTA: whose residents will now bear the brunt of commuting without I-85, etc. This next month will be interesting.

You do know a lot of the people most affected by this live intown right? All the surface streets around that area are just a mess. My sister lives off Peachtree north of Midtown and it's just a constant parking lot. A lot of the areas around Lindbergh are also heavily congested.

[0nyxStation]

Originally Posted by Columbia Scientist

I work on the Northside and thankful I have access to marta. Hopefully no one was hurt but it may make a case for expanded transit.

Especially in Dekalb and Fulton where I think there should be at least 10 more heavy rail stations ITP.

[0nyxStation]

Originally Posted by fieldm

Shout-out to the people in Gwinnett. This is what you get for not ha ing MARTA. Good luck in traffic tomorrow. Lol

You make a good point Tony. Racism can back fire on people.

[TheTravelinMan]

Originally Posted by goillini8

I honestly think "fast track" would be four months (or or possibly more). As I said upthread, it's not simply rebuilding it - they know how how to do that. It's all the preliminary investigation, reports, communication between federal and state agencies, etc. Since it's such an important slice of the highway system in Atlanta, no doubt they will fast track it. But, it's gonna be more than a month.

Yes thats about right. I'd say around Labor Day might be what to expect.

[flyonpa]

Originally Posted by TheTravelinMan

Yes thats about right. I'd say around Labor Day might be what to expect.

Labor Day sounds about right,

FastTrack 24x7 operation..


In Washington State on the I5 They had a "Temporary" bridge up in 3 week, at the 4 month point they had a new span installed.

[therealpattman]

Originally Posted by dpatt.marine1

And folks are still against building a northern arc??? This should open up some folks eyes.

I understand this happened ITP but a second outer perimeter would have made I-85 less of a needed commodity particularly with heavy freight traffic. The expansion of MARTA to the edge cities would have helped tremendously because folks could have just drove to the station, parked and used transit to completely avoid the problem. I'd imagine if one line reached Cumberland/Suntrust Park and one line reached Gwinnett Place Mall the area wouldn't be hurting as much as it is now.

[dblackga]

Originally Posted by Forhall

So any commuters have traffic updates?

This is just another example of why living 35+ miles from your workplace is silly. Not sure why some people want to add 2 hours to their workday sitting in the car even without bridge collapse traffic.

Judge, much? Maybe because you want your children to go to excellent schools and you want to live in a house that has more than 1.5 baths for a family of 4 that doesn't cost 3/4's of your monthly take-home?

[bu2]

Originally Posted by CitiesinUSA

People in the know are saying only about 6+ months, 9 max.

18 is insane.

That's encouraging. I just know that Pensacola took about 3 years after the hurricane destroyed the Escambia Bay Bridge.

[dblackga]

Originally Posted by 0nyxStation

I dont think its as bad as the media is making out to be. At least it happened on a Thursday evening and not a Sunday night. The situation does point to a lot of problems of the Connector 85 75 20 & 400 being life or death of us getting around the city. Maybe its just Braves karma.

What possible difference would it make to have it better to collapse on a Thursday during rush hour instead of a Sunday evening?

[bu2]

Originally Posted by BELMO45

It's pretty clear that some did because an excessive amount of people came down 400 and are getting diverted off at Sidney Marcus or Lenox. I don't think that many people would be doing that if they knew

Sidney Marcus/Lennox is awful on normal rush hours. On bad days, that last couple of miles getting to 400 down Cheshire Bridge can take 30 minutes. I can't even imagine what its like over there today.