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Likely the same area that ALWAYS had slides over the years....
thanks rp
If I were the North Carolina Department of Transportation, I would rehabilitate Interstate 40 in Haywood County to minimize the effect of rock slides. Fortunately, there is Interstate 26.
Fairly common occurrence on that stretch of I-40 aka The Gorge...
Huge slide in '85, big one in '97, another in 2007 that shut down both sides for weeks, and frequent 'smaller'/lesser slides.
The current one, more a mud/tree/debris slide, should be done within a week.
As for rehabilitating I-40, 'all it would take is years and $ billions', and closure of what has become a very busy east-west interstate with no realistic/easy/timely way to get around it.
That Gorge stretch is way above average/normal statistically and frequency in terms of accidents, injuries and deaths, though on a rare light traffic weekday it is still fun to run the VetteVert or one my m'cycles through that section.
GL, mD
I don’t remember the details but 40s location is all due to dirty politics and not best route. Someone (aka a government person) paid off someone so that it was routed through Haywood county and the least geologically stable option with the hope of more tourism. There was a better route that went north to avoid the gorge.
Last edited by saucystargazer; 02-26-2019 at 01:55 PM..
I don’t remember the details but 40s location is all due to dirty politics and not best route. Someone (aka a government person) paid off someone so that it was routed through Haywood county and the least geologically stable option with the hope of more tourism. There was a better route that went north to avoid the gorge.
Interesting. One benefit of the state's Strategic Mobility formula for determining road funding is that it helped remove some of the politics (it's not possible to remove all of them) from decisions on where roads are built.
It would have been interesting to see if the road's location would have even hacked it under the old equity formula which resulted in more roads to nowhere getting built while places that needed road improvements got passed over.
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