| Comment | I used to work for the company doing this; Basically the viaduct carrying the motorway is fucked, and it's a giant pain in the ass to fix.
They cheaped out on the design & construction when it was built in the 70s, so the joints where the piers (big vertical pillars) connect to the sections of viaduct are degrading faster than expected, and a routine structural inspection around Feb last year basically said "you have to do something about this right now otherwise the motorway will collapse" - that's why they put out the lane closures to reduce load on it. Then because of their cheapness, those type of joints are particularly difficult to access & fully inspect/test to determine how bad the degradation actually was (and hence how much repair work was needed). I left before the full investigation was done, but I heard it was bad enough that they gave some serious thought to completely demolishing and rebuilding that bit of the motorway.
Long & short, don't expect it to be removed any time soon (probably 2 more years at least I reckon), but be glad they're doing it, otherwise we could have had a Genoa-type bridge collapse |
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