Posted on 03/26/2015 2:28:20 PM PDT by bgill
An oversized tractor-trailer hit a beam of an overpass under construction on Interstate 35 in Salado, causing several beams to fall onto the roadway, according to Texas Department of Transportation officials.
One person was killed and three others were taken to Baylor Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple with injuries that were not life threatening, Bell County authorities said.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
Guess TX will need a few more bike or jogging paths....Maybe they can get some *fresh* labor from over the border coming North.
Say, when was the last audit of the transportation dept. done? I’d LOVE to see the list of projects vs. expenditures. I’d bet that ‘maintenance’ wasn’t too high on the list
A huge water main burst in Austin today which has the Metro Rail shut down. While these are accidents and will be repaired in a couple days, imagine if they were intended. Interruption of major highway and rail traffic would be easy.
Can’t post impressive pic of water - http://www.kvue.com/story/news/local/2015/03/26/water-main-break-impacts-metrorail-service/70495136/
I wonder where the drive of that tractor trailer come from?
Looks like this traverse to Mexico is being substantially widened.
Just up the road from me. Salado is a chokepoint. A thread the needle experience. That stretch of I35 has been under construction for at least a decade. DIL is driving down I35 to oir place as I keyboard. I’m having her divert down 190 and 195.
One article I read indicated carrying a cherry picker and had a permit.
TXDOT said the clearance was 14” 1/2” and had signs out saying 13’ 6”
You Yankees, as usual, have a very distorted view of Texas. There are very few ‘rural’ exits along IH-35 from south of San Antonio to the Red River. This particular area is under heavy construction and the frontage roads are blocked due to lack of a bridge across the Lampasas River. We did not need one until our population exploded.
Bell County (Salado) is in a very high growth situation because of all of the refugees from the liberal states looking for jobs and escaping the global warming that is overwhelming the area north of an Oklahoma/North Carolina line.(I think you chose Florida.)
I use the particular exit involved in this accident when I am going to or from Austin. As it is my wife was in Austin today for a DRT (Daughters of the Republic of Texas) meeting and had to divert 40 miles east of Austin to take an uncluttered route home. (283 to 77 to 36 to 93 to Belton,10 miles north of Salado.)
The small towns along the nearest alternate route were cluttered with the diverted traffic and had Troopers directing traffic.
Just saw a notice on I35 in San Antonio that it was closed North of Georgetown. I’m headed back home to NW Arkansas Saturday I monitoring the situation and planning alternate routes...
I 35 between Austin and Dallas is lousy in the best of times. Rick Perry and the late Ric Williamson were trying to leverage it to push through their Spanish owned toll road ‘Trans Texas Corridor. They weren’t able to push it through, Williamson turned up dead shortly thereafter, and basic repairs were finally restarted. The TxDot finally gave up and started a much needed expansion of the road.
That explains the heavy traffic this afternoon on US281 which runs parallel to I-35 but a ways west of there.
RIP.
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