They broke ground today on the I-95 improvement program.
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I was always embarrassed to be from SC when you would come back in state from either north or south, 95 went to crap as soon as you crossed the state line.
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I just passed it on the way to vacation! Go slowly on the 26/95 interchange cause it’s a tight squeeze with the barriers up.
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Dis-function Junction has been interesting there in Cola for over a year.
It’s going to be CRAZY when it’s complete.
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In surprised they arnt just putting down a big sheet of steel and calling it a day.
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I haven’t looked at a sketch of what it wants to be when it grows up but hard to figure out as they’re working on it. 85/385 up here isn’t as bad as it was since they finished it.
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Bump ba bump ba bump ba bump ba bump for 200 miles of 95 on a MC many times.
“Welcome to Georgia” YEAH !! 3 lanes - Hope SC does the same.
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Exactly.
It makes no sense that everywhere else I-95 is 3 lanes until you get to SC. With all of the trucks on the road they clog up traffic. Without 3 lanes you are at their mercy when they pass each other. You can’t get around them until they finally get back into the outside lane. Then you have traffic backed up behind them on the inside lane. I haven’t actually seen what the actual upgrade plan is yet but I hope that it isn’t just a big waste of time and money. Whatever it is it will probably take them 10 years to do it.
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We moved to Texas about 3 years ago after living in Beaufort for over 10 years. I thought that they were going to start this project not long after we moved. We were in Hilton Head last week, before the recent announcement. I thought that they had already started the project, until I entered SC from Georgia, only to discover nothing had changed. It will be a welcome improvement, but not likely to be finished in my lifetime. Voters in Beaufort County in 2018 approved a sales tax for $80 Million to jump start replacement of the bridges on US 278 between Bluffton and HHI, which has never happened.
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Interstate 40 across Arkansas, about 15 years ago.
It wasn’t crumbling or anything - but the crushed stone Base they used under the concrete settled. None of it was tied together - and each section started “tilting” with the lowest side of each block on the lead-end. So, it eventually formed “serrated ramps” across virtually the entire state.
As you traveled, you would drive up each “ramp”, reach the end of that block, and “fall” the 3/8”-5/8” to the next block, and so on, and so on. Speed and vehicle weight exacerbated the problem by actually hammering down the oncoming edge of each adjacent block, making driving it worse and worse by the month.
Badump!Badump!Badump!Badump!Badump!
Missouri observed this phenomenon in parts of US-71 before it became I-49; and built a machine to mill slots into the seam between each of the blocks. They would then cross-drill into the blocks, and use reinforcing rod to tie them together. Then they filled the slots with some kind of high strength cement or epoxy, and then milled the “tilt” of the blocks flat.
Eventually they paved-over the milling with asphalt, probably costing a fraction of what Arkansas spent to jackhammer up 450+ miles of concrete and base rock, and lay a new base and 10” of asphalt over that.
Concrete done properly lasts literally 5x (or more!) what asphalt alone does in the same place. Yeah, it costs 3x asphalt - but it’s after the fact where it shines
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it aint over yet… give them a min. lol.
yeah, 3 lanes throughout the state would be a minimum if you ask me. pla for future, not what it is now.. we here in SC have issues developing roads for what the future use could be, instead when we “upgrade” the roadways, we only make it better to the point that it would be better for the traffic that we have now.. not future traffic needs sadly. buncha idiots. sheesh…
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“we only make it better to the point that it would be better for the traffic that we have now.. not future traffic needs sadly. buncha idiots. sheesh…”
The way people are going and moving south all of I-95 From the NE to Key West is undersized for the volume of traffic already with more coming.
The rest areas at night can’t even hold all the 18 wheelers overnight anymore. They are FULL and lined up and down the entrance and exit ramps by dark. Thank online shopping . The “why” I travel the worst of 95 at night.
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We never plan for the future and are therefore always behind. Look at malfunction junction.
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I found the YouTube video for the Carolina Crossroads project to improve Malfunction Junction. Carolina Crossroads plan
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For years I drove a semi regularly through what I called dysfunction junction there and hated it, 4 times a day when I was assigned the Lexington route.
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exactly my point and a prime example as to why we need to change.
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