03-03-2018, 04:14 PM
(02-25-2018, 03:39 PM)timc Wrote: I've been wondering lately when the trail is going to be open again. The signage says six months from the start, which would put it in late March, but I'm not so sure from the look of things...
I think the construction schedule was always a fantasy. They’ve just recently started working on the new bridge abutments, after tweeting a couple of months back about the specific crane that was going to be used to lift the new bridge into location “in mid-January” if I recall correctly. It was pretty obvious even then that no such thing was going to happen and sure enough it hasn’t.
If we assume that this whole “winter” thing was a completely unexpected interruption then the advertised schedule makes much more sense. 6 months of disruption (possibly more on the actual bridge site, without disrupting anything except the new bridge site itself) is a reasonable maximum time for a project of this nature, but as soon as you lose several months to weather then obviously that goes out the window.