Story Created:
Jan 10, 2008 at 5:35 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Apr 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM CDT
We're still waiting on one section of the Falls Flyover to open and it seems we'll have to wait even longer.. The Texas Department of Transportation says it needs to tear part of the bridge down and start over.
Figuring this problem out hasn't been an easy process. Engineers from this area had to get with Austin engineers, then come up with a fix. A complicated process--but now the bridge can be repaired.
Today workers finishined work on this section of the Falls fly-over. However, there are some issues with work on the road-bed that runs from Northbound US-287 to Westbound Kell Freeway.
James Kelley is the Wichita Falls Area Engineer for Tex-Dot... "After we completed the last pour on the deck we noticed there were some cross slopes that were not up to what we expected."
Officials say the first step was to get the agency's bridge engineers from Austin to Wichita Falls. Kelley says, "We got them down here to try and tell us exactly what happened and how to help us come up with a fix."
Engineers figured out the problems were with the placement of the line "T" deck that resulted in something else called undesirable cross slopes.
"Cross slope is the banking. It's like the race tracks where you have the banking to go around the curves. This bridge has a curve in it and the banking wasn't suitable," says Kelley. So what has to happen now, is 360 feet of the bridge will be demolished and rebuilt. Officials say the reconstructed section should be open in mid-summer.
James Kelley is the Wichita Falls Area Engineer for Tex-Dot... "After we completed the last pour on the deck we noticed there were some cross slopes that were not up to what we expected."
Today workers finishined work on this section of the Falls fly-over. However, there are some issues with work on the road-bed that runs from Northbound US-287 to Westbound Kell Freeway.James Kelley is the Wichita Falls Area Engineer for Tex-Dot... "After we completed the last pour on the deck we noticed there were some cross slopes that were not up to what we expected."
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