jcutonilli
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- Mar 28, 2013
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I’m told this is being pushed until the end of the month per someone that lives on Randolph Road.
Why does it take 5 months to lay some pipe and cable under a road?
Still not convinced that the incompetent idiots need 5 months to dig a trench and run some conduit. We aren’t using shovels and baskets here.
The usual utilities, gas, electric, water, and sewage.I wonder how much is already in the ground around there that will have to be worked around or relocated.
Why does it take 5 months to lay some pipe and cable under a road?
This is what happens when the contracts go to the cheapest bidder!! No one wants to work hard and our taxes pay for the crews to just drink coronas on the job
-big Wang
The stack of conduit starts about 25' deep, then comes up from there(multiple conduits). In this case, they will be tunneling under railroad tracks.
That should be interesting. What could possibly go wrong?
(Project engineer Murphy in charge - same guy who built the first Silver Spring Metro station.)
That's the way the whole project has been done. There's no room to run all that pipe horizontally/side by side. Not with all the other utilities down there. We're not talking about just a couple pipes.
My concern was the weight/vibration from the trains running overhead. You couldn't pay me enough to go into that situation.
They'll probably do the stretch directly under the track pneumatically with a piercing tool.
They can't just up and close businesses for five months.
Just a friendly reminder. Westbound Randolph road closes today(or tomorrow)between Nebel St. and Parklawn Dr for the next 6 months.