Saturday, May 17, 2014

A Graphic Of The New Underpass To Be Built Under The Existing Bypass "West" Of Williston

A reader sent me this (a huge thank you).

This is the graphic of the new underpass under the bypass which used to be "west" of Williston.

http://www.cityofwilliston.com/usrfiles/PW/News/SOIA7002130019PublicHandout.pdf

This is an incredible interchange/underpass  -- I am quite impressed. Note that in addition to the underpass itself, there is a 3/4 interchange at 18th Street.

This is going to be a real headache during construction, but my hunch is that the engineers have come up with some great detours, based on my recent experience at the "new" four-mile corner under construction now. But with much of Williston west of the bypass now, and the hospital on the east side of the bypass there was little choice. I remember Grand Forks grappling with a similar problem decades ago when the hospital was on one side of the tracks and a large segment of the population was "trapped" on the other side.

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