When Kari & I were in Las Vegas a year ago, we took the Hoover Dam tour and learned about the new four lane road being built near the dam and over the Colorado River. The top photo is from October of 2008.
Curt and I took US Highway 93 yesterday and drove over the dam. I asked Curt to stop at the same viewing area we had stopped at last year so I could take a picture and compare the two. Keep in mind the photos were taken with different cameras and I am not standing in the exact same spot, but you can see how far along the road is. There are more more concrete pillars and cables and the concrete arch on the left has been added.
The new road is scheduled to open in the fall of 2010. It will have an awesome view of the river and dam but I for one will not be driving across the great expanse. Too high, too scary. Construction workers were working on Sunday; not the big earth movers, but surveyors and graders. They were preparing the road bed leading up to and beyond the bridge. There is lots of work to do yet, but in this part of the country, road work is 12 months of the year; not like the two seasons in SD-winter and road construction.
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