Here We Go Again

[chico bill]

Just saw they posted new signs in Cangreo saying the Cangrejo Bridge is closed for new bridge construction.
It wasn't closed today but I think they are posting the signs in preparation of demolishing the old structure. Anyone have an informed update ?

Could be a few months of impossible detours on that prior narrow haul - with no walk across availability on the damaged bridge, like before
Just in time for tourist season ?

 

[cavok]

That's crazy. Even when that small bridge in Jamao was damaged, they never closed it down while the new bridge was being built and that relatively small new bridge took about 4 months to build(maybe longer?).

 

[NALs]

That's crazy. Even when that small bridge in Jamao was damaged, they never closed it down while the new bridge was being built and that relatively small new bridge took about 4 months to build(maybe longer?).

That was before this.

Colapsa el puente Pontón-La Vega; se desborda el río Yuna y aeropuertos reanudan operaciones - Propuesta Digital

Santo Domingo, 19 sept - El puente seco en la Autopista Duarte, en el tramo Pontón- La Vega, colapsó la tarde de este lunes, aunque estaba cerrado desde

lapropuestadigital.com

It's fresh in the minds of the MOPC.

The collapse of that bridge is probably for the better of many expats. The alternative would be for the Cangrejo bridge to collapse... while an expat or two is crossing it. Then DR1 will real,y hear about this.


The new bridge will most likely be a simple nothing to write home about bridge, but given that area is within a tourist zone the new bridge should be a mini this.

El Puente del Caballo Blanco, en Wembley, Londres

www.tcbolts.com

Oh well. Most of the "cool looking" bridges in the DR are not in the nothern part of the country. In fact, now that I think of it the "coolest" bridge in the Cibao is the Hermanos Patiño in Santiago. Get this, that too was built by Trujillo (well, he paid for it, it was really designed and built by Americans).

Ok, and the one in Samaná built by Balaguer (and the pedestrian bridge by UTESA on Sadhalá also in Santiago), but that really is a bridge to nowhere that looks nice from the malecón. Cars can't even cross that thing.

 

[cavok]

I think transit times on that detour did improve (at least mid-day) but were still pretty long during morning and evening rush-hour traffic. I feel sorry for anyone who has to travel back and forth to Puerto Plata much.

 

[windeguy]

Is it official they will build the new bridge in the exact same location as the old one requiring the detour to be in effect for many months?

The first plan stated by the government was to build a new bridge in parallel with the old one and then take the old one down, but perhaps they are now going back on that. Going with the original idea would mean some houses and businesses would be demolished.

 

[chico bill]

I worked on several bridges in Saudi Arabia. We poured some precast girders to span a sea water canal almost as wide as the span over that river.
or they could use long pre-cambered steel girders.
Pour the abutments and with a heavy set of cranes (maybe unavailable in DR) then lift them onto the abutments and do a high early strength concrete or a metal grating deck.
It is the the of thing done fairly quickly elsewhere
We know it will take ~12 months here (no matter what they promise) for what could be done in a 2 months elsewhere.
Imagine the disruption to Puerto Plata/North Coast commerce and tourism.

Oh well less gas spent going to Jumbo and dinner in Puerto Plata
Stock up early

 

[chico bill]

Is it official they will build the new bridge in the exact same location as the old one requiring the detour to be in effect for many months?

The first plan stated by the government was to build a new bridge in parallel with the old one and then take the old one down, but perhaps they are now going back on that. Going with the original idea would mean some houses and businesses would be demolished.

Did you see an article about it ?

 

[NALs]

That was before this.

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Colapsa el puente Pontón-La Vega; se desborda el río Yuna y aeropuertos reanudan operaciones - Propuesta Digital

Santo Domingo, 19 sept - El puente seco en la Autopista Duarte, en el tramo Pontón- La Vega, colapsó la tarde de este lunes, aunque estaba cerrado desde

lapropuestadigital.com

It's fresh in the minds of the MOPC.

The collapse of that bridge is probably for the better of many expats. The alternative would be for the Cangrejo bridge to collapse... while an expat or two is crossing it. Then DR1 will real,y hear about this.


The new bridge will most likely be a simple nothing to write home about bridge, but given that area is within a tourist zone the new bridge should be a mini this.

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El Puente del Caballo Blanco, en Wembley, Londres

www.tcbolts.com

Oh well. Most of the "cool looking" bridges in the DR are not in the nothern part of the country. In fact, now that I think of it the "coolest" bridge in the Cibao is the Hermanos Patiño in Santiago. Get this, that too was built by Trujillo (well, he paid for it, it was really designed and built by Americans).

Ok, and the one in Samaná built by Balaguer (and the pedestrian bridge by UTESA on Sadhalá also in Santiago), but that really is a bridge to nowhere that looks nice from the malecón. Cars can't even cross that thing.

Regarding the replacement, not what I would had liked since it seems will not have any architectural feature that will make it a landmark, but can't complain of what has been do so far. Instead of two parallel bridges (one for each direction), now is one wide bridge that will accommodate the six lanes of the Duarte Highway expansion.

I guess this bridge will be open to traffic before the year is over.

They have work to do on the so many other bridges along the Duarte Highway (the most important in the DR) to accommodate the two extra lanes.

I might not be too far fetch to assume the new Cangrejo bridge will be similar to the new one in La Vega, but less wide.

 

[JD Jones]

For a country that isn't investing anything in infrastructure, there sure is a lot of infrastructure projects going on.

 

[bachata]

The roads are in great conditions in DR, I was surprised that I was getting lost at some intersection because even the caminos vecinales in some communities lexample Santo Cerro La Vega están asfaltados...
SAJOMA too.

JJ

 

[JD Jones]

Wait! More infrastructure projects for next year! How can this be in a country that doesn't invest in infrastructure projects???

2 new bridges, the tunnel below Pinturas, and 17 new dams.

 

[bachata]

Cuatro años más y después hablamos!

JJ

 

[NALs]

Well, the one in La Vega was inaugurated by President Luis Abinader. How long it took to built from the moment of the collapse of the old one? Is this how the new El Cangrejo bridge will look like (not as wide)?

 

[Northern Coast Diver]

Looks good! The collapse just happened in September.

 

[cavok]

Looks good! The collapse just happened in September.

They built that bridge in one month? Sounds impossible.

 

[Manuel01]

Wow !!! You can say whatever you want but the timeframe this bridge was build is incredible.

 

[CristoRey]

They built that bridge in one month? Sounds impossible.

Indeed.

 

[cavok]

Wow !!! You can say whatever you want but the timeframe this bridge was build is incredible.

What was the time frame then? It certainly wasn't in one month.

 

[Manuel01]

What was the time frame then? It certainly wasn't in one month.

Doesn't really matter. In the US it would have taken 2 years to build and in europe 3 years to get only the the permission to build.

 

[cavok]

Doesn't really matter. In the US it would have taken 2 years to build and in europe 3 years to get only the the permission to build.

The below collapse of the I-95 overpass in Philadelphia was rebuilt this year in 43 days: