JakesKTM
Well-known member
The 580 project is on the books and in the works, but you have to realize how herculean these projects are. They take YEARS just to plan and allocate funding, let alone execute. The contract process alone can take two years with all the terms and specifications worked into them. These contracts are thousands of pages! I certainly had no clue before coming to work for Caltrans how big these Interstate projects are. They are on par with dam building. They are expensive and logistically difficult. 580 is in a major corridor to boot and you are talking about shutting it down, but believe me Caltrans is least concerned with that.
Asphalt Concrete (AC) is built offsite in slabs several feet thick for major projects. You are talking about a massive amounts of concrete poured several feet thick in places. The reason they started making the slabs offsite was because there wasn't enough concrete trucks and pumpers that could transport that amount of concrete into one pour and the concrete was going bad at the site as it sat and waited to be poured.
I now understand why these big projects take years and years just to execute.
