Gilmer/Fairfield Update #4

Did a quick ten-miler on the bike and checked out the progress on the intersection reconstruction on the ride. The I-beams have been installed to carry Gilmer over Fairfield and it appears the rebar work is nearly done, so I imagine concrete will be poured soon. Then they have to frame and pour the approaches on each side of the bridge deck. This shot looks east over the new overpass deck.



Fairfield is done. This shot looks south at the Fairfield underpass. The curbing is in along the walls, blacktop is down, and the gravel shoulders are completed. In fact, I saw a pickup truck drive around the "Road Closed" barricades on Fairfield, then up the ramp to Gilmer, and head west on Gilmer, again onto the shoulder around the barricade. Hopefully, the job will be done soon and we'll all be able to safely and legally do the same drive.