Just released and posted, even though the 5-1/2 mile long new line has been in service for over 5 years:
http://youtu.be/tOqaB9je_O8 (9 mins. 07 secs.)
- Paul North.
6 year construction cycle
2 month actual track lying
Who says there isn’t enough regulations?
More specifically: 1 year for design, 3-1/2 years for approvals, authorizations, environmental impact statements permits, etc., and 1-1/2 years for the actual construction work - a lot of grading, bridges, and some trackwork = 6 years total, as I recall.
Lesson demonstrated by that (yet again): Start the engineering and permitting process way early !
- Paul North.
(?) I think, IIRC, we have a Poster in the area of this new NS line. [Kolechovskil]. I believe he has done a number of posts on traffic and thing relatig to the Shelocta Line(?) It woul be interesting to hear his take on the Constructioin video. [tup]
Paul, I have not been around any construction projects other than what I have read about them, and the convoluted hoops that now exist, placed in the various Critical Paths of practically all new construction projects. They add years and costly research projects to be accomplished (and paid for by the entities) that want or need specific projects.
Remember the TVA’s projected Tellico Dam in Tennessee vs. The Snail Darter? From the late 1970’s til in the 1980’s; There is no telling how much was spent trying to get that dam built and I think it was just abandoned(?) I know they gave up on a couple of Nuclear Power Plant projects as a result of the period and problems from that National Environmental Act.
In Shelby County ( Memphis area) the norther leg of the City’s by-pass rout was held for a number of years while the envolvement of it’s rout through a patch of wetlands was mitigated in Courts. And the biggest one im my lifetime was the Brough Ha Ha over driving I-40 through Overton Park in Memphis. THAT project went on for over 20years, and made several lawyers wealthy while litigating that case; not to mention what it cost the State of Tenn fighting that one.
Those are just a minute few of the battles fought all over this country in defense of or fightiing all sorts of projects from one side or the other…I guess, I know, I am preaching to the choir of Engineers who pass by here.[sigh]