Monday, November 26, 2012
The last of three bridges over the C&O Canal is now complete.
Traffic once again has access to 29th Street between K and M Streets, NW. Construction on the 29th Street bridge over the C&O Canal mid-block has finally come to an end, nearly two years after the street first closed to traffic Feb. 17, 2011. The 29th Street bridge is the last of three bridges over the C&O Canal that were part of the $6 million Three Bridges Project, which began in August 2009. Work on the 30th Street bridge lasted about 11 months and Thomas Jefferson Street bridge took eight months. The entire Three Bridges Project was predicted to take 1,098 days or about three years from the notice to proceed date, which was June 26, 2009. The project should have wrapped up in summer 2012. Mike Gales, the project engineer for DDOT, …
Monday, November 12, 2012
The project has closed 29th Street to through-traffic since February 2011.
The 29th Street Bridge process is nearing completion as crews begin milling and paving this morning. It is the final of three C&O Canal bridges to undergo extensive renovations since the projects began in August of 2009. Friday, Project Engineer Mike Gales emailed residents and businesses nearby to alert them about the construction, which begins Monday at 7:30 a.m. The construction zone will be from the south end of the Engineeers Outlet building (1048 29th St. NW) to the south side of the Colonial Parking Garage entrance, which is just north of the bridge. In a previous email about paving and milling, Gales wrote: "We will have several pieces of heavy equipment and dump trucks both removing the old asphalt and bringing new material in. …
Monday, August 27, 2012
Project on final of three C&O Canal bridges being replaced won't be finished until October
Th 29th Street bridge over the C&O Canal will likely wrap up by late October, several months behind schedule, due to complications with utility work. The $6 million Three Bridges Project began in August 2009 and the 29th Street bridge was originally scheduled for completion in January 2012, and then July 2012, before its new end date of October. Mike Gales, the project engineer for DDOT, told Patch in an email relocating utilities during construction has taken longer than expected. "The planned duration was 9 months and it has taken longer than anticipated to move the utilities. Utilities are deep and relocations have been difficult due to lack of space to build new infrastructure while maintaining the existing electric, gas, phone, cable …
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Monday, June 27, 2011
The 29th Street Bridge over the C&O Canal is the final of the three bridges being replaced.
Work continues to progress on the 29th Street Bridge over the C&O Canal, the third of the $6 million Three Bridges Project to undergo construction since work began in August 2009. Unlike its counterparts, the 30th Street Bridge and Thomas Jefferson Street Bridge, the third phase is complicated and will require the full time estimate, through July 2012. Work on the 30th Street bridge lasted about 11 months and Thomas Jefferson Street bridge took a mere eight months. "I think a lot of people in the community were very optimistic that we could finish the project early," said Mike Gales, the project engineer for RK&K. "We were hoping, but I don't think that will happen...it's gotta be done in phases," said Gales about this, the third bridge. "…
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Zachary J Rodman
2:06 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
As a previous commenter stated, this is a farce and a classic DC boondoggle. There is no way on Earth that bridge of this size should take nearly two full years to complete. Sixty years ago, a team of high-school educated twenty-somethings could build a bridge at night over an actual moving body of water in a matter of days or hours...while being shot at by Nazis! I work in Georgetown and what I … more ›