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Posted on 7/13/15 at 7:05 am
Posted on 7/13/15 at 7:05 am
Please dont be the first to wreck.
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Posted on 7/13/15 at 10:13 am to pioneerbasketball
Took a while, like all major projects do. The growth out that way demanded it.
Looking south down I-430
Looking south down I-430
This post was edited on 7/13/15 at 10:19 am
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:47 pm to WonderWartHawg
Looks good. Will help out big time with traffic in that area
Posted on 7/13/15 at 4:34 pm to pioneerbasketball
I see 2 of you guys already wrecked.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 4:43 pm to pioneerbasketball
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Please dont be the first to wreck.
I do what I want.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 6:14 pm to pioneerbasketball
OK time to start spending massive sums in NWA
Lol jk. AHTD is letting I-30 Bridge over Arkansas River. More investment in Central Arkansas
Lol jk. AHTD is letting I-30 Bridge over Arkansas River. More investment in Central Arkansas
Posted on 7/13/15 at 7:19 pm to Porker Face
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I-30 Bridge over Arkansas River.
That has got to be done, huge bottleneck during rush hours. Did I hear they are thinking 6 lanes for that corridor?
Posted on 7/13/15 at 7:35 pm to Hog Springs
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Looks good. Will help out big time with traffic in that area
Posted on 7/13/15 at 8:02 pm to WonderWartHawg
5 lanes each side
Do you know where else bottlenecks? I-49 between where the people live and headquarters for 3 of Arkansas's 6 Fortune 500 companies
Do you know where else bottlenecks? I-49 between where the people live and headquarters for 3 of Arkansas's 6 Fortune 500 companies
Posted on 7/13/15 at 11:22 pm to Porker Face
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Do you know where else bottlenecks? I-49 between where the people live and headquarters for 3 of Arkansas's 6 Fortune 500 companies
Yup. The 3 lanes on each side will help. But by the time it's done we will need 4. They should've just made the damn thing 4-5 lanes in each side and be set for a long arse time.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:15 am to Marty McFrat
Driving into LR just pisses me off. From Conway to LR it's 6 lanes the whole way and they're redoing all of the bridges and overpasses.
We can't get shite done up here where the infrastructure is always 20 years behind
We can't get shite done up here where the infrastructure is always 20 years behind
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:31 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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Driving into LR just pisses me off. From Conway to LR it's 6 lanes the whole way and they're redoing all of the bridges and overpasses.
We can't get shite done up here where the infrastructure is always 20 years behind
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:36 am to NCrawler
Not to mention most of the improvements they're doing now in LR should have been done 20 years ago.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:40 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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Do you know where else bottlenecks? I-49 between where the people live and headquarters for 3 of Arkansas's 6 Fortune 500 companies
No kidding, and it's getting freaking ridiculous. It's a wonder we don't have more accidents than we already do with those barricades creeping out into the left lanes on either side.
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Driving into LR just pisses me off. From Conway to LR it's 6 lanes the whole way and they're redoing all of the bridges and overpasses.
We can't get shite done up here where the infrastructure is always 20 years behind
It's like they're constantly late to the party on executing projects, and when they do, the planning is already outdated. I'm so glad that LR can consistently get these lane extensions with a stagnant population base while we've got transplants and growth coming out of our ears and can't even get 3 lane roads.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:26 pm to Feral
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stagnant population base
Still growing. MSA projected to be over 815,000 by 2020.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:35 pm to WonderWartHawg
That's cool. Hopefully they go full bore when they get to the 412/49 interchange, sometime around 2050.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 7:12 pm to WonderWartHawg
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Still growing. MSA projected to be over 815,000 by 2020.
Yeah LR is still growing as a metro.
A good comparison, though, is to look at the Little Rock metro as recently as the mid 1990s. 20 years ago, the Little Rock metro was pretty much the same as NWA is right now. LR had several freeways and connectors at that point in its history, essentially the same infrastructure it has right now, minus a few lanes added since then, and this new Big Rock interchange.
NWA has one freeway north and south. That's it. A 412 Bypass should have been done 10 years ago. It will be at least another 10 years before it is complete. By that time, NWA will probably have 600k people.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 9:35 am to wmr
If they ever finish I-49, Fayetteville folks will have a much easier drive to the Sugar Bowl, hopefully not having to stop at the Independence Bowl in Shreveport.
Posted on 7/15/15 at 8:39 pm to wmr
Posted on 7/15/15 at 10:26 pm to Ronaldo Burgundiaz
There were a lot of projects put on hold a couple of months ago (including overlaying the highway in front of my house). Not just NWA stuff. There's already a pseudo beltway around Little Rock with 30, 440, 40 and 430.
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