After the Blanco River Memorial Weekend flood

TXDOT rebuilt the Fischer Road bridge in record time, reconnecting the 40+ mile detoured community.It opened Friday
My last update was #35 -JAN 24th...wish all projects moved this fast!

http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/98618841-story




I rode across it twice Saturday passing a lot of happy folks along this very missed route.

The RM 165 bridge outside Blanco isn't far behind.

That's impressive progress for just over a month since the last pics you had. Were there crews working more than normal workday hours?

ducster said:

That's impressive progress for just over a month since the last pics you had. Were there crews working more than normal workday hours?

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I was told they went to 24hour 6 day mode the Monday after that January update.
A guy we talked to who can see the bridge said it looked like ants when they were tying steel for the deck and was done in a few days. Large crews as I bet there was an incentive clause. Was projected to be finished in May

another update



This bridge on Stagecoach road ,part of old Camino Real north of San Marcos, was washed out during the big flood on the Blanco river. It had a temporary deck made out of flat top rail cars for far to long. It was a slippery ride when wet! I only needed to slide once and I avoided it afterwards

They finally opened this new but low replacement about a month ago. I suppose the height was determined by the existing RR structure. This will be over run during a big rain, but nice the rest of the time. This time of year, the river is almost non existent as we have not had the typical rains by now.