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I remember driving through Wyoming and wondering what those were for. Well, it was the middle of summer. 😊

I am honestly quite surprise that WyDot, was able to get this temporary option of a road open so quickly. I imagined the normal Department of Transportation steps of bureaucracy it usually takes for Federal & State government to build a road in the U.S. The whole process of getting X amount of bids, voting, engineering, safety. I was sadly expecting this to take years. However, I am happy for the daily commuters who rely upon this pass daily from Idaho Falls to Victors, Driggs to Jackson Hole, and the rest of Wyoming. Alot of Wyoming folks do their Doctors appointments, shopping and important stuff in Southeastern state of Idaho. Good Job!

I hate the wind in Cheyenne 😢 I would like move for another state

But is the continuous monitoring equipment even installed? If not when will it be installed. WYDOT is very vague on details.

Dang! Go WY-O!

0:44 continuous monitoring instruments: ground-based radar, piezometer, inclinometer

What about a bridge to eliminate that horseshoe? make 22 go in a straight line or is it a big climb that needs mileage.

The reason for the rush is the town full of billionaires needs their cheap help to drive in 30+ miles.

We need to start hiring people that are from the industries that they will be in charge of and not because of who their boyfriend is.

The less I'm reminded Buttigieg was paid off with tax dollars by the Democrats to do nothing for years, the happier I'll be. When the nation needed leadership, he took 'paternity leave'.

You broadcast about that person's visit? Why? That guy is lucky to know what a car is let alone good national transportation policies.

Doug McGee is a legend!

He doesn't know jack about Wyoming. He doesn't know jack about transportation. He doesn't know jack about biology. I bet everyone there was a government employee or a media shill.

Why?

Pete is a joke .

40000/365= 109.59. He just counted people in the first and business class on that plane

That entire road is built on a sandbar load of fill!

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"a rapid response is critical" but a "rapid response to rebuild immediately" is reckless and just plain old greedy to all the people who live there, travel to work through there etc. to not make darned sure through ALL exhausted methods to make this all right and properly done to ensure that a lawsuit doesn't come to play later. Trust me when I say lots of people are watching this play out and many people are seeing the light when comes to what's what. Js. Better make sure everything is SOUNDPROOF before you reopen the section of the pass. And maybe a lowered vehicle weight limit and axles allowed per vehicle temporarily for first month or so just to let it all properly get settled in place before the big rigs etc come plowing through there. 🤷🏻

This section isn't the only spot on this side of the pass that is failing. Another spot just below the top on this same side has been moving for years too. It's not a matter of if, but when. I traveled Teton pass daily for many years. I was born and raised in Jackson. I remember the old timers saying that this road was too steep.

Road work at night 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Road work at night 😂😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Nice to see you move so fast. May not be the perfect end solution but it will open the road while you work on that. Good work!

Thanks to all of you !!! ( tell that WYDOT a guy ‘Cronin ‘ to get to work )

...and ALWAYS BUCKLE UP. You're gonna need it when sliding down the second time.

Why are you ignoring soil stability concerns? There is no way you have done enough testing to be 100% certain that the temporary bypass you are rushing to build is safe! Safe construction of mountain roadways needs to have the proper established planning procedures completed before it commences. Video shows you failed to see the obvious signs that the big collapse was going to happen and let highway workers be in a dangerous area. This shows poor engineering judgment. Stop rushing this bypass construction until the proper geotechnical information has been gathered about the soil stability conditions below it and let the proper planning steps be done. Doing this in the yee haw cowboy get er dun quick way you are is going to risk the public's safety!

Some question the soil stability of this Big Fill area

A tw*t..... This kid is an idiot.... And knows it....

Great¿!..... More armed idiots.... Too stupid to maintain real employment

I just drove across 80 from SLC and the interstate in parts of the far western end of the state is so bad that I drove in the passing lane instead of the right lane because the right lane was nothing but pot holes and missing a layer of pavement anywhere from a foot to 30, 40, 50’. The ass fault is breaking loose and separating in the center line of roadway for miles. I did however change lanes if someone was coming up from behind me to pass, but then I’d get back into the passing lane.(Also do this on I25 in the Glendo area) With that being said, there’s sections east of Laramie that get new asphalt every year. Explain the reasoning behind that. Is that where the DOT dumps leftover material when it could be put on the washboard Monument road at exit 329 where new asphalt was put down this year.

How in the actual F did that even happen?! WTF?

It seems to me that WyDOT is rushing into the "repair" of the Teton Pass embankment failure without allowing sufficient time to perform sufficient data collection and analysis of the situation. The previous WyDOT press releases indicates that the pavement cracking at mile post 12.8 was simply patched and reopened to traffic just prior to the catastrophic failure of the embankment. Had it not been for the mudflow near mile post 15, that road would have had traffic on it at the time of failure.

very odd to post this after the recent screw up on Teton Pass - you'd really think you guys would've added something in front of this one

@wydotvideos quick Bailey Bridge deployment incoming?

Easy for us keyboard warriors to second guess what was constructed in 1960-1961 as a fill slope. It worked for over 60 years. The fill will need to be replaced and with the advances in ego-sythetics along with drainage and compaction I am sure WYDOT will make good things happen in the future. It will be a challenge and certainly and inconvenience but in the end all will be good. My ancestors traveled the widened trail/road of 1901, the "Old Road" from 1918 to 1961, then the new road up until now. All were an improvement from the previous.

The penetration of water into all this fill material probably "caused" the slumping of huge portions of the fill. The fill looks poorly consolidated and consists primarily of finer material, like sand, which becomes easily saturated and then fails. Probably not well-engineered for Wyoming winters and rains.

I rather cross between intersections because i only need to check in 2 directions instead of 4

Sverdup, Inc. was contracted by BNRR to do a feasibility study to make a 42-mile extension of the Coalstrip Branch to a couple of proposed coal mines in the area South of Ashland, Montana along the Tongue River. The local county used 1:3 for cuts and fills so that is what we used for figuring cuts and fills in the existing ground without additional studies. The line was not built because of the economic downturn and the mines were not developed at that time. The railroad company was very pleased with our feasibility report of grades within 0.85% and 3* curves and one major bridge over the Tongue River North of Ashland.

This looks like it needs an entirely new route, bridges have to be supported on solid ground, so not sure if that is a solution over all that fill.

Trees go weeeee!

👍How did we ever live without drones?

I wonder if when they were building Teton Pass that this curve was manmade? Built up with unstable soil?

No casualties?

Why did you all remove the upper layer of soil and vegetation on the slope on the uphill side of the embankment? Were these efforts to try and identify the location of the slide scarp?

Best wishes for a long, safe, successful career!

Congratulations new Patrol Officers!!!

Ugh… not only did he and his whole family get killed in a drunk driving accident… they suffered the indignity of dying to a Ram driver

Did that kind of work for 45 years and loved it never a dull day .

Great news! I'm heading across with a light load in a conestoga trailer - absolute parachute in the wind! These videos are appreciated ...

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