Half Billion $$ Highway Project to Get You Home Faster
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
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The US 69 Express project is a joint venture between Ames Construction and Emery Sapp and Sons dedicated to building new express lanes outside Kansas City.
Once complete, people can pay to use the express lanes during peak hours, which will help get them home faster. To make it happen, they're moving over one million yards of earth, building new bridges, and relocating miles of utilities. - Věda a technologie
This is CRAZY, I drive this road literally everyday M-F and have been watching this project take place, SO cool to see a video on it!
haha that's awesome thanks for watching!!
I actually work for Emery Sapp and Sons it's a marvel what they are building!
Just add more lanes, it totally hasn't been tried before which lead to them realizing that you don't fix traffic by adding lanes. Hey this atleast makes more sense than claiming coal is better for enviroment than wood.
This is not transporting people too and fro within a city. This section of road is funneling people in and out of the Kansas side of Kansas City to very rural areas where they live 20, 30, 40 miles south of town. There will NEVER, EVER be anything resembling mass transit in that area for the next 100 years at a minimum.
just one more lane
After moving to south Florida and working on big road widening jobs ,I'm now retired and live in a smaller area in Central Florida. I'll never live where I have to sit in traffic when I want to go somewhere. I worked on the big bridge job in Moore Haven Florida where the first beam set across the inter - coastleway after being set fell onto the barge holding the other beams. What a mess. I was working for The Middlesex Company.
thanks for the work you put in
The Middlesex Company out of Mass ??
You should come to WA and check out the big I-90 realignment and widening project between MP 63 and MP 70, lots of rock blasting, dirt moving and fill.
sounds like my cup of tea
glad you were able to see the stuff happening on our highway, its pretty cool seeing the machines for the most part
Highway 69 is my favorite highway. Definitely a good experience
I was on that road with your mom. We turned off at exit 420 and cut down the Hershey highway.
ONE MORE LANE, ONE MORE LANE, ONE MORE LANE
Congratulations on 200k mate. Great channel. Thanks from New Zealand.
thanks for watching mate
One more lane bro
I would die doing this job lol. I already got knocked off the interstate once and i was only pulled over for like an hour and a half! Imagine a work day/week/year!
You should do a video on Georgia I-20 - 285 they just started a big new project there.
I am working on a Highway in phx Arizona. I am wheel loader operator it’s awesome
I just moved over to the oil industry from the heavy civil dirt world. These videos help scratch the dirt itch im already feeling. Keep up the awesome content.
sweet!!
I figured y’all would show up here in the metro sooner or later for this project.
Drilling and blasting fav part !
I drive through there frequently and am still trying to figure out what is happening. All that I can tell is that it is happening fast.
Edited to note that I remember when this section of US69 was still a two lane road running through all of the small town stoplights. 🤷🏻♂️
Hey I live in south overland Park and drive through it everyday. They work on it all the time day and night
Love your channel
You gotta come check out the highway 85 job in ND
I work for Twin K const. If you ever come by Knoxville, Tn you should check out our commercial job near watt rd. 4.5 million c.y of earth to move. Two 1200 excavators and a 990 loader with a bunch of 773's. Moving over 15,000 a day
Your videos are the BEST ……
thank you very much
4:30 are you wearing an Aussie shirt?
Love ya videos guys 🤘🏻
I bet there are 30-40 projects worth more than than 500mil in texas right now…
Any plans to profile the massive 400/285 project in Atlanta?
It's (without a doubt) the largest project in the city's history since Spaghetti Junction (85/285) or the Downtown Connector work done prior to the Olympics.
we just spoke to someone the other day about it!
as a nashvillian could u check out the i65 construction
Go to the mines in the elkvalley British Columbia. They are pretty nuts to see from the bottom of the mountain's. Big equipment in a beautiful place. Sad but it's normal after a bit.
funny we were supposed to go there next month but the visit got pushed
@AaronWitt this place has alot of history to it. Lots of old boys with some crazy stories, lots of equipment to show and some mountains that have been flattened. Crazy place to be
Great according to your title I have to drive 17 more hours out of my way just to get home “faster”
Come visit the KC Cat dealer sometime😊😊
first (just found you guys, love the content)
glad you found us thank you
Not in Massachusetts we don’t build more highways…. Just build more traffic jams.
Just one more lane
Shout-out to Eric Boal. He knows what he's had to go through for this project. A lot of long hours and deserve a nap once his work for this is done.
Nice shirt
I am driving ANCIN ✊
Dam u are good at Making vids
thank you
Just. One. More. Lane.
are you subsidised by a lobby of some sort ??
Aaron can we see you laying pipe or is that memebers only lol
100’ long, so… 27ish metres in length. 70000lbs, so, 32 ish tonnes.
Tiny beam in Aussie standards.
sorry to disappoint
Union?
No
Instead of widening the road so that there are no more traffic jams, they build a lane next to the traffic jam and then sell people an empty lane that they can use to avoid getting stuck in traffic jams. Absolutely uncivilized, I think . Money is uncivilized.
Ur a commie
The on ramps will still be two feet long causing slow down like before. But hey there is a new 7 mile stretch of crap that will need repaired in 8-10 years.
Awwwe a hype video to show investors. I'm so glad we are spending our funding wisely. I mean, 69 had so much traffic after all 👎.
It’s so disappointing that we never learn that adding more traffic lanes doesn’t help.
Cant get home faster if left lanners still blocking. Cant change with money with stupid.
Express lanes are a scam. Tax funded and then you're charged to use them.
A lot of them are now privately funded and the funding system for road construction is broken nowadays. All based on an antiquated gas tax
Gotcha, didn't know they changed to private funding.@@AaronWitt
@@AaronWittit’s more than that, the Highway Trust Fund has been looted by politicians who have used the funds for their own political purposes instead of reallocating the funds for projects as it was intended to do. The fund needs to be abolished and what the States bring in via Fuel Tax’s should stay in the State, NOT sent to the Federal Government to use at its own discretion. Why should taxpayers from ie Michigan pay for roads projects in California? They SHOULDN’T!
Car bad. Train good.
Why just now
Ewe r dum
Drive 20 miles out of your way in rural America to catch a 30 mile train ride?! 😃👍
@@daneclark3161 that used to be possible…
@@idcanthony9286 What happened 100+ years ago with a horse and buggy has no relevance in today’s world.
Foley still does it better
"they build more highways" instead of "build mass transit" :/
just one more lane bro trust me the katy freeway is the pinnacle of transport
Mass transit = Individuals herded into cattle cars on their way to the slaughter house! 👎
One more lane bro! This is the same guy that made a coal mining video and said coal is good for the environment
@@theparks6541 yeah i mean hes kinda paid to, and technically said its better for the environment than burning wood like they do a lot in developing countries
it's that easy huh
we need fying car
Toll lanes...in Kansas? To alleviate traffic?! There are 4 people and a cow. 500 million?! Um....what?!?!
We’re big money out here. Google Overland Park.
You’ve never traveled down 69 highway at 5pm and it shows.
6.5 million cows to 2.5 million people. The problem is that 25% of the state of Kansas lives in this county.
@@Weldpro2011thats the truth this 7 miles from 435 to 167th is a nightmare. And now its 100x worse
Incredible
I was just hired on 4 months ago with Kansas DOT as an Engineering Tech Associate I really love it I’m in Iola KS 66749 I’m going to show this to my district engineer totally wish I could meet you in person how much longer are you in Kansas?? Overland Park has big money 💰 I’m from Colorado and that says a lot