Sugar Land road construction to slow travel, Brazos River threatening bridge
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- New road construction is about to slow drivers using the Southwest Freeway at Brazos River in Sugar Land. FOX 26's Tom Zizka has more on how the river is threatening the bridge.
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That turnaround under the bridge has been closed since 2017 when Hurricane Harvey hit.
They better do something that’s so scary and it would be tragic if people drown if that bridge collapses
ummm yah. they are, that’s why they said in the video parts of it are already closed. And they’ve been closed since Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which started this in the first place.
Thank You For Sharing This Report !! Expect Even More Traffic In Sugar Land.
So Glad I don't have to drive over that bridge!!!
Failure of design. Why TDOT did not understand should be revied harshly.
By the time they finish they'll be having to redo it again... Didn't they just widen it a few years ago??? Why didn't they fix it then?
Ok. The road is not very old. Whom messed up about the physics of the Brazos River?
no one. this is partially an extenuating result from Hurricane Harvey back in 2017. If you remember how bad everything flooded, well so did the Brazos and they already did another bridge a couple miles north on 99 at New Territory subdivision. Hurricane Harvey Floods massively, massively eroded the pilings and they had to redo that bridge immediately after Harvey because it was dangerous. So, only nature. The power of natural disasters did it. But it’s just gotten worse and worse. The part that they showed in this video, that had the collapsed road, was a part of the old part of the bridge that had been there since the 1970s. I grew up in a subdivision one mile from there. 59 was 59 before they changed it to 69. The far right and far left sides of that bridge are actually they original bridges from the 2 lane 59 highway before they expanded it to 6 lanes and built the new 6 lane bridge in between or 4 lanes whatever the new middle main bridge is. Just nature and powerful flows of water doing what they do and it was not an engineering designing fault
further, as the reporter did say, water seeks its own course. and the Brazos is all mud. There are some interesting publicly available studies on erosion in the Brazos river. It literally changes course every 50 or hundred years due to, the whole thing in Sugar Land being mud and sand and, regardless of how much concrete and steel you put it in, erosion is inevitable and not avoidable. However, if you must, you could blame the engineers for not factoring in a Hurricane Harvey level event, which “fast forwarded” and intensified the erosion underneath the bridges.
ahhh man they gonna do it now. Totally necessary though. This is partially a lasting impact from Hurrican Harvey floods back in 2017. Which really reaaaally eroded the pilings. They already had to do this to the bridge on 99 Grand Parkway at New Territory subdivision when Harvey flood almost took out the pilings on that bridge. It was so bad that they fixed that one right after Harvey.
What a money laundry scheme!!! Where these “engineers” graduated from?? 😮😮
actually no. It’s an ongoing and extenuating result of the Hurricane Harvey natural disaster which “fast forwarded” and greatly intensified the very much well known erosion factors that the engineers definitely did design and build for. All these comments in this video… it’s like people forgot about how bad Hurricane Harvey floods were already. That’s what started it.
@@nozrep Make sense.
Dangerous times 😢
I literally take this bridge every day anyone have tips?
Meanwhile, #lousyana cannot afford to replace the desperately obsolete I-10 bridge in Lake Charles... so guess what?! 99 year lease to a private, Saudi toll concessioner to build and toll a replacement!
Isn't #lousyana grande?!
Just close it indefinitely until it’s fixed have people find a different route
You must not be from this area. This is the major freeway from Houston to the Valley, Mexico and Southwest Houston suburbs. There’s no other road that can handle the volume of traffic crossing this river. There’s not many bridges across the Brazos coming from Houston