Love a big company that loves to add a bit of humor in there vids

while visiting my Ballard Food Bank today 8/19/24 around 11:30 AM an employee of DOT came in and got a to go bag, usually these are for the homeless. Why do you allow this? They are working just south of the food bank. I find it insulting and very wasteful.

too bad they didnt rebuild the wooden trestle but i understand why

If you keep putting roundabouts in, more effort to educate drivers about how to navigate them will be needed. People are clueless. I see folks in the circle stopping to play "go, no you go".

I remember this disaster and, living close-by in the Twin Cities, I remember the Interstate 35 bridge collapse disaster. What these two disasters have in common is the incredibly short amount of time it took to build replacement bridges.

lets cover da paint w MOR paint! Genius!

1:43 @WSDOT, any chance could you add a new staircase on the west side of the Elm Street cul-de-sac (left side of the video) to directly connect the west crosswalk to the top of the new pedestrian ramp? I know it wouldn't be ADA accessible, but for the vast majority of people who are able-bodied, that would be a nice shortcut for people to use as opposed to the long out-of-the-way ADA accessible ramp that connects to the east crosswalk. As long as you provide an additional step up at the top of the staircase it should prevent those in wheelchairs or with canes from mistaking the stairs for an accessible route. Though I'm sure if you don't build stairs there, most people will still cut through that section because it's the most convenient and easiest route for them to get to and from downtown.

Couldn't they have less paving to connect the instead of the huge amount now? Where are the bioswales to handle rainwater runoff. Bioswales look better than retention and detention ponds because they maje better use of space and incorporate biome-appropriate plantings instead of being an ugly fenced structure or something else that looks stuck into place...

I love stories like this. When u get the govt to move or get out of the way shit gets done. Think about WW2 and huge amount that got built in this country. This nation can get it done when u get the govt out of the way. Think about that when u vote this fall.

Well done

Well done!

0:54 is the car going the wrong way?

It took 3 months to do the one I used to live near

Encountered this tunnel 1st time as a tourist. It's not specified before the tunnel that tourists can use it and get mailed a bill.

Amazing what can be accomplished when graft and bickering are put aside.

I'm sure the Carbonado bridge will be fixed next month. The most diverse and competent WSDOT in history!

Не было бы счастья, да несчастье помогло... Если б не пожар, так и гоняли б поезда по старому деревянному (не думаю, что машинисты были в восторге, проезжая по нему).

Man vs Fire, fire takes the L

WI-no-NAH not WHY-no-NAH

WSDOT, just makes driving more confusing, that's why I stay in Cowlitz county.

Makes me think of a diverging diamond, but idk if this functions the same

Why can't government work this fast all the time?

Funny how sometimes we can do these jobs fast, others take years

Wow!

So you are saying that it can be done as long as the government wants to. And thus all the projects that are stuck in limbo are just ones that the government doesn't want?

In South Africa nothing will happened they cot nothing between the ears.

2 months ! Thats not how it's done. You need years of planning, meetings, overcharging, payoffs, human rights advocates, hiring quotas, bureau of land management ( BLM), and for gods sake don't forget protecting the spotted willy worm.

As a retired Bridgeman, we rebuild Bayou Canot bridge in 9 days basically the same way. It was the worst derailment involving Amtrak so far.

Nice!

This is how American and Americans are meant to be.

Ah you think you guys could come to Baltimore and build the Key bridge ? So we don't have to wait four years.

Wow

WOW, outstanding job guys, way to get shit done and keep this country going, ‘Merica! (Watching from Florida).

oh look another example of "if you dont schedule maintenance, the machines will do it for you at vastly increased cost." had the bridge been replaced in the off season as preventative maintenance, it wouldn't have needed to be replaced at the most inconvenient time imaginable. steel and concrete dont burn.

Why can’t this be the norm for replacing existing highways or bridges? The graft, regulation and corruption are astounding.

How can the STATE OF WASHINGTON , own anything...... It's a Fiction . ..... Seek and ye Shall find .

Fantastic job folks🇺🇸👍

Now then need to build more grain elevators.

perfect

too bad all construction can't be this efficient.

Arson is not global warming

But how did they fabricate, cast and cure the concrete to usable level in such short order? Is there someone who has them in stock ?

Glad to see this railroad is back up and running. At least when the fire happened, it allowed the construction crew to build a new and stronger bridge to replace the old wooden one. Who knows how long that wooden bridge has been there. It's also impressive to see how little time it took to build the new bridge.

Awesome story! This basically shows the impact of bureaucracy… turning 24 months into 2. The governor should declare a state of emergency to allow rehab of the ferry Hyak and put it back in service…. and to get the planned new ferries built quickly. There are a lot of places the money can come from like our carbon tax on fuel among other taxes.

Fantastic news, the bosses got it right

Washington state ferries, you need to have another ferry on the Port Townsend - Coupeville, and Seattle - Bremerton, routes. The wait time when I recently went on Port Townsend Coupeville had a long wait each way.

Doing it fast is a problem because it’s so much cheaper. Material is cheaper now than it will be tomorrow. And labor hours are the same whether you have 10 guys working 1000 hours or 100 guys working 100 hours. People think it costs more to do it fast. But it mostly, it’s just companies wanting to drag the project out forever so they can charge cost overruns and overtime labor. It’s not “Americans putting their minds to it” it’s just what should be done in every project. We have plenty of stuff that needs to be done NOW. Every project should be done with the same sense of urgency, that how you advance PAST where you are now, instead of just working to stand still.