• Gork@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Why make that turn like that? Wouldn’t grading the hill and building the road directly on the ground be cheaper and more practical than building an elevated highway?

    • cabbage@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      It’s probably steeper than it looks. Digging the road into the terrain would leave you with a huge wall facing the hill, prone to landslides and avalanches. It might also not work very well with where the road is coming from and where it’s going. I imagine it could prove challenging to keep open at all during winter due to avalanches and risk thereof.

      Digging/bombing out a bunch of the mountain is also not particularly cheap, and it might be unpopular for the permanent damage it does to the mountain as well.

      Might be other reasons as well, but that’s what I could think of.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Yep. Only hills and mountains in America I’ve seen the interstate plow through are rock on both sides.

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    2 months ago

    Do you have a more precise location? I’ll actually be in that area soon and it’d be fun to drive.

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    1 month ago

    I like how they built around the hill rather than into it, unlike you would see in the US.

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    2 months ago

    Love to visit, but places like that scare the shit out of me. I’m a total flatlander. Born and raised in Tulsa, lived in Chicago and now Florida, flattest state in the Union.

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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      2 months ago

      Mountainfolk hours 💪💪💪💪💪

      I still can’t look at a flatlander horizon without feeling like I’m going to fall into some infinite void.