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Flyover construction at MoPac/290 shut down
By Ben Wear | Monday, July 18, 2011, 10:30 AM
Construction of two flyover bridges at the MoPac Boulevard/U.S. 290 interchange shut down last week after the contractor walked off the job, a TxDOT spokesman says.
Wiser Construction, based in Las Vegas, Nev., left the job site, TxDOT spokesman John Hurt said. It will be the responsibility of a bonding company to bring on a replacement and finish the job, which was to have been done by December. How long a delay will this cause?
“Couldn’t even make an educated guess,” Hurt said.
Wiser earlier had to tear down and rebuild a pillar that will support one of the new bridges. Is there any reason to doubt the quality of the numerous pillars already constructed and left behind by Wiser?
“No,” Hurt said. “TxDOT inspectors have been on the job the whole time. That’s how we caught the problem with the column.”
The $8.4 million job, which the City of Austin is paying for and will be reimbursed for over the next 10 years or so by TxDOT, involves adding direct connection bridges from northbound MoPac to eastbound U.S. 290 and from westbound U.S. 290 to southbound MoPac.