March 2019 - Part 2

Here is a recent picture of the area between the north and south bound lanes of 295 where the start of the new mainline overpass will eventually begin.

You can see the sides of the overpass where it goes over the tunnel, I have marked these in blue. This gives you an idea of home the end of the overpass will shaped and link up with the rest of the road.

Work also continues over the tunnel on the noise barrier along the cemetery. 

March 2019 - Part 1

There has been a lot of work going on over the past few weeks. First is the tunnel to North bound 295. A few weeks ago the lanes from from 76 East were routed into the tunnel along with the ones coming from 42 North. This is a much better traffic pattern then it was with just the lanes from 42. There are not five lanes going into the tunnel which merge down to four just after. The traffic lights will normally be green and will only be changed if there is a need to close one of the lanes in the tunnel..

Here is the inside of the tunnel where you can see the large number of lights on the wall. The number of lights in use varies with the time of day.

Here is the exit of the tunnel. You can also see the rock that has been put on the slope below the cemetery and the finished retaining wall capped off with a fence.