south Liberty Street Drama

[downtownbrown]

apparently FDOT is in the process of revamping the program, but PW did say they took it off the list.

[thelakelander]

Perhaps it will be added back since a portion of the bridge is now sitting in the river?

[downtownbrown]

Perhaps.  But who knows what timeframe they would select?  My guess is the loss of those bridges is permanent.

[downtownbrown]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/robotic-cameras-aid-in-liberty-street-inspection/31194436

should be a fun City Council meeting.

[downtownbrown]

Remember these words from the 2013 bridge inspections of both Liberty Street and Coastal Drive:

"...BASICALLY INTOLERABLE REQUIRING HIGH PRIORITY OF CORRECTIVE ACTION".

...and yet we couldn't get the original hole repaired...

[120North]

The city owns the bridges...  They are off system bridges in the FDOT's parlance.  When the sufficiency rating of an off system bridge falls below a specific number, the FDOT uses funds to work on the replacement.  Understand that most off system bridges are small puddle jumpers and don't require millions to replace.  This project is just too big to fit into that program.

[Charley]

City will have power back on at Liberty Street townhomes in 14 days

Feb 12, 2015, 8:17pm EST Updated: Feb 13, 2015, 9:58am EST
   


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The city of Jacksonville will pay the entire cost of restoring power to the Liberty Street residents who have been without power for two weeks following the collapse of the road on Feb. 1

Under the emergency purchasing power, the city is taking immediate action to expedite power on a permanent basis for residents in as early as 14 days — a process that could take up to 180 days under normal circumstances, mayoral spokesman David DeCamp said during a press conference.


The city has setup a liaison for townhome residents to claim expenses incurred, such as temporary housing, during the blackout. The repairs are estimated to cost less than $200,000, DeCamp said.


The action avoids the need for temporary generator power and moves straight to a permanent solution, Public Works Director Jim Robinson said.


"All along since the collapse [the city] has been working diligently toward a solution," DeCamp said. "We want to help the residents and we will restore connections."

Without the city's financial help, the residents at the Riverwalk Townhomes at the Plaza said they do not have the resources to cover both a temporary power restoration and a permanent fix.


The first step to bringing the power back online will be to hire a contractor. JEA will fly in two transformers by helicopter on Sunday or Monday, Robinson said. "Then, we'll start on the conduit work so that we're done by the time the new meter centers arrive."


After power to the homes is restored, the city will begin the longer process of repairing the hole in Liberty Street.

[120North]

Not sure if anyone has noticed or not but the intersection of Market St. and Coastline Drive is also in motion. A dip in the bricks has appeared over the past few months. This is right where they had to make emergency repairs in 2007.

Photos from January 2007:

The repairs were made between Market and Newnan near the three large mooring dolphins in 2007.  There was also a repair made midway between Market and Liberty on Coastline drive.  That was another collapse that happened in 2006/2007.  There have been 4 distinct collapses since 2006.  If there is movement at Market, that might make 5....

[Steve]

Stating the obvious, but how many band-aids are we going to put on this thing? I think it's obvious the whole thing needs to go. Ensure access to the Berkman Garage and Hyatt drop-off loop (which might be able to be accomplished by closing coastline drive and accessing from Market and Newnan) and call it a day.

[downtownbrown]

The city owns the bridges...  They are off system bridges in the FDOT's parlance.  When the sufficiency rating of an off system bridge falls below a specific number, the FDOT uses funds to work on the replacement.  Understand that most off system bridges are small puddle jumpers and don't require millions to replace.  This project is just too big to fit into that program.

clearly.  Now it's just a matter of how long it takes for someone with the political courage to call it what it is, and get on with the demolition.  I hope it's soon, but I doubt it.  No money.

[downtownbrown]

for all of you concerned citizens, the Riverwalk Townhomes finally had power restored today.  im guessing that's a record outage. 

[TheCat]

Channel 4 reporting that repairs are "one step closer"

The area collapsed into the St. Johns River more than two months ago. It was the second collapse of the road over the past three years.

The original collapse, which happened in April 2012, was never fixed.

The first collapse was determined to be the fault of a contractor using a 12-ton crane to clean the Berkman Plaza's windows, but the city allocated $750,000 for those repairs. Repair work was set to start on that when the latest collapse happened.

On Tuesday, City Councilwoman Lori Boyer introduced an emergency bill that would reallocate money from that $750,000 to move ahead with a necessary assessment of the damage from the second collapse.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/liberty-street-repairs-moving-forward/32379880

[Tacachale]

It's good to see that someone, at least, is finally working to clean up this debacle.

[Lunican]

So in two weeks they will vote on a bill to appropriate money for the assessment of the damage.

[Tacachale]

#nextlevel, baby.