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Old 01-22-2008, 06:56 PM
 
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the way that Montrose Ave. totally broke today:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/supernerdgirl/montrosefail.jpg (broken link)
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Old 01-22-2008, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Guess that explains why they wouldn't let people turn west onto Montrose from Ashland today...
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Old 01-22-2008, 07:00 PM
 
Location: Hollywood/Brookfield, IL
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I didn't even hear about this and had to go look it up on the Tribune's website. Here's the article if anyone is interested: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...1,293457.story
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Old 01-22-2008, 07:02 PM
 
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Yeah! How ABOUT that? Nasty stuff.
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Old 01-22-2008, 07:50 PM
 
Location: outer boroughs, NYC
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This happens like once or twice a year in NY. There was an explosion in Midtown Manhattan over the summer and people temporarily thought it was the terrorist apocalypse or something....some people actually got hurt, it was a little scary.
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Old 01-22-2008, 09:56 PM
 
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You can't see it from the first picture posted, but that sinkhole pretty much swallowed most of the width of Montrose. It's a pretty big, nasty deal on a fairly busy, quasi-arterial street. This'll take a while to repair...
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:09 PM
 
Location: Loss Wages
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Wow, I did not know about that. It's amazing the damage it did to the street let alone the buildings near by. Gosh, what a mess right in January!
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:44 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Cool Pic. I actually heard about it in the morning. I drove over there while working to see how much I could see. I didnt think it was that bad. The city might as well replace the whole main from Ashland to Damen now. It would make sense. They will have to do it in the next few years anyway.
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Old 01-23-2008, 12:26 PM
 
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This is actually quite chilling. How many other 100-year-old 36 inch water mains are there in this city? Our infrastructure is a ticking time bomb. I suspect we'll see a lot more of this in the next twenty years, and we won't always be so lucky that no one gets hurt.
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Old 01-23-2008, 12:50 PM
 
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^ The paper said around 20% of the city's water mains are old cast-iron ones like this. They're currently replacing around 40 miles of them per year.
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