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#Lowell az highway underpass drivers#

We both had long careers, Dianne in Human Resources and Steve as Branch Manager for a controls systems wholesaler.

In 1990 we built our dream home in North Saanich just north of Victoria BC on 1.21 acres. Victoria, BC, Canada We married in 1982 and our sons, Rob and Chris were born in 19. Just a short distance along the highway, there was a large viewing area overlooking Lavender Pit, so we pulled in there for a look. Luckily when Steve got back into the truck, I guess the transmission had reset, because it started.whew! What the heck was that all about? Steve had slowed down as he tried to get his camera lens brush out of his pocket.perhaps his knee had knocked the key and accidentally turned off the truck? Anyway it's been running fine ever since.

#Lowell az highway underpass drivers#

So here we are blocking all traffic on the ramp.sheesh! Steve put the 4-way flashers on and got out to talk to the drivers behind us. To top it off, it was stuck in first gear and Steve couldn't get it into neutral.so it wouldn't start. Well.we had just made our down the hill and turned onto the the on-ramp for hwy 80 when all of a sudden Buster stalled. After that, we'll take a drive through Old Bisbee before heading out on foot. They had really liked it.so we thought we'd go check it out. Friends, Jim and Barb, mentioned it to us. We thought we'd start by driving a short distance south to Lowell.a spot we had never heard of. Retrieved Octo– via were excited to get out and start our tour of Bisbee, so at about 9:30 we were ready to get started.

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In 1999 it was proposed that the underpass was too narrow, and that it should be demolished, and a new bypass created. O'Connell remarked, "This underpass is one of the outstanding works of its kind not only in Arizona but in the entire Southwest." It functioned unaltered through the 1990s. At the opening ceremony, state highway engineer T. When the underpass was opened it was met by great fanfare from the town. When the underpass was completed, it marked the final grade-crossing to be done away with on the cross-country US 80. He completed the structure by November at a cost of $122,687 (equivalent to $1.91 million in 2021 ), and the underpass was officially opened on November 7, 1936. Casson, a contractor from Phoenix, Arizona. Funded by monies from the 1935 federal relief bill, construction began in March 1936 by Jack A. Construction required just under 300 cubic yards (230 m 3) of concrete and over 300,000 pounds (140,000 kg) of reinforced steel. In 1935 the underpass was engineered by the Arizona Highway Department, as a two-span reinforced concrete slab.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1988. Highway 80 (US 80) to pass under the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks in 1936. The Douglas Underpass is a concrete underpass in Douglas, Arizona, allowing U.S.