Charles River Crossing Project

[GMT 389]

oh my gosh

i'm stunned!

wonderfull work

[JCarter 0]

This is one of the best projects on ST!!!!

[shinkansen1 84]

Thou shalt upload this transition right now!!

[JCarter 0]

Let him take his time...

[Alfred.Jones 2]

This is increadable work!! Cannot wait for more

[shinkansen1 84]

JCarter: You've got so much patience, or do you? You're bottling up your thoughts, aren't you? Ha! You're just like me, right? You can't wait for it to come out, just like AlfredJones!

[Voulpiotis 4]

This project is really wonderful! It would be great if we see it one day in the STEX!

[josefmayor 8]

Blahdy you are freaking amazing!

I'm thinking about doing some of my own BATing with Transit Networks, but I'm not sure if I really want to.

In Tampa we have this really old historic hispanic district called Ybor, its home to the most amazing Cigars and liqour Tampa has to offer, and I-4 Runs through the center of it, well the thing is, the city was tired of having this ugly interstate go through it, so they put together a very expensive idea to dress it up and make it part of the architecture of Ybor. It's beautiful, although it's not completed yet (its almost done)

Here are the renderings:

[blahdy 21]

thanks all for comments!

josefmayor:  thanks;  that's awesome project you mentioned, i think you should BAT it, really

A few updates.. tunnel boat structure walls are getting more worked on, road concrete surface near the tunnel entrace is almost finished.

Additional pics, but nothing special.. click the url's below:

http://216.93.240.36/~blahdy/stex/big-dig-tunnel-portal/crcp/CTC15A2-00/93.jpg

http://216.93.240.36/~blahdy/stex/big-dig-tunnel-portal/crcp/CTC15A2-00/94.jpg

[Alfred.Jones 2]

That is sooooo amazing!!!!! I cannot wait........ The detail is just unbelievable!!

[JCarter 0]

Blahdy, I love how you give so much attention to detail!

[shinkansen1 84]

So tell me Blahdy, what's this thing's capacity? And will it transfer to a ground highway or elevated highway?

Sincerely, Mr. Big Chin  @ simtropolis.com.

[nycsc4 5,250]

amazing!! glad you see your back!

[schm0 27]

Um, maybe I'm just ignorant, but what program are you using to create and render that!?

[Tarkus 6,933]

Well, shinkansen1, if I'm not mistaken, it'll actually be transferring to the new Elevated RHW.

Looks awesome as always, blahdy. 

-Tarkus

[rickmastfan67 0]

Originally posted by: schm0 Um, maybe I'm just ignorant, but what program are you using to create and render that!?quote>

 

I remember in a post, I asked him the same question.  So, if I remember correctly, he's using 3dsMax 9.

[sebbyb07 2]

wow! thuis is really amazing work! and what did you mean by nothing special? its awesome

[tommiej 0]

looks very nice!! it looks realistic, as always

[bakercity 270]

it is more than awesome, it is great. I am waiting very impatient for this project to come out. Keep up the work blahdy.

[It 0]

This looks amazing, keep up the ever awsome work

[japamala 0]

when this is done, you should include renderings from all the traffic cameras.

just 'cause.

[lrfox 2]

@Bakercity- this is probably going to take a lonnnnnng time (Blahdy is quite the perfectionist if you couldn't tell already).

@ Blahdy... it looks awesome. did you hear about the tractor-trailer falling off of the Tobin ramp and onto an SUV

[blahdy 21]

lrfox: yea i heard, pretty bad and sad... it fell right off of Ramp C-T and landed on top of an SUV running down ramp N-S. This is the second time accident involving ramp C-T had occurred (the curved elevated viaduct connecting I-93 NBD to Route 1A bound for Tobin Br). What's worse is that the viaduct is double stack tall (2x taller than most fly-over interchanges in MA), so falling straight down from it is basically a fatal free-fall. An NH license plated car free-falled from this ramp to ground, the driver survived but unfortunately passenger died; this happened only a week or two ago i think, on 3/18. They might want to consider placing some heavy curve/caution signage on approach to that ramp.

[japamala 0]

in the accident with the trailer falling on the SUV, was everybody ok?

[lrfox 2]

Yeah i heard about that one too. it was on the 18th. The last report on the one today was that the Tractor Trailer driver had to be extracted from the cab and taken to the hospital with serious injuries. the SUV driver and Passenger escaped unharmed. actually, they walked away from the accident.

[daniel01 0]

looks very nice,

keep up the good work

daniel01

[simzebu 20]

Originally posted by: lrfox Yeah i heard about that one too. it was on the 18th. The last report on the one today was that the Tractor Trailer driver had to be extracted from the cab and taken to the hospital with serious injuries. the SUV driver and Passenger escaped unharmed. actually, they walked away from the accident.quote>

Freakin' lucky SUV people! I'd have thought they'd have been crushed, but they got VERY lucky! Hope the tractor trailer guy is okay...

[blahdy 21]

so actually, as it happened... The truck was merging onto I-93 SBD on ramp T-C, rolled to the left side of the ramp (apparently didn't do a thing to the concrete barriers other than slight scratches and totalled fence), ripping out a blue street light pole in the process. the light pole ripped off from ramp T-C fell on to ramp S-T below and whipped a black Sedan (passengers of the sedan were hospitalized with minor injuries as a result), then the tractor trailer plunged 50 ft, after hitting ramp S-T with the light pole, down to Leverett Connector southbound, which is ramp N-S at ground level.

so basically.. the truck hit every single ramp from top to bottom.. good thing no one died (and i hope it stays that way + get better for those hospitalized..).

[lrfox 2]

Blahdy- are you sticking with mostly 93 for this project or are you going to do route 1 tunnels (leading up to the Tobin) and all of that? I'm not requesting, just curious as to how far you're taking this.

[blahdy 21]

lrfox: The route 1 tunnels are included in the project (they are called CANA Tunnels, opened in 1993 through quick/ghetto construction contract), but only at the Charlestown / Zakim Bridge Interchange hand-off area. The CANA tunnels had steel gilder boxes as their tunnel portal up until ~2002 when Big Dig gave it a newly renovated tunnel portal at Charlestown Interchange side. So, the tunnel portals renovated by the Big Dig at Charlestown IC side of the CANA tunnels will be part of the project. But the other older tunnel portal built in 1993 at other side of the CANA tunnels on approach to Tobin Bridge won't be part of this project. hope this helps =)

update/FYI:  It's been confirmed that Mass. Turnpike Authority will be installing a pair of warning/caution signs ahead of the curved ramp viaducts to alert drivers as a result of two accidents above.  These signs will be included into CRCP, assuming MTA installs them quickly enough.