3 months for I-40 rock slide cleanup 'unrealistic'
HARMON DEN (Asheville Citizen-Times) — State transportation officials warned Tuesday that work clearing Interstate 40 after the most destructive rock slide in more than a decade could take longer than first expected.
The N.C. Department of Transportation also offered some early glimpses of what will be involved — from precarious cable-mounted drilling to using a contraption resembling a moon rover to traverse a boulder pile more than 150 feet high.
The slide, about three miles east of the Tennessee line, has shut down I-40 from Exit 20 to just inside Tennessee.
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The N.C. Department of Transportation also offered some early glimpses of what will be involved — from precarious cable-mounted drilling to using a contraption resembling a moon rover to traverse a boulder pile more than 150 feet high.
The slide, about three miles east of the Tennessee line, has shut down I-40 from Exit 20 to just inside Tennessee.
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