Bus Crash on 161

[Chili]

http://www.kmph.com/story/21950336/f...atal-bus-crash

There's a good one.

"Driver in bus wreck also drove in '98 fatal crash"

Oh no. He shouldn't have been driving. The news needs to chill the fuck out, what is important here is that they should be in our prayers - loosing a bus could destroy their business. The news doesn't seem concerned at ALL with the bus, I haven't seen a single report where they have given any concern to the extent of damages to the bus.

Yeah, that was the one they were talking about last night. But they were reporting it as having occurred in 2001.

The driver was in critical condition last night, meanwhile they are trying to throw as much dirt at him as possible before they even know what caused the accident. They even asked his family members about that earlier fatality. Fuckers have no respect. Those are the types of things that made me laugh at that reporter that got punched in the mouth recently. If that happened more often maybe they would take a minute to think before opening their stupid traps.

[Phuck Phace]

I know the freeway has several big dips right there.

Yes, driving all throughout Las Colinas is like driving on a fucking roller coaster. I guess whoever threw all these roads down doesn't no dick shit about land grading.

[Chili]

Yes, driving all throughout Las Colinas is like driving on a fucking roller coaster. I guess whoever threw all these roads down doesn't no dick shit about land grading.

Ground around Irving, especially around beltline and 161 / GWB is notoriously unstable from what I have heard. Beltline from 161 to 114 is absolutely horrible..

I'm surprised they went to 75mph on the 161 right there, with as many dips as there are.

And that part of the road is only about 10 years old.

[95DRGT]

That 2.5 mile stretch between 183 and the beltline toll is State Highway not NTTA. Maybe they will finally fix that chit or let NTTA take it over. Maybe then it will go 3 lanes wide and get rid of the bottleneck there.

[CJ]

if there isnt a scandal gong on, they'll try to make one up.

This shit really pisses me off. The press have become prostitutes. The truth is irrelevant, it's all about sensationalism.

[bcoop]

Yes, driving all throughout Las Colinas is like driving on a fucking roller coaster. I guess whoever threw all these roads down doesn't no dick shit about land grading.

There is a fault line that runs through there, and it's been shifting more and more in recent years. I think there have been 5-6 earthquakes there just in the last 12-18 months. That plays more in to it than the grading.

[quikag]

Yep, Hackberry Creek (a pretty big development near MacArthur/161) homes have had foundation issues there and Kinwest Pkwy, runs north of the development is a heaving, bouncy horrible road. Most/all of the homes in Hackberry are pier and beam and they still have foundation issues.

I heard that area used to be a huge landfill many decades ago which contributes to how bad the ground is there.

[CJ]

There is a fault line that runs through there, and it's been shifting more and more in recent years. I think there have been 5-6 earthquakes there just in the last 12-18 months. That plays more in to it than the grading.

I did not know that.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I did not know that.

There's one bassically runnnig along 408 also.

[bcoop]

Yep, Hackberry Creek (a pretty big development near MacArthur/161) homes have had foundation issues there and Kinwest Pkwy, runs north of the development is a heaving, bouncy horrible road. Most/all of the homes in Hackberry are pier and beam and they still have foundation issues.

I heard that area used to be a huge landfill many decades ago which contributes to how bad the ground is there.

I did not know that.

Edit: I have the name wrong, hang on... Cottonwood Valley homes have the same issues. My uncle lives in there, and had upwards of $70,000 worth of foundation repairs when they bought the house, prior to moving in.


CJ, surely you knew of all the earthquakes locally right? There has been a post on it on here, almost every time. I'm assuming here, but I'm sure those can be traced back to that fault line by someone with more time than I have. DFW has bad soil, sure, but foundation issues seem to be worse in Irving than in other surrounding cities.

[CJ]

EditL I have the name wrong, hang on... Cottonwood Valley homes have the same issues. My uncle lives in there, and had upwards of $70,000 worth of foundation repairs when they bought the house, prior to moving in.


CJ, surely you knew of all the earthquakes locally right? There has been a post on it on here, almost every time. I'm assuming here, but I'm sure those can be traced back to that fault line by someone with more time than I have. DFW has bad soil, sure, but foundation issues seem to be worse in Irving than in other surrounding cities.

I knew there had been some earthquakes recently, but I didn't know the fault line was right there. I bet that bastard doesn't pay tolls either.

[Phuck Phace]

There is a fault line that runs through there, and it's been shifting more and more in recent years. I think there have been 5-6 earthquakes there just in the last 12-18 months. That plays more in to it than the grading.

I didn't know that either. I'm used to the roads in Plano so I hate driving out here, the people drive awful too.

[46Tbird]

I worked in a building basically at 161 and Gateway. You could actually see the ground outside rolling down the hill... it was making lumps in the grass at the bottom of the hill and there were a few bare spots where it was detaching. That building had really bad foundation problems too. One storage room was pulled apart nearly a foot before they had a contractor come out to fix it. It was plagued with broken pipes, causing "gray" water to come up out of the drains. Real pleasant.

There's no way I'd buy a home in Irving, there is just too much soil movement.

[bcoop]

I worked in a building basically at 161 and Gateway.

We are just right around the corner, and our building is pretty bad too. We've had it mudjacked at least 3 times in the last 8 years. I have a 4" gap under my wall between my office and the warehouse. It gets a little chilly during winter.


We haven't had any plumbing issues yet, though.

[talisman]

I think just about all of dfw has shitty foundation soil. South Arlington is fairly bad, too.