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Drill Bits and Dynamite...Part Eighteen...The South Interchange

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This will be mostly photos from various stages of construction of the South Interchange on Segment 1 of the Sea to Sky project. Because traffic needed to keep moving while the new sections of highway were built, temporary lanes were shifted back and forth to allow the contractor to do the required work. A section of road or concrete structure would get built in the area where traffic was moved from. When that was done, the traffic was moved over again to allow another part to be constructed. This required a lot of planning and teamwork to keep things on schedule. This was the first time that I had worked so close to a very major highway. The drivers rushing to the ferries at Horseshoe bay, or zooming up to Whistler created new dangers that I had not encountered before. It soon was apparent that keeping myself and everyone else safe was going to be a full time job. We had people cursing at us from their cars, women yelling at us for harming Mother Nature, drunks coming into lane closur...