One bridge done, one to go

I put up a post back in November 2015 about the bridge project between me and I-270, the road I take to get to work each day. I put the completion over-under at March 1 for that project, and took the over. I would've made some money if a bookie actually cared about that bet. Even with winter time off, and rainy spring delays, these guys were way behind. Nonetheless, in late May, the bridge opened:

Still a sharp turn involved:

Should be OK, I guess.

I also put up a post in August 2015 indicating that a second bridge project was starting to look like a bridge. Now, it is starting to look like a one-lane road, and I don't know when they will finish:

A work in (slow) progress

On the road that lies between me and I-270, there is an insane S-curve that crosses a stream. It frequently floods. Somebody at the Maryland Department of Transportation wisely concluded that this is suboptimal and came up with a plan to straighten the road and go right across the stream. I think they had to buy about an acre of some farmer's wooded, marshy cow pasture to do so but they did. So now, as you approach the S-curve (the bride across the stream is right at the peak of the first curve), you can see the construction on a road that simply goes straight across:

Saturday, on the way home from work, I pulled into the site to view their progress. The bridge footings are almost complete:

Of course, because it is a government project, they'll probably be at this for years. This is the mighty river they are attempting to span:

Still they've got that roadbed shaping up nicely:

I guess we'll see what we see. I'll have a heart attack, though, if they finish before winter weather slows work to a crawl. I'm putting the over-under at March 1.