[Vision2020] Test Megaload Still Stuck

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (May 1, 2011) Spokesman-Review.

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Test megaload still stuck

The “test validation module” for 200-plus Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil Highway
12 megaloads will stay where it is – in a chain-up area at milepost 169.1,
about five miles west of the Montana state line on Highway 12 – until at
least Monday night. The reason, the ITD has announced, is “potential
inclement weather.” Weather permitting, it’ll head into Montana Monday
night or early Tuesday morning, the transportation department said.

The test load, which is designed to match the tallest, widest and longest
of the proposed loads, stalled for two weeks after its first night of
travel, after clipping a guy wire and knocking out power to two Idaho
towns.

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I know that it's been a while, but does anybody know when this particular
test load departed Lewiston?  (1 down, 200+ more to go . . . )

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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