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Limerock Road

[Today’s run:  Limerock Road, 4 miles]

Limerock Road starts at the Old Macon Road near the Tombigbee waterway and curves southwesterly.  It intersects Evans road at this junction, just over 2 miles from our house.

It continues on to the south, has intersections with S. Evans Road and Sally Freeman Road, dead- ending about half a mile south of there.

Google Maps calls it Limerock Drive.

If you go left from here you go downhill to the river-bottom level.  Go right and there is a slight uphill to the S. Evans intersection.

4 replies on “Limerock Road”

Tombigbee – that is not heard every day. It far eclipses the “bridge to nowhere” in the realm of gov’t boondoggles (although I suspect the Iraq invasion is at the top). I massive ditch that is under the radar of the taxpayers concerned about deficits and taxation.

I’d say it is less of a boondoggle than some things.

If (when) the Mississippi floods, barge traffic can still get from the gulf to the Ohio via the Tombigbee and the Tennessee river.

It is kind of a redundant Mississippi.

Less than some things, certainly. (The space station and Iraqi invasion come to mind.) But still in the pantheon of boondoggles. Freight rail, which pays taxes on revenues as well as property taxes on right of way, is there should the Mississippi flood (how often does that river flood to the point of cessation of barge traffic – and for how long?).

Expensive redundancy with readily available modal alternatives. $2,000,000,000 (not current dollars) for 200 miles.

I will have to defer to you for the cost accounting of
waterway vs. railway.

It seems to me there is a
considerable change of scale between rail and barge,
about the same as between truck and rail.

As for closing of the Mississippi River, I know they had a big
flood last year and believe it was closed during some of that time.
My guess would be there is some kind of closure every 3-4 years.

We do see some local barge traffic (I assume it is local).
The freight we see is dirt/gravel for road construction
and scrap metal for the steel plant. There is a new
plant in town for converting wood chips to fuel. I
suspect those guys might use it based on the volumes
they will have to have.

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