01/24/2005: "Hoover Dam"

I was talking to my mom today about the Hoover Dam pictures and she was suprised to hear about all of the vehicle restrictions on crossing since September 11th. All vehicles not allowed through have to go to Vegas by way of Laughlin which is a bit longer trip. No 18 wheelers can cross,and at any time they can refuse crossing to any vehicle. There are checkpoints set up on both sides, I will definately take pictures next time. Its kind of strange but we are so used to it by now I did not even think about it. They are working on a bypass project which will include a bridge over the river near the spillway area.

This link talks about what kind of vehicle restrictions there are:
Crossing info

This link talks about the overall project and has some artist renderings of what the project will look like. The bridge will probably be pretty amazing:

Hoover Dam Bypass Info

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on Monday, January 24th, Mom said

Thanks for the info on the dam. Are you still able to go inside on the tour? I thought the picture you took is really good. That dam is truly amazing.
I bet the traffic is much slower now.

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on Tuesday, January 25th, Drydune said

Yep, they are still running the tour. Since the diesels can't go over the traffic is actually not too bad. If there are alot of tours then it still can get backed up.