Shapiro: "Traffic Will Be Flowing On I-95 This Weekend"
In a stunning development, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced that “traffic will be flowing on I-95 this weekend.”
In a Tuesday press conference at the construction site, Shapiro, PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney spoke about the progress made by crews working 24/7.
“We have worked around the clock to get this done, and we’ve completed each phase safely and ahead of schedule,” said Shapiro who is celebrating his 50th birthday. “That’s all due to the incredible coordination with our local, state, and federal partners – and thanks to the hard-working men and women of the Philadelphia Building Trades who are making this happen.
“This is what it looks like when the ingenuity of Delco meets the grit of Philly. This is what happens when we all come together.”
In partnership with PennDOT, the United States Department of Transportation, the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Building Trades, crews have worked around the clock to reopen the roadway safely within two weeks of the collapse – well ahead of original predictions.
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and cheering on the dump trucks. 
I know I have been streaming since they announced it was available.
Watched them go from this after they took the whole section out on 6/16/23 -
to this -
to this on 6/17 that early morning -
to this that same evening -
and to a day shot on 6/18 -
very early morning 6/19 -
and evening -
and 6/20 before they changed camera angles (all views initially looking to the west) and after (now looking south) -
They even had a couple work guys out there with a quadcopter.
(red circle around it in the above to the far left center)
This is a render of what they planned to do -
The way it is normally is 4 lanes each way with 2 shoulders on each stretch, one on the far outer edge of the highway and the other adjacent to the center median. So the entire highway going both directions, is already relatively "wide", effectively "12 lanes" -
So I think they are "creating" each of the 3-lane temp segments (north-bound and south-bound), out of 2 "left lanes" + a "left shoulder" lane on each side, will then will start working on the outer shoulders/lanes for the "permanent" fix. I think those shoulders were made wide enough for emergency vehicles to use.
At that point, they will need to be shifting traffic (probably cattle-chute style) to a newly-finished permanent lane as they work their way towards the center where the temp is. That is when they will have to begin to remove all the fill that is currently forming the temp and covering the street under that section, so they can re-open the exit at some point.
I found a good pick to show a better idea of the entire width of I-95 in that location, where it is theoretically 12 lanes across, with 4 traffic lanes going in each side ALSO having 2 "shoulders" (which are actually a good width), on the the far inner and far outer parts of the highway -
Isolated section -
And they will be re-opening for traffic at noon today. The 6 lanes (3 going each direction) will be a bit narrower than normal and I expect it to congest a bit as they funnel onto that, but given the entire stretch, that one (former) overpass section, is a relatively short length.
This is what the completed temp section looks like right now around post time (where each side is actually using the inner shoulder lanes as a temp lane + what would be each of the 2 (normal) left lanes, to traverse while they work on the permanent fix for the outer 2 right lanes and their adjacent shoulder lanes -
