Post by Logan on Mar 12, 2016 1:09:15 GMT -6
COLUMBIA — Drivers on Interstate 85 in Spartanburg County are in danger of hydroplaning because the state’s highway agency did not specify a drainage slope when an 11-mile stretch of the highway was recently repaved, according to a lawsuit filed by a retired Greenville paving contractor.
Edward Sloan, who has successfully sued state agencies over various issues during the past two decades, filed suit this week against the state Department of Transportation, alleging the agency is “unlawfully abusing its discretion” by not requiring a specific slope to the 11-mile segment of I-85.
According to Sloan and his South Carolina Public Interest Foundation, the named plaintiffs in the suit, DOT has an adequate standard for what engineers call “cross slope” but has not required it for the I-85 project, instead allowing the contractor to use the existing slope.
Sloan said that portion of the road had become “rutted, worn and distressed” and the slope needs to be improved, not maintained. He said DOT should be using its own standards, which he said were last revised in 2003, and attached to his suit as an exhibit.
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2016/03/11/suit-against-dot-alleges-hydroplaning-danger--85/81636930/
Edward Sloan, who has successfully sued state agencies over various issues during the past two decades, filed suit this week against the state Department of Transportation, alleging the agency is “unlawfully abusing its discretion” by not requiring a specific slope to the 11-mile segment of I-85.
According to Sloan and his South Carolina Public Interest Foundation, the named plaintiffs in the suit, DOT has an adequate standard for what engineers call “cross slope” but has not required it for the I-85 project, instead allowing the contractor to use the existing slope.
Sloan said that portion of the road had become “rutted, worn and distressed” and the slope needs to be improved, not maintained. He said DOT should be using its own standards, which he said were last revised in 2003, and attached to his suit as an exhibit.
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2016/03/11/suit-against-dot-alleges-hydroplaning-danger--85/81636930/