Plymouth Road in Ann Arbor to remain closed until midnight
(Update: City officials announced that Plymouth Road is open again as of early Friday afternoon. See the story here.)
Plymouth Road between Barton Drive and Broadway Street is not expected to reopen until midnight as crews continue to clean up from a mudslide Wednesday night in Ann Arbor, authorities said.
Police closed the road at 9:23 p.m. Wednesday after about 2,000 cubic yards of mud and trees slid across it. Three inches of rain had fallen in 24 hours.
A 45-foot long section of the foundation of the railroad tracks east of the intersection of Traver Road and Bowen Street was swept away. Ann Arbor Railroad officials told police Wednesday night that it would take two to three weeks to repair the tracks.
No one was injured in the mudslide.
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Comments
Thick Candy Shell
Fri, May 27, 2011 : 2:52 a.m.
According to the City web site, the road will now remain closed until mid day tomorrow do to additional rain.
jude
Thu, May 26, 2011 : 10:27 p.m.
AnnArbor.com does have pictures - I saw them earlier in a different report, complete with a flickr gallery. I went out this afternoon and got these: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joodw/sets/72157626688025443/" rel='nofollow'>http://www.flickr.com/photos/joodw/sets/72157626688025443/</a> I'm sure there are a ton of pictures around - 2 other photographers were approaching as I left!
A2Susie
Thu, May 26, 2011 : 10:19 p.m.
Channel 7 News had live coverage with lots of film of both the railroad tracks hanging in the air and of Plymouht Rd. covered in dirt at 5:00 PM. I bet they will re-air it at 11:00.
cinnabar7071
Thu, May 26, 2011 : 8:53 p.m.
Maybe a reader could post a picture of the mess, since this is only a blog and has no reporters.
John Hritz
Thu, May 26, 2011 : 8:32 p.m.
Still no photos of this. I can't imagine what that amount of debris looks like.
Bob Bethune
Sat, May 28, 2011 : 1:33 p.m.
No pictures? Excuse me. A full slideshow on this was posted hours before your comment. It's at <a href="http://www.annarbor.com/news/rain-flooding-close-plymouth-road-in-ann-arbor-flood-wash-out-some-secondary-county-routes/">http://www.annarbor.com/news/rain-flooding-close-plymouth-road-in-ann-arbor-flood-wash-out-some-secondary-county-routes/</a> on this site.