How Many Pieces Did You Say It Will Take To Build This Plant?
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33 responses to “How Many Pieces Did You Say It Will Take To Build This Plant?”
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As usual a great job of balanced reportage.
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That is good news indeed. It would have been better news if LEGO was locating this plant in a place that could use a lift like Danville, Martinsville, or South Boston.
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I agree. However, they don’t have the project-ready site. More importantly, they are not located near an interstate highway.
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Is Rt 58 going to be interstate some day?
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it probably has a better chance of being upgraded like Rt 29 from Cville to Danville has been.
Where rt 29 crosses into NC, there have been signs that say “Future I-73”.
Unless a different pot of money appears, any upgrades to Rt 58 would have to pass Smart Scale muster which is not very friendly to proposals that are primarily for economic development.
I think the days of new location interstates is largely over. Some folks want a dual I-95 corridor between Richmond and Washington but there would be thousands of NIMBY’s opposed to it and it would cost several times the annual budget of VDOT.
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They are connecting I-95 to Norfolk via a new Interstate in NC by converting parts of Rte. 17 to Interstate 87 or some such.
Combined with I-40 and other limited access highways, there will be an East-West Interstate 30 miles inside North Carolina.
Do we also need one 20 miles inside Virginia?
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They are connecting I-95 to Norfolk via a new Interstate in NC by converting parts of Rte. 17 to Interstate 87 or some such.
Combined with I-40 and other limited access highways, there will be an East-West Interstate 30 miles inside North Carolina.
Do we also need one 20 miles inside Virginia?
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Is Rt 58 going to be interstate some day?
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Wasn’t there something about Rt 58 becoming an interstate?
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Highway 58 between Suffolk and Hillsville might be one of the rare places left in Virgnia that is still serious about the speed limit.
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Emporia’s a speedtrap on steroids…
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Went through there twice a few months ago – did not see a single police vehicle. Must have been a day off.
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Could be that gas prices are so high that Johnny Lawman can’t afford to cruise and patrol.
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You’ll be happy to hear, not anymore. Something happened to end the little reign of terror in Emporia.
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In 1989, a project was authorized and funded to make Rt. 58 a divided, four-lane highway the entire distance between Virginia Beach and the Kentucky line. (It was only a 2-lane highway in many areas.) The primary motivation was the improvement of economic development opportunities along the southern border of the Commonwealth. The original western terminus of the project has been modified due to the difficulty and expense of expanding the highway in Grayson County around Mt. Rogers. Now the goal is have a four-lane divided highway from Virginia Beach to I-77 at Hillsville. Work has commenced on the final section in Patrick County. https://www.virginiadot.org/projects/salem/route-58-widening—lovers-leap-in-patrick-county-ppta-project.asp
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” This $300-million design-build project will widen 7.4 miles of Route 58 over Lovers Leap from two lanes to four lanes. ”
whoa! this is not chump change! that’s about 40 million a mile! Must be separate from SmartScale – perhaps grandfathered.
below is the 2020 SmartScale funding for perspective:
District Total
# Projects Funding
Bristol 10 $34,979,057
Culpeper 6 $31,582,299
Fredericksburg 18 $53,525,348
Hampton Roads 34 $312,011,511
Lynchburg 8 $35,260,316
Northern Virginia 14 $205,164,371
Richmond 20 $92,219,080
Salem 10 $51,000,057
Staunton 21 $43,695,120
Total 141 $859,437,159
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Who died on Rte. 58? Somebody famous bit the big wahzoo while driving the road.
I thought maybe Hank Williams, but a search turns him up dead for the first time in a diner on Rte. 61 in some other state.
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Lots of people die on Route 58. A fatal wreck there was a pretty standard short story when one was working the night cops shift at the Roanoke paper.
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Bower’s Hill is a population control device…
It was a really famous person. Movie star fame. Where was Jane Mansfield decapitated? It was out toward South Boston.
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You’ll be happy to hear that one of the key criteria for evaluating projects on VDOT’s SmartScale process is the number of accidents and deaths.
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aka “blood on the highway”. With the FAA substitute runway.
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It’s an awful road in the hills and mountains. Even drivers can get motion sickness from all the curves!
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Or maybe from driving over the sensible speed for the road as designed?
Reminds me of Storm King Highway northbound up the Hudson or going up to or down from Muir Woods in Sausalito. Another one of them is the loose gravel road going up to Burk’s Garden.
All require full attention.
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Good reporting. Thanks. I don’t know but this sounds like fairly basic manufacturing that would have been perfect for rural folks who might have only a high school education.
Of course, one might also make a similar argument for urban folks with high school also.
Of course making that “stuff” in Mexico or China would be more the norm so I do wonder what the secret sauce is for Chesterfield beyond Moret’s ‘shovel ready site” philosophy.
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We got tons of Lego’s in the basement, and sounds like this is our part towards carbon sequestration. I had a hard time believing Lego could find an alternative bio-plastic with such favorable Lego-characteristics as the ABN plastic used. I heard about this new plant on WTOP radio yesterday as we were heading out-of-town, so thanks for reminding me.
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Heirlooms.
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My nephew’s collection was measured by the tens of pounds when it finally went…probably to a landfill.
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Goodwill. Thrift shops. etc…
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I am glad it is not a Lite Brite factory. I have spent way too many hours picking up those little pegs from my daughters play day mess.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fd2f089dad57818cfa36683ea7499ce24e9888c5e17186e4463fd748afe89d58.jpg
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I think because of the supply chain woes of the last few years, this will become a more common occurrence. Cheap labor is great until you don’t have any product to sell because it is stuck offshore for whatever reason. Then that labor becomes unaffordable.
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In this case though, they were manufacturing in Mexico.
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If you are saying they didn’t have transportation issues between here and mexico, then I would offer that there was serious disruption in any trade lane; even interstate in the US. Check it out online if you don’t believe me.
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Choking hazards. Stepping on one barefoot is no joy either.
Pick your poison, CO2 or microplastic.
I’m surprised by the Republican exuberance over Legos… usually they just give their kids mental blocks for Christmas.
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