Saturday, 3 March 2012

Hot! Officials Say Bay Bridge To Open Sunday Night

SAN FRANCISCO Work has gone consequently smoothly on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in which that westbound route of the bridge shall be open Sunday night, nicely before Tuesday morning's anticipated opening, a Caltrans official said.

Crews were scheduled to begin with lifting cones about 7 p.m. Sunday, with page views likely to start switching within the higher deck, as well as the westbound lanes, all around 8 p.m., Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney explained during a Sunday night time press briefing.

The roadway originally were required to always be amenable right up until 5 a.m. Tuesday.

The upper deck, or perhaps westbound course towards San Francisco, was made Friday night consequently deckie's could realign that roadway, drop brand-new asphalt in addition to carry out alternative work.

While your road ended up being closed, crews were also executing just what Ney described as "housekeeping work," which includes painting, inspections along with electrical work.

"It's for a face-lift can be getting carried out on the Bay Bridge though you'll find the item closed," he or she said.

There have been quite a few concerns that in case major rainwater moved into the area, the particular reopening might have recently been delayed, triggering a major problem of your travelling into San Francisco on Tuesday morning.

A humid weather procedure seemed to be required to appear from the area late Sunday, nevertheless the skies were very clear when deck hands worked on the system covering the weekend. While your roads seemed to be closed, individuals using the Golden Gate Bridge for you to push directly into San Francisco identified end of the week targeted traffic heavier as compared to usual.

Traffic within the Golden Gate through about

4 p.m. Saturday to 10 p.m. appeared to be a "slow crawl both in directions," mentioned Golden Gate Bridge District spokeswoman Mary Currie.

Traffic appeared to be also heavy Sunday, Currie said.

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