Politics & Government
Dumbarton Bridge Closed Through Tuesday Morning
Crews will be working on making the bridge safer during earthquakes. For more information, visit www.dumbartonbridgeinfo.org.
For the second time this year, the Dumbarton Bridge will be closed during a holiday weekend.
The 1.6-mile bridge that connects the East Bay to the Peninsula will be closed from 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, to 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 4.
According to dumbartonbridgeinfo.org, the three-day full closure of the bridge is needed so crews can replace a portion of the eastern side of the bridge with “a state-of-the-art seismic joint,” which would make it more flexible during an earthquake.
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The bridgework is part of the Dumbarton Bridge Seismic Retrofit, which is a portion of the San Francisco Bay Area Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program. The project is scheduled to be complete by 2013.
Motorists can go either north to use the San Mateo Bridge or south on Interstate 880 to Route 237 to reach Interstate 101 during the bridge closure.
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During , crews replaced a western portion of the bridge with a new seismic joint.
For more information, visit www.dumbartonbridgeinfo.org.
