SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The new
bicycle/pedestrian on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge will be closed
for five hours on each weekday for the next three weeks to allow
Caltrans to perform structural inspections of the span. The Federal
Highway Administration requires highway bridge inspections to be
conducted every two years, and Caltrans aims to conduct as much of
the inspection work as possible during the winter months to avoid
closures of the bicycle/pedestrian path during the spring and
summer.
The four-mile-long path will be closed from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day beginning Monday,
Jan. 27 through Friday, Jan. 31. The pathway also will be
closed during the same hours from Monday,
Feb. 3 through Friday, Feb. 7
and from Monday, Feb. 10 through
Friday, Feb. 14. Inclement weather
may prompt Caltrans to cancel inspections for a day, and to
reschedule work for a later date.
In addition to the daytime closures needed for structural
inspections of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, the path will be
closed in the overnight hours from Monday,
Feb. 3 through Friday, Feb. 7
to accommodate crews performing repairs to the moveable barrier
that separates bicyclists and pedestrians from westbound traffic.
These closures will begin each night at 8
p.m. and continue until 5 a.m.
the next morning. Traffic lanes for westbound motorists will remain
open during the path closures. Travel information is available
on Caltrans' QuickMap page at http://quickmap.dot.ca.gov and at
511.org.
The Richmond-San Rafael bicycle/pedestrian path, which
opened to the public in November
2019, was developed through a partnership between the Bay
Area Toll Authority, Caltrans, the Contra Costa Transportation
Authority and the Transportation Authority of Marin. MTC is the transportation planning,
financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.
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SOURCE Metropolitan Transportation Commission