Bay Area Commuters: The Golden Gate Bridge will be closed from 12:01 a.m. Saturday to 4 a.m. Monday. Motorists will be banned, but Golden Gate transit buses, pedestrians and cyclists will be allowed. In a matter of days, the plastic, tubular pylons that separate the northbound and southbound lanes will be replaced with a concrete median. A zipper truck will move the barrier on an as-needed basis, depending on the flow of traffic. But its going to take a whole weekend to install it. The median is composed of 3,000 concrete units each weighing 1,500 pounds. The engineers figured out that it was going to take weeks if we just close the center lanes and just had a trickle of traffic going through, which would be a pain for everyone. So the bridge board of directors decided that they would just rip off the band aid and do it in one fell swoop, said Golden Gate Bridge spokesperson Priya David Clemens.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:01:00 +0000
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