Taking advantage of reduced traffic volumes resulting from statewide pandemic-related closures, the project team and Caltrans partnered to fast-forward this complex deck replacement on a Bay Area artery that typically handles nearly a quarter-million vehicles each day.
Crews are focusing on punch-list items and fiber-reinforced wrapping of bridge columns following a fast-track overpass replacement made possible by long-standing relationships between subcontractors and suppliers and a contracting company’s history of similar feats, according to project team members.
A realigned, 2.5-mile segment of Highway 101 north of San Francisco opened this month, a major step in widening 16 miles of the heavily traveled Marin-Sonoma Narrows.
