Hot! Officials Say Bay Bridge To Open Sunday Night

SAN FRANCISCO Work has gone hence smoothly about this San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that the westbound course from the fills will be open up Sunday night, nicely well before Tuesday morning's expected opening, a Caltrans official said.

Crews were being signed first taking a cones around several p.m. Sunday, along with targeted traffic expected to start out shifting with the upper deck, or even the westbound lanes, close to seven p.m., Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney reported after a Sunday evening click briefing.

The roadway actually had not been required to often be start right until 5 a.m. Tuesday.

The upper deck, or perhaps westbound direction into San Francisco, ended up being made Friday overnight and so deckie's may possibly realign the particular roadway, put affordable brand-new asphalt and do other work.

While your route had been closed, deckie's ended up additionally executing just what exactly Ney referred to as "housekeeping work," like painting, inspections as well as power work.

"It's like a face-lift is actually being done to the Bay Bridge while we have it closed," this individual said.

There were a few worries that in case heavy rainfall shifted in the area, that reopening would have also been delayed, inducing a nightmare of any travel in to San Francisco with Tuesday morning.

A humid temperature system was required to arrive within this area overdue Sunday, though the skies were distinct even though crews done the particular structure within the weekend. While this road appeared to be closed, people today using the Golden Gate Bridge to help drive straight into San Francisco identified weekend visitors thicker than usual.

Traffic on the Golden Gate from about

4 p.m. Saturday that will eight p.m. has been a "slow spider both in directions," mentioned Golden Gate Bridge District spokeswoman Mary Currie.

Traffic had been as well serious Sunday, Currie said.