Final I-80 Bridge Lift Scheduled Tonight
Final I-80 Bridge Lift Scheduled Tonight
It was a year and a half ago when Caltrans began their ‘Raise 80’ project with the lifting of the Magra Road bridge and a detour through Nevada County. Tonight and tomorrow, they will be lifting their final bridge of the project… Listen to…
It was a year and a half ago when Caltrans began their ‘Raise 80’ project with the lifting of the Magra Road bridge and a detour through Nevada County. Tonight and tomorrow, they will be lifting their final bridge of the project…
Caltrans spokeswoman Liza Whitmore says tonight and tomorrow night from 11pm to 5am, Interstate 80 will be closed, and hydraulic jacks will literally lift that bridge about a foot and a half. The project is necessary so that the bridge will meet new federal standards, which Whitmore says were put in place for the military…
The new minimum clearance requirement is 16-feet-six inches. Most bridges have about 15 feet of clearance.
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