Posted on 01/07/2021 8:05:44 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On December 4, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Build North Coast Corridor (NCC) crews performed the final concrete pour to complete the underground foundation for the new Interstate 5 (I-5) bridge at the San Elijo Lagoon in the City of Encinitas. The bridge reconstruction will help relieve traffic congestion, improve lagoon tidal flows, and create new bike and pedestrian paths when complete in late 2021.
“Throughout the course of this regionally significant transportation project, the efforts to reestablish the health of the San Elijo Lagoon is an achievement with regional environmental benefits,” said Gustavo Dallarda, Caltrans District 11 Director. “In this time of COVID restrictions, the men and women of Caltrans and our contractors remain committed to safety and delivering this truly exceptional project.”
Construction first broke ground in early 2017 to replace the original, 57-year-old San Elijo Lagoon I-5 highway bridge located above Manchester Avenue. The project is part of the first phase of construction of the NCC program, a 40-year, $6 billion balanced set of highway, rail, environmental, bike and pedestrian mobility, and coastal access projects along a 27-mile corridor stretching from La Jolla to Oceanside.
After successfully opening new exterior I-5 bridges to motorists in February, crews demolished the original bridge and worked continuously through the pandemic to form new bridge foundation columns that will support the interior of the reconstructed San Elijo Lagoon highway bridge.
The new bridge has 22 support columns running 145 feet deep and eight support columns running 255 feet deep below ground level, which will allow the bridge to support current and future travel demands and to withstand seismic events . . .
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Good grief, do they EVER complete anything there? I rented a car in SD and had to fight traffic and construction until I got 30 miles out of town, and that was after the shuttle from the airport fought the same stuff. This was nearly 10 years ago!
I just drove through there on Tuesday, had no idea what the construction was about, traffic was light going both south and north
That’s because Don W led the Trump parade 30 miles out of town.
Schedule your travel around their return time.
I moved to the SF Bay Area in 1967. From the first time I saw the San Francisco Airport until the day until the day I left in 2005 there was always a construction project of some kind at the airport.
Yea, and the whole population is still trying to escape Kalifornia.
Yea, and the whole population is still trying to escape Kalifornia.
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So only the right hand lanes need to be widened, then?
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