Yikes, is my face red!
I looked at the calendar wrong on Friday and reported that Cypress Avenue bridge construction would require big traffic pattern changes over the weekend. But, duh, it’s NEXT weekend. Nov. 6-8. Otherwise, the information, repeated below, is completely accurate for, we repeat, NEXT weekend:
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This might be a good weekend to avoid the Cypress Avenue bridge in Redding. Work crews will limit the crossing over the Sacramento River to one lane in each direction while they reroute traffic lanes.
By Monday, auto traffic (two lanes in each direction) will be on the northernmost bridge. The southern span will be used by pedestrians, bicyclists and the construction crews. This arrangement will allow crews to begin demolition of the last portion of the 1948 bridge, which currently stands between the two new bridges.
The new traffic pattern will remain in place until the project is finished in December 2010, city officials said. The $73 million bridges then will open with three lanes in each direction.
Motorists are urged to slow down in the construction zone.
