Public Information Transcripts - Whittier Bridge/I-95 Improvement ...

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bridge across. This is a representation of some
activities. For the sake of the model, we did the
simplest structure at this point in time, which is
basically a girder bridge, showing basically some
barges that would be in the water dealing with this
type of work. Over here is the pier under
construction on the northbound side.
Then the completed highway for
northbound. As you’ll see, we put northbound and
southbound traffic on it. And, basically the existing
configuration as it is today, which is the three lanes
in each direction, the two very tight shoulder areas,
which currently are two-foot. We have the two slight
shoulder areas. And this is how the traffic will run
until we are able to demolish the other bridge and
then build the new southbound.
So, you can see in this phase with the
bridge open we can now demolish the existing
structure. That portion in the middle will almost
have to be disassembled in reverse manner of how it
was built. The deck, which is below it, which is
basically a swinging deck held by cables, that will be
removed first. Then the arch will be disassembled
from the centers out to the spans. And then each of
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