The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge’s bicycle and pedestrian path
will be closed for five hours each weekday for three weeks later this month and
next month for structural inspections, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
said Wednesday.
The bridge will be closed from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through
Friday from Monday through March 13 to allow Caltrans to inspect the bridge’s structural
integrity as required every two years by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration.
According to the MTC, the closure period was scheduled to
begin last month but was pushed back to accommodate upgrades to the truck inspectors
will use to access the underside of the bridge. The truck is expected to block
the entirety of the 10-foot-wide bike and pedestrian path.
Traffic for motorists traveling west on the bridge will not
be affected, according to the MTC. Inspection work could be postponed for a day
due to inclement weather, in which case the work would be rescheduled to a later
date.
The bike and pedestrian bridge opened in November 2019 and
was completed via a partnership between the Bay Area Toll Authority, Caltrans, the
Contra Costa Transportation Authority and the Transportation Authority of Marin.
Source: NBC Bay Area
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