JACKSON, Wyo. (KIFI) – The Wyoming Department of Transportation, together with contract crews from Ames Construction, has rescheduled work deliberate for this Thursday night.
The work has been delayed till Monday night time, March 4, climate allowing, as a result of recent Winter Storm Watch for Teton County issued by the National Weather Service.
From 11 p.m. to 4 a.m., the in a single day work consists of eradicating the concrete obstacles on the Snake River Bridge on Wyoming State Highway 22 on the intersection of Wyoming State Highway 390 and pothole repairs on the bridge.
Crews nonetheless plan to restore the big pothole on the west finish of the bridge that they have been unable to restore final week, as properly. If crews have sufficient time throughout the night time work hours, they may handle different potholing areas on the bridge. Traffic shall be carried by way of the work areas at decreased speeds on a single lane beneath flagging operations.
The elimination and relocation of the concrete barrier would require a number of hours of labor beneath a single lane closure with alternating site visitors. WYDOT and the contractor have elected to carry out this work after hours when site visitors volumes are decreased to alleviate impacts on daytime site visitors. Due to the character of the work and the fabric getting used for patching, crews are capable of carry out the work at night time with out low temperatures forcing prolonged closure instances. The concrete barrier, as soon as eliminated, shall be reset on March sixth in one other space of the work zone for numerous operations.
The concrete barrier was initially placed on the bridge at night time to guard shifting site visitors whereas crews labored on the brand new bridge adjoining to the old bridge and roadway. Now that the cofferdam work has been accomplished, there isn’t any longer a necessity for the concrete barrier and the unique bridge rail has been reinstalled and can stay in place till the site visitors strikes to the brand new bridge. Crews hope to complete the work in a single night time, climate allowing. The delay instances will fluctuate relying on progress, nighttime site visitors and climate.
WYDOT wish to remind drivers to recollect to obey all roadside indicators, site visitors management units and closures. For extra details about the present work occurring on the WYO 22 and WYO 390 intersection and Snake River Bridge, click on HERE.
