Don’t Get All Shook Up; It’s Just Some Road Construction
Several hundred residents of Costa Mesa and Fountain Valley may feel the earth shake again Monday night, but the tremors will be man-made.
California Department of Transportation officials said Friday that highway construction crews will be using heavy pile drivers at the San Diego Freeway bridge over the Santa Ana River.
“It will be heard and felt for about a mile around the site,” said Caltrans spokesman Albert Miranda. “We’re telling people about it now so that they won’t think it’s another earthquake. People are still on edge from the last one.”
The work is being done from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. to avoid daytime closings of freeway lanes that would snarl traffic for miles, Miranda said. The pile-driving equipment will be in use for about 50 days, he added, but Caltrans is considering ways to shorten that period.
Caltrans also issued a warning Friday for motorists who use Harbor Boulevard near the freeway.
Miranda said the northbound lanes of Harbor, between Baker Street and Sunflower Avenue, will be closed to traffic all day and all night Tuesday for bridge work that is part of the freeway-widening project. The southbound lanes will be closed Thursday.
Motorists are advised to avoid using the heavily traveled segment as much as possible, Miranda said.
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