Headed To The Beach? Work Begins On Pensacola Bay Bridge

April 3, 2011

Work will begin Monday and continue for over a year on the Pensacola Bay Bridge — which connects downtown Pensacola to Gulf Breeze and eventually Pensacola Beach.

The Florida Department of Transportation has awarded a $3 million contract to Pneumatic Concrete Company, Inc. of Birmingham. Work will begin Monday, April 4 and will continue for up to 437 days.

The contract calls for repairing areas and cracks on the concrete beams and piles , replacing expansion joints, repairing or replacing anchor bolts at select locations and painting the steel girders over the channel.  To decrease traffic congestion, work which will require lane closures will take place at night.  There will be no eastbound lane closures between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and westbound between 6:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.  The channel will remain open to marine traffic.

Comments

4 Responses to “Headed To The Beach? Work Begins On Pensacola Bay Bridge”

  1. life's_challenging on April 3rd, 2011 6:16 pm

    i heard about this….go out to orange beach,it’s really beautiful out there =)

  2. William on April 3rd, 2011 8:26 am

    >>I assume when you say westbound, you mean northbound.

    Probably. The eastbound and westbound statement is directly from the Florida Department of Transportation.

    The bridge is Highway 98, which is an east-west highway, so the bridge technically runs east-west even though the bridge runs (almost) north-south. So FDOT’s west would be north (Gulf Breeze to Pcola) and east would be south (Pcola to GB).

  3. Comment on April 3rd, 2011 8:19 am

    I assume when you say westbound, you mean northbound. Interesting that I find this sort of news worthy tidbit in this news and not in our mullet wrapper PNJ. Thanks

  4. Michelle on April 3rd, 2011 4:42 am

    Just out of curiousity, why do they always start road works at peak seasons?
    It’s spring break and summer coming, It’s just so annoying!!

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