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from http://www.kcbs.com/pages/824909.php?contentType=4&contentId=811639
A section of roadway about the length of a football field has been constructed on a movable support system which will be rolled into place over Labor Day weekend when the Bay Bridge is closed.

The section of the project is being called the Yerba Buena Island Viaduct Replacement.

Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend there will be lots of demolition on the bridge’s upper deck. Then special tracks will be laid horizontally along the bridges’ lower deck. At that point crews “will be sliding in a section that is actually six inches shorter than what we just removed so we can slide it directly into place,” said an engineer on the project.

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http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2007-8-1-all-bridge
Officials noted the concern that the project might not be completed in three days and thus keep the bridge shut down into the first work week of September. They hope that fear will be allayed by the fact that the contractor on the estimated $40 million viaduct replacement project is Rancho Cordova-based C.C. Myers.

Myers won praise for lightning-fast reconstruction of the collapsed eastbound Interstate 80 to eastbound I-580 ramp in the Oakland's busy MacArthur Maze interchange in May. The job earned the contractor a $5 million bonus - nearly six times what C.C. Myers bid on the job.

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