This is kpix 5 news. The old bay bridge is closed for good, the work already underway tonight. Good evening. Im juliette goodrich. Im allen martin live at the bay bridge. It has taken us 24 years to get to where we are tonight. What a journey it has been. It began with the loma earth yak in october of 1989. That earthquake shook the bay area, and it knocked down a 50foot section of the eastern span of the bay bridge, a section that is now closed to traffic. Back in 89, it was closed for a full month while they repaired it just to get it operational again, but that set the wheels in motion to get this seismic replacement in place, and we are in place. We are just not quite ready to go. We are about five days away from opening. Once the closure happened, they are staging trucks there at the toll plaza on the oakland side of the bridge. They were staging trucks on the new eastern span, as well. One thing we saw tonight is the traffic barrier that was blocking off the new span from the s c
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