Date:  Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Contact: Emily Pace, WSDOT Communications, 360-349-4171

HOQUIAM - Inspections on the US 101 Simpson Avenue Bridge will close the span tomorrow evening. The nearby Riverside Bridge will be reconfigured to accommodate one lane of traffic in each direction.

Crews will close the bridge from 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, to 6 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 30. Closing the span allows crews to perform final inspections on a $9.2 million rehabilitation project which closed the bridge for 10 weeks this past spring.

While the re-opening of the bridge to traffic in April marked the completion of the bulk of the work being done, miscellaneous work items remained. Contractor Rognlins, Inc. began construction in September 2007.

For more information on this completed project visit: www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/us101/simpsonbridgerehab/.

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