Work resumes this weekend on a BART track rebuilding project near the Lafayette Station.
There will be a track shutdown between the Orinda and Walnut Creek stations on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29.
Free buses will replace trains between those stations and riders should anticipate delays of 40 minutes or more. Also, the two left lanes of eastbound Highway 24 at Oak Hill Road will be closed starting at 11 p.m. Friday, September 27 until 7 a.m. Monday, September 30 to allow space for construction equipment.
Caltrans and BART will monitor backups in real time and will work together to reduce the number of lanes closed from two to one if driving delays approach 30 minutes.
Workers have been active around-the-clock during two previous shutdown weekends to replace nearly 50-year-old track components.
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I want to see the video of when they knocked down the power lines and closed Highway 24 :).
funny how that got left out
“Free buses will replace trains” and get caught up in the traffic jam. I won’t be visiting friends in Lafayette this weekend.
Why doesn’t BART have cameras like this at their toll gates?
Anybody notice the loooong reaches with the low boom angles? That’s the reason for the high capacity crane. I’m sure every lift was calculated before the crane was ordered.
Wondering if an “engineer” figured it out or some guy with 30 years experience, my money is on the experiential knowledge. That boomed conveyor system for placing ballast stone is impressive.
Crane operators need to be very aware of where they’re sticking their boom, load and angles. Had large mobile crane onsite decade or so back, raised up boom and got too near HIGH voltage which reached out, traveled down the boom to ground and blew out tires on the crane.
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