The closure began at 10 p.m. Friday and was scheduled to end at 5 a.m. Monday. All lanes in both directions of the freeway will be closed from the 10 Freeway in the north to the 5 Freeway/10 Freeway interchange with the 101 in the south. Drivers going west on the 60 Freeway out of Pomona will not be able to get onto the 101.
Crews will construct two new arches above the freeway as part of a $588 million Sixth Street Viaduct Replacement Project, which is the largest bridge project in L.A. history.
"It will be so much more than just driving across it," L.A. City Engineer Gary Lee Moore told ABC7 in an interview at the bridge construction site. People will be able to "bike across it, walk across it, descend stairs. There's a 3 1/2-level helical ramp that will take you up and under this new bridge. So it's just going to be a great place to visit and enjoy time with family and friends."
The previous Sixth Street Viaduct, which was built in 1932 and connected Boyle Heights with downtown L.A., was a Los Angeles landmark for its appearances in films such as "Grease," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and dozens more. The bridge needed to be replaced due to seismic vulnerability and deterioration caused by a chemical reaction in the concrete. On Feb. 5, 2016, the Bureau of Engineering began demolition work.
Women carpenters are breaking new ground on the Sixth Street Viaduct construction site
The bridge is being replaced with a design by L.A. architect Michael Maltzan and will resemble a Ribbon of Light'' with 10 sets of arches that light up at night.
The new viaduct is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2022, after which the Bureau of Engineering plans to create a 12-acre park underneath the bridge to provide access to the L.A. River, public art and recreational programming.
Each arch is 10 feet wide and spans about 300 feet. Each one will require about 65 trucks of concrete to create.
During the last 14 hours of the weekend closure, Caltrans said crews will conduct maintenance in the area, including removing graffiti and weeds, repairing guard rails and signs, repairing pavement and filling potholes. A contractor is expected to also repair broken slabs in the freeway's southbound lanes.
City News Service contributed to this report.
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