US 50/Echo Summit

[gonealookin]

The bridge replacement will proceed but the bulk of the work including the full closure has now been delayed until early June.  Doing the full closure after Memorial Day would be unthinkable in normal times due to the economic impact on the South Tahoe area, but here in the first half of 2020 there's no economy to impact.

The current schedule:
Until May 22 - Monday through Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday 7:00 a.m. to noon with one-way alternating traffic control to prepare the worksite.
Tuesday, May 26 until Sunday, May 31 - Around-the-clock one-way traffic control
June 1 until June 14 - Complete closure for bridge girder replacement work.

[Max Rockatansky]

I think it's probably safe to say that given the Governor's stance at the moment that Memorial Day is a good bet this year.  I might be remembering incorrectly but wasn't the original full closure supposed to be far longer than two weeks?

[gonealookin]

The full closure has always been quoted as 10-14 days.  There will be a functional new bridge at that point, but project completion won't be until the fall so there will be plenty of flagger delays and probably occasional short closures for a while.

Edit:  And now the job is postponed until after Labor Day 2020.  I give up on trying to keep up with the postponements; the latest will be on the Caltrans public information web site  and on the related Twitter feed.