Summer construction hits Seventh Street

By Jill Newell 

On-Line Forty-Niner

Most of the road work during the week will take place at night, from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., or on the weekends to ease traffic congestion during the construction.

Seventh Street will be repaved between Pacific Coast Highway and the I-405 San Diego Freeway and the 22 Garden Grove Freeway connectors. 

The bridges over the San Gabriel River and the Los Cerritos Channel will be repaved. The bridges also will be widened to incorporate a ten foot shoulder in each direction for emergency and temporary parking. 

The road work is being done to provide maintenance on the bridge infrastructure, said Presley Burroughs, a public information officer at Caltrans.

The Long Beach and Orange County transit buses with routes in the construction area will be temporarily detoured during the road closures.

Various lane closures will be necessary and at least one lane will be open for through traffic on Seventh Street between the Pacific Coast Highway and Studebaker Road.

Construction is expected to last until April 2000 and is estimated to cost $3.8 million.