The 70-year-old La Rue Road bridge over the Arboretum Waterway is scheduled to be closed to all traffic (vehicles and bicycles) for a week starting Monday (April 20) as the contractor prepares to open the first half of the bridge’s replacement. The bridge remains closed to pedestrians, as it has been since the start of construction.

UC Davis officials do not expect the closure to impact that many people, considering traffic is light while campus operations are suspended.

The bridge is being built one half at a time, the west half first; construction began in February 2019. About all the contractor still has to do is pave new sections of road on both ends of the bridge — and that will happen during next week’s closure.

The new half-bridge is scheduled to open Monday, April 27, carrying northbound and southbound traffic while the contractor builds the other half. Traffic in both directions has been squeezing onto the old half of the bridge during construction of the west half. When both halves come together, northbound traffic will stick to one side, southbound traffic to the other.

Read more about the bridge project, including a comparison of the new and old bridges, in this Spring Quarter Snapshot.

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