SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Department of Transportation is installing a new temporary bridge to carry Interstate 80 traffic over Union Pacific railroad tracks in western Salt Lake County during a construction project.
The temporary bridge that crews are assembling alongside eastbound I-80 at the junction with State Route 201 will be used during demolition and reconstructions of the existing bridges, the state Department of Transportation said.
The department said it’s using a construction method called “launching” in which bulldozers push the assembled sections of temporary bridge out over the train tracks to rest on supports already constructed.
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