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A rendering of what the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will look like once construction is complete.All southbound lanes of the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills will be closed once again overnight Tuesday so construction can wrap up on a major milestone for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.The northbound lanes will stay open all night, and both freeway and street detours are available for drivers.Crews will be removing a large crane that installed 82 girders above both sides of the freeway.
Crews will be removing a large crane from the area, marking the last full nightly closure of all freeway lanes in one direction at a time for the foreseeable future, according to Caltrans. The northbound lanes will stay open all night, and both freeway and street detours are available for drivers.The full southbound closure will start at Chesebro Road at 11 p.m. Tuesday, but some lanes may start to shut down as early as 7 p.m., according to Caltrans.The freeway detour for both the southbound and future northbound closures on the 101 Freeway.But if you don’t, you’ll be directed off the freeway along with all the other southbound traffic to the local street detour.
All lanes are expected to reopen by 4 a.m. Wednesday. This closure is expected to last one night, not several weeks like the previous rounds of work.Crews will be removing a large crane that installed 82 girders above both sides of the freeway. The girders, which are huge boxes of reinforced concrete, act as the base level of the wildlife crossing and support its horizontal reach.
The work started on the southbound side last month, then it moved to the northbound lanes, bringing its own set of five-hour overnight closures each time.Watching the last girder going in on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing!
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