PENSACOLA - Officials plan to reopen the westbound lanes of the Interstate 10 bridge across Escambia Bay today, less than three weeks after Hurricane Ivan ripped it up and killed a truck driver trying to make it across.
The westbound lanes will be open to two-way traffic while the contractor, Gilbert Southern Corp., repairs the eastbound lanes.
The contractors "have just done an amazing job, working day and night," said Dick Kane, spokesman for the Florida Department of Transportation. "This will get commerce rolling again, get trucks rolling again. The speed limit may be lowered, but it's open again and that's the important thing."
The bridge is a vital link on an interstate that goes across the southern part of the United States from California to Jacksonville.
State officials said work on the eastbound lanes was expected to take another 90 days.
