The West Seattle Bridge remains on track for a Sept. 18 reopening date, Seattle Department of Transportation officials said on Thursday. FOX13
, Seattle Department of Transportation officials said on Thursday.
Four longer steel cylinders run nearly the entire length of the bridge. Each one contains 40 strands of steel wiring and each has the pulling strength of 1,000,000 pounds of pressure. "The rehabilitation tension repairs are designed to accommodate all the lanes of traffic currently on the bridge," said Dour. "The weight added by the cars is not a significant portion of the weight of the entire structure. 80% of the weight of this structure is the structure itself.
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