Published On: Tue, Aug 6th, 2019

The Long Awaited Camino Real Bridge is Finally Reopening

Camino Real Bridge was shut down in April of 2018 for more than a year of construction and today it is finally reopening with all its brand new additions.

The initial construction goal was to widen the bridge to accommodate more walkers and bikers and ran slightly delayed from the original completion time.

A county engineer explains the delay to WPTV by stating,

“During construction towards the end of last year, some additional structural steel work was determined to be required. In order to maintain the April 12, 2019 opening date, permission to do night work was requested to the City of Boca Raton, but unfortunately it was not approved. In order to incorporate this new work, the contract time was extended 10 weeks, bringing opening date to June 20. The Bridge has been under electrical and mechanical functional inspection phase since that date. Some issues have been encountered during this testing that need to be addressed prior to opening the bridge to traffic. Contractor started incurring liquidated damages after June 20.”

The ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Camino Real Bridge was held this morning at 10 a.m.

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