Construction crews working to shore up a part of San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center where two cracked steel beams were found last week are hoping to reopen Fremont Street in about two weeks, officials with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority said Monday.
TJPA officials abruptly closed the newly-opened $2.2 billion Transit Center, as well as Fremont Street between Mission and Howard streets on Tuesday after finding the first crack. A second crack was found while workers were inspecting the first.
According to Dennis Turchon, the TJPA’s senior construction manager, crews this week will focus on shoring-up a portion of the transit center directly above the closed portion of Fremont Street.
Once the shoring work is complete, some lanes on Fremont Street may be narrowed, if not closed entirely.
TJPA spokeswoman Christine Favley said crews are hoping to reopen Fremont Street by Oct. 12 at the earliest, but couldn’t say when the transit center would reopen.
Last week, TJPA Executive Director Mark Zabaneh said engineers were looking at whether the cracks were related to the beams’ fabrication, their installation or the center’s design. Contractors and engineers have inspected other areas of the transit center where the beams are configured similarly and haven’t found any other problems.
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