Final Environmental Impact Report - Whittier Bridge/I-95 ...

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the highway. So we'll be widening in the medians of
the highway bridge over 110 as well as the railroad
bridge over 110. We did this to -- one of the primary
reasons was to reduce the environmental impacts to the
bordering vegetated wetlands. And also some of the
bridges in this area like 495 are of an older style,
that the piers run right behind the guardrails, and we
actually did a widening to the outside. Besides the
environmental impacts, there would be more bridges
that would have to be rebuilt.
So when the widening -- looking up basically from
mid-point of the project which is right around Route
110, with the existing three lanes with the four-foot
shoulder, we're now going to build out the interior
lanes still with the four-foot shoulder and a full
breakdown lane and basically fill in some of the wide
median and swale there and there'll now be a barrier,
a guardrail barrier on one of the sides because it's
dropped below the minimum distance that we can have
without having a guardrail there and meet current
standards.
And this should be review for a number of you
that have been here before. We have looked at
basically five different bridge types for the main
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