A full closure of westbound Interstate 10 occurred over the last weekend in April to place new rubberized asphalt pavement between Loop 202 (Santan/South Mountain Freeway) and US 60.
A total of 1.25 miles of new asphalt pavement was placed and restriped over the weekend and opened for traffic in time for Monday morning commuters.
Early Saturday morning, trucks began delivering 3,000 tons of asphalt to the work zone between Warner Road and Ray Road.
Following behind the asphalt trucks was the paving machine that converted the asphalt into about two inches of pavement.
Two rollers followed behind the paving machine to compact the asphalt further into a drivable surface.
A crew adds rock to an abutment for the eastbound Collector-Distributor (CD) road bridge over Southern Avenue.
A small loader, called a skid steer, delivers a load of rock to a crew building a wall for the eastbound CD road near Southern Avenue.
A crew stripes new rubberized asphalt pavement on westbound I-10 between Warner and Guadalupe roads.
A crew ties bridge deck rebar for a bridge that will connect State Route 143 to Interstate 10.
An excavator uses a weight to break up concrete rubble along the ramp from eastbound I-10 to eastbound US 60.
