last week, and extended an existing contract with HDR Engineering, Inc. Kicking off the first phase of a larger, $718.8 million Global Opportunities at the Port of Oakland (GoPort) project, the Alameda County Transportation Commission awarded a $193 million contract to Bay Area-based Ghilotti Construction Company, Inc. To fix that, a $364.5 million project will soon realign and reconstruct 7th Street - widening traffic lanes, heightening the underpass’ clearance, updating seismic standards and aiming to ease congestion for the hundreds of trucks that use this 90-year-old primary gateway to the port. The narrow passageway has reportedly produced such lengthy queues that as many as 50 trucks have been forced to wait in line for several hours to enter the marine terminals. Roughly 40% of all containers hauled in and out of the Port of Oakland travel along 7th Street, sometimes barely scraping through a deteriorating, graffitied Union Pacific Railroad underpass before connecting to Interstate 880 and arriving at their final destination.
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