Another Roosevet Island Bridge Opening Advisory - This Time For Mornings Of September 15 & 16

RIOC has issued another Roosevelt Island Bridge Advisory - this time for the morning of Tuesday, September 15 and Wednesday September 16:

NYC DOT Bridge Operations Unit will be performing openings on the Roosevelt Island Bridge for preventative maintenance. We will be conducting these openings on Tuesday September 15th and Wednesday September 16th, 2009 10:00am to 2:00pm.

Please be advised that each test opening will take anywhere from 8 to 10 minutes to be completed.

The test openings will be appropriately spaced to prevent the least amount of disturbance to the vehicular traffic traversing the bridge.

This has been going on alot recently. Plan accordingly.

UPDATE 9/15 - From RIOC:

Please be advised the maintenance scheduled for the Roosevelt Island Bridge to take place on September 16, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. has been canceled.