Updated at 8:34 a.m., Thursday, February 8, 2007
Damaged stretch of H-1 Zipper Lane repaired
Advertiser Staff
The portion of the west-bound H-1 Freeway's Zipper Lane that was damaged by a jackknifed semi-truck near Radford Drive yesterday morning was repaired overnight and operating normally at 5:30 this morning, said Scott Ishikawa, spokesman for the State Department of Transportation.Repair crews overnight replaced 10 of the 15 zipper links that had been damaged, Ishikawa said. Each link weighs about 2,000 pounds.
Yesterday's accident occurred just before 11:30 a.m. and tied up traffic for more than two hours.
