The California Department of Transportation will host a second in-person meeting to gather public input on detour plans for the upcoming one-year closure of the Vincent Thomas Bridge from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12.
The Traffic Management Plan Task Force meeting for the bridge deck replacement project will take place at the Anderson Memorial Senior Citizen Center,  828 S. Mesa St., San Pedro.
An additional Traffic Management Plan Task Force meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 9, in Long Beach. The location will be announced at a later date.
Residents also can provide input to the task force by taking a survey, available in English and Spanish, on the website: surveymonkey.com/r/VTBProjectTMP.
The link can be shared with neighbors, friends and family.
Updates on the project are available by following Caltrans on Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, @VTBproject.
A Facebook page — Vincent Thomas Bridge Deck Replacement Project — also is available.
Work is expected to begin in late 2025 or early 2026 and take about a year to complete. Detours are now under discussion, with some of the main concerns being impacts on neighboring communities — especially Wilmington, which is already hard-hit by Port of Los Angeles-related traffic — and on longshore workers at both the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, who rely on the bridge to get to and from work sites, sometimes frequently during the course of a day.
Visit virtualeventroom.com/caltrans/vtb for more information.
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