Pleasant Hill is in the process of replacing the Golf Club Road bridge. Phase one requires the removal of the Contra Costa Water District 24-inch water pipeline going beneath the bridge.

Pleasant Hill city workers claim the bridge on Golf Club Road is old and in the early processes of renovation. The bridge will be removed, section by section to allow traffic to continue without problems while the bridge is renovated.

“The city is retrofitting the bridge, they are in the process of removing the waterline in order to make a new bridge,” said onsite supervisor Don Gates of RJ Gordon Constriction.

The construction on Golf Club Road had nothing to do with the blackout that occurred on Feb. 7, where the campus’s Art and Performance Art buildings and Cafeteria were without power. Gates said he’s seen people on the construction site, they were not with the company, but they were working on the city’s electrical grid.

Students expect traffic delays on Gulf Club Road while driving to school between 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Phase one is to be complete by March 1, said Gates. He added that students who are walking to campus should walk on the opposite side of the road while construction is going on.

“The construction doesn’t affect me, I haven’t heard anything bad, it doesn’t affect playing Tennis.” said DVC student Sascha Ko when asked how her day-to-day life would change. “Nothing hinders me while driving on Gulf Club Road.”

Another student, Nick Dax, horticulture, said of the construction: it doesn’t affect me, because I used the bus to go to Walnut Creek.