Major I-80 Stretch In Sierra To Be Shut Down Saturday Morning For PG&E Repairs

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(credit: Caltrans)

TRUCKEE (CBS13) — A large agelong of Interstate 80 successful the Sierra volition spot an hours-long closure aboriginal Saturday greeting for exigency Pacific Gas and Electric repair work.

According to Caltrans, PG&E volition repair a transmission enactment successful Cisco Grove and a organisation enactment successful Kingvale. The lines were reportedly damaged during the aboriginal week tempest that brought dense rainfall and snowfall to the region.

A information of Highway 20 adjacent the I-80 connector volition beryllium impacted, too.

The closures are arsenic follows:

Westbound 80 astatine the Nevada authorities line, trucks only, starting astatine 4:15 a.m.
WB astatine Donner Lake Interchange, 4:45 a.m.
WB astatine Kingvale, 5 a.m.
Eastbound astatine Nyack, 4:45 a.m.
EB astatine Cisco Grove, 5 a.m.
EB 20 successful Nevada City, 4 a.m.

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All lanes are expected to beryllium afloat reopened by 7 a.m.