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After decades of planning and years of funding delays, construction on the $43.7 million Hearn Avenue Overcrossing Replacement Project is finally hitting its most dramatic phase — overnight closures of Highway 101 as crews raze the old bridge.
The project officially broke ground in March 2024, when officials from Caltrans, the city of Santa Rosa and the Sonoma County Transportation Authority hailed it as a long-overdue fix to a regional bottleneck that dates back to the 1990s. Since then, crews have cleared trees, realigned traffic and installed giant girders, laying the groundwork for the new overpass…