Drivers are being advised to avoid the Golden Gate Bridge this weekend, as a major approach to the bridge comes down.
Doyle Drive, which links the bridge to San Francisco, will close starting at 8 p.m. on Friday. Crews will then work through the weekend to demolish it and replace it with a temporary bypass.
That bypass is expected to be up and running at 5 a.m. on Monday.
Although the bridge will stay open during the construction work, traffic onto and off of it will be rerouted. That is expected to create major delays.
Transportation officials, instead, recommend that people traveling between the North Bay and San Francisco take the Golden Gate Ferry. Drivers should go to the East Bay and take the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
