The state Department of Transportation is finally going to replace a log guardrail that was demolished in a car crash earlier this year.

But the project is going to snarl traffic at Deception Pass Bridge as the summer tourist season kicks into gear.

Traffic over the bridge will alternate from 6 a.m. to noon on Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8, as workers repair the guardrail. People traveling in the area should expect delays, WSDOT warns.

The guardrail and bollards near the bridge look essentially the same as they did when the bridge was built 90 years ago.

“WSDOT has its own trees that we use when we need to replace this type of guardrail and our crews rebuild the bollards to keep with the historical look and feel of those from the 1930s when they were originally constructed,” RB McKeon, communications manager for WSDOT, wrote in a press release.

For years, one of Island County Commissioner Jill Johnson’s top legislative agendas was to convince state lawmakers to replace the logs and rock bollards with alternatives that look the same but comply with modern safety standards. A multi-million dollar project replaced most of them on the Skagit side of the bridge, starting at Pass Lake, but the old style remains close to the bridge on Whidbey.