MDOT TRAFFIC ROAD CLOSURES FULL
He added that there are big benefits to the local community and with the full freeway closures, it’s a much safer project to construct for both workers and the motoring public – adding everything is progressing well with no hiccups. Stevenson said once the project is done, there will be a new surface in place that will last 12 to 15 years and they won’t have to interrupt traffic again for quite a while. In those cases, that detour would be continued from Clyde Road south to Spencer Road and traffic will take the detour along Old US-23. Stevenson noted that there will be some times where they’ll have to close the ramps at M-59 to complete southbound paving work. Stevenson said the detour route has been working surprisingly well and they anticipated a lot more traffic impact but it was well designed and thought out by MDOT and seems to be working very well. The detour for northbound US-23 will have traffic exit at Spencer Road and proceed east to Old US-23, then north to M-59, where motorists can go east to get back on US-23 at the M-59 interchange. Once that culvert is constructed, paving will be completed on southbound US-23 and both directions of the freeway will open back up to traffic. Later in the summer once paving is completed for northbound US-23, Stevenson says they’ll work on a crossover that will take motorists from the southbound side of the freeway to the northbound side and they’ll reconstruct a box culvert between Bitten Lake and Long Lake. Those full closures are needed for the bulk of the project, which involves paving both northbound and southbound US-23 along with drainage improvements.Īdditionally, the ramps from southbound US-23 to M-59 will be closed starting at 6pm Tuesday, July 5th through 5am Saturday, July 9th. At night, there will be a complete closure of a roughly 8-mile stretch on US-23 from Spencer Road up to M-59, with traffic detoured along Old US-23.įull closures will start around 9pm and the freeway will re-open around 6am. During the day, motorists can expect to encounter individual lane closures and some shoulder closures. Project Engineer John Stevenson tells WHMI there is both day and nighttime work taking place. Those closures are anticipated to be in effect through late July or early August. Those will start at 6pm and re-open at 5am. Then starting on Tuesday night after the holiday weekend, there will be ongoing nightly closures on southbound US-23 from Spencer Road up to M-59 for additional rebuilding. The Michigan Department of Transportation advises that the ramps from M-59 to northbound US-23 will be closed Thursday night, June 30th, from roughly 9pm to 6am for shoulder gravel and sidewalk work at the entrance ramp from M-59 to northbound US-23. The project also includes new entrance and exit ramps and preventative maintenance to 17 bridges, including the Clare Street, Hungerford Street, Capitol Avenue and Grand Avenue bridges this year, MDOT said.Jessica Mathews / County motorists and others can expect to encounter nightly closures on US-23 for roughly the next month as part of a larger, ongoing project. "Using the service drives for detours, full access to the area can be maintained with additional traffic on the service drives being the only major impact to users." "Additionally, crossing over traffic would have made it very expensive to maintain easy access to the downtown area," he said in an email. The agency determined it would take an extra year to do the project if it closed one side at a time or used the more typical method of lane closures and crossover lanes to maintain traffic in each direction, Jenkins said. That's a different configuration than MDOT used during the recent I-496 rebuilding project in Eaton County, when one side of the freeway was closed at a time. MDOT said it plans to keep two lanes open on both service drives. Westbound traffic will be diverted to St. Traffic will be maintained, but with various lane closures. They expect to shut down the freeway between MLK and the Grand River by June 13 and detour all traffic onto the service drives, he said.Įastbound traffic will be cut to one lane and diverted onto Malcom X at MLK. Milling existing pavement, asphalt resurfacing, curb repairs.
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