The Georgia Department of Transportation is checking the lanes this morning to ensure debris has been removed and expects to reopen the closed lanes as soon as possible, according to Crystal Paulk-Buchanan with the DOT.
Only the HOV lane has been open on the northbound stretches of I-75 and I-85 as road crews build a ramp from the Connector at 14th Street to the 17th Street Bridge. DOT crews had to move a total of 40, 130-foot beams, Paulk-Buchanan said. By early Sunday, all had been moved, she said.
DOT’s work has been completed earlier than anticipated. Three northbound lanes were originally expected to be closed until 5 a.m. Monday.
The DOT urged drivers to take Interstate 285 – if possible – to get around the city. And apparently, they’ve listened.
“It’s a sign that the traffic moved really well,” Paulk-Buchanan said. “It’s a tribute to folks showing patience.”
For at least 10 weekends, crews will be repaving the section north of 10th Street to where I-75 and I-85 split near 17th Street, the final leg of a project started last summer.
That project was not completed last year because repaving that leg of the highway would have interfered with the replacement of 14th Street Bridge. But the bridge contractor, C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., is now ready to finish repaving the Connector.
Last summer, there were epic traffic jams when crews ground up the Connector and laid new asphalt between University Avenue and 10th Street.
Labels: 10th street, Atlanta, connector, georgia dot
# posted by
Brian Vanderhoff @ 8:48 AM
