The following is a news release from TxDOT:

US 70 (North First Street) in Muleshoe is scheduled to be closed to traffic beginning Friday, Feb. 22, to allow the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company to safely perform routine maintenance work on the railroad crossing located between US 84 (East American Boulevard) and East Ash Avenue.

Traffic will be detoured around the area using US 84 and Dallas, Ithaca and Birch streets.

Northbound US 70 traffic will be detoured around the area using US 84 to either West Dallas Street or East Ithaca Street and onto either West or East Birch avenues.

Southbound US 70 traffic wanting to connect with southbound US 84 will be detoured to East Birch Avenue then to East Ithaca; to connect with northbound US 84, southbound US 70 traffic will be detoured at West Birch Avenue to West Dallas Street.

Work on the project is expected to wrap-up and the roadway reopened to traffic on Friday, March 1; weather permitting.

For more information, contact TxDOT Public Information Officer Dianah Ascencio at (806) 748-4472.

(News release from the Texas Department of Transportation in Lubbock)