Posted by Staff
newsweb@everythinglubbock.com

LUBBOCK, TX  —  The Texas Department of Transportation  will be performing bridge deck work along the eastbound US 62/82 Marsha Sharp Freeway (MSF) at Milwaukee Avenue overnight on Monday and Tuesday morning (June 1-2).

This project was originally scheduled for last week but was postponed due to rainy weather. 

Concrete work to pour the westbound MSF bridge deck has also been scheduled for Thursday night (June 4-5) and Friday morning. North- and southbound Milwaukee Avenue will be closed to traffic beginning at 9 p.m., both nights, with the work completed and roadway reopened to traffic by 6 a.m., the following morning. 

Northbound Milwaukee traffic will detoured east to Loop 289 where drivers can use the turnarounds to return to Milwaukee to continue north. Southbound Milwaukee will be detoured west on US 62/82 to Upland Avenue. 

The MSF main lanes will be reduced to one lane of travel when crews are working on the respective bridges and both east- and westbound 

MSF traffic will not be allowed to turn left onto Milwaukee and pass under the bridges during the operations.

The Milwaukee Avenue closures will give contractor Haydon Construction the space needed to pour the new MSF bridge decks and stage equipment for the operation. Work will take place weather permitting.

(Information provided by TxDOT, Lubbock District)