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Nightly Lane Closures This Week on Blanchette Bridge

MoDOT is moving utilities in preparation for major bridge rehabilitation work.

Beginning Monday, Jan. 9, motorists can expect overnight lane closures for utility work on the eastbound I-70 Blanchette Missouri River Bridge

The work is being done to prepare for the upcoming major rehabilitation work scheduled on the westbound I-70 Blanchette Bridge. The date for the start of the major westbound rehabilitation bridge work is not available yet. Construction is expected to start in 2012 lasting until the end of 2013.

The current work will move utilities off the westbound bridge and place them on the eastbound bridge.

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The Jan. 9-12 work will include the following closures:

  • Monday through Thursday nights, one lane closed eastbound I-70 at 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. 
  • A second lane and both of the Fifth Street ramps to eastbound I-70 will close at 9 p.m.

Similar nightly lane closures on the bridge could occur each week, Sunday
through Thursday nights, weather permitting until late March. The Fifth Street ramp closures will be limited to less than 2 weeks total.

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When the Fifth Street ramps to eastbound I-70 are closed, motorists will be detoured to use Veterans Parkway (the south outer road) west to the Route 94/First Capitol Drive interchange to access eastbound  I-70.


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