Update for Week of July 1
- No work planned over the July 4th holiday weekend
Work Scheduled:
- Building approach pavement to widened southbound Route 65 Farmer’s Branch bridge
- Preparing median for new shoulders along the new inside lanes of Route 65
- Evan’s Road bridge work
- Installing new guardrail
- Reinstalling traffic signal detector loops in the pavement at the bridge
- Applying pavement striping
- Stripping forms from bridge
- Applying grass seed and mulch to areas around the bridge
Traffic Impacts:
- Possible nighttime lane closings on Route 65 between Evans Road and Christian County Routes CC/J. Work hours: 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.
- Equipment moving in and out of work areas
- No lane closings from noon Wednesday, July 3, until Monday, July 8
Here’s a look at the Route 65/Evans Road Bridge project:
- Widen Route 65 to six lanes — three lanes in each direction — between a point south of Evans Road and Christian County Routes CC/J to continue the progress to six lane Route 65 south to Ozark
- Widen and rehabilitate southbound Route 65 bridge over Farmer’s Branch south of Evans Road to accommodate new lanes
- Rehabilitate Evans Road bridge over Route 65
- Prime contractor is Millstone Weber, LLC of St. Charles
- Estimated total project cost is $10.2 million
- Project scheduled for completion late summer 2019
- Project website
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