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Weather permitting, tomorrow Seventh Street/US-169 will close between Kansas Avenue and Interstate 70 in Kansas City, KAn., for concrete placement of the new Seventh Street Bridge deck in Wyandotte County. Seventh Street/US-169 will close starting at 7 p.m. on Friday and will reopen to all traffic at 5:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 25.

This is the first of two planned closures for the concrete placement on the new bridge deck. The second closure is tentatively planned for Friday, Sept. 19.

Advance message boards have been placed to alert drivers to the lane closure. Marked detours will be provided. Southbound traffic will detour via westbound I-70 to 18th Street to Kansas Avenue and northbound traffic will detour via Kansas Avenue to 18th Street to eastbound I-70 to Central Avenue. The ramp from eastbound I-70 to Seventh Street has been closed for this bridge replacement and will be throughout the duration of the project. The ramps to and from westbound I-70 will remain open.

Speed limits will be reduced to 60 mph through the project work zone. Drivers should expect major delays and are advised to use alternate routes, if possible. Updated daily lane closure information for this bridge replacement project can be viewed online at: http://www.ksdot.org/kcmetro/laneclose.asp

This work is part of a bridge replacement project that began in February 2007 for the Seventh Street/US-169 Bridge. Hawkins Construction Company is the primary contractor on this bridge replacement project with a total contract cost of $18.2 million. The scheduled completion date for the entire project is late December 2008.

The Kansas Department of Transportation urges all motorists to be alert, obey the warning signs, and slow down when approaching and driving through the project work zone.

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