![]() ![]() Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will invest $5.8 million to improve more than 1.5 miles of M-25 (Pine Grove Avenue) from Hancock Street to M-136 in the city of Port Huron and Fort Gratiot Township. M-25 Improvement Project in Port Huron and Fort Gratiot Township When those closures are scheduled by the contractor, the dates and detour routes will be announced.ĭespite experiencing delays in 2021, MDOT and its contractors anticipate having a majority of the work completed this year and all lanes of I-94, Portage Road and Kilgore Road reopened in December 2022. There also will be a 24-day total closure of Kilgore Road. There will be short-duration total closures of Portage Road for I-94 bridge demolition and later to set bridge beams. Two-way traffic will be maintained on each of those roads with a traffic shift, but motorists should expect congestion and delays, particularly during peak travel times. Work in 2022 also will include rebuilding Portage Road from Airview Boulevard to Bloomfield Avenue, and Kilgore Road west of Portage Road. Two lanes of traffic will be open on I-94 in each direction during this stage of the project, and detours for ramp closures will be posted. Work for the next couple months will focus on the median (drainage, new median barriers, and shoulder work) in preparation for shifting westbound traffic over to the eastbound lanes around June 1 as crews begin rebuilding westbound I-94 between Sprinkle Road and Lovers Lane, as well as several ramps at the Portage Road and Sprinkle Road interchanges: Portage Road to westbound I-94, westbound I-94 to Portage Road, and Sprinkle Road to westbound I-94. A video explaining the project is available on MDOT’s YouTube channel. The $87 million investment connects several I-94 expansion projects from west of US-131 to Sprinkle Road completed since 2008. The Portage Road interchange is being rebuilt with a single-point urban interchange, realigning Kilgore Road at Portage Road. This is the second year of work on the two-year project to widen 2.7 miles of I-94 from four to six lanes between Lovers Lane and Sprinkle Road in Kalamazoo. MDOT will be moving to the next phase of I-94 expansion in Kalamazoo starting April 9 as crews begin moving eastbound traffic onto the newly built lanes between Lovers Lane and Sprinkle Road. (MDOT) Other Projects Announced by Whitmer: 31 and territorial road bridges over I-94. Work will start next Monday, April 4, with crews sealing the new U.S. The website offers the public a living source of information, providing updates, project background and milestones, and other vital information. With such a storied history and detailed project, people are encouraged to visit the US-31/I-94 Connector StoryMap, created by the MDOT Southwest Region GIS unit to provide an overview of the project’s history and preview the stages of the project from design to completion. The southbound I-196 ramp to eastbound I-94 will be detoured from southbound I-196 to Red Arrow Highway Exit 1, east to M-140, then south to I-94. The eastbound I-94 ramp to northbound I-196 will be detoured on eastbound I-94 to M-140 Watervliet Exit 41, then back onto westbound I-94 to northbound I-196. The closures are expected to start Friday, April 15. This year’s work will include completing the I-94 BL interchange with I-94, which will require closing and detouring the eastbound I-94 ramps to northbound I-196, and from southbound I-196 to eastbound I-94. More information on this project from the Michigan Executive Office of the Governor:Ĭrews will continue work to complete 1.8 miles of new US-31 lanes and the connection to I-94. The work is expected to be completed by mid-November. Throughout this work, two lanes will be open in each direction on I-94. The following week on Monday, April 11, I-94 traffic will be shifted onto the westbound lanes to allow crews to rebuild 3.5 miles of eastbound I-94 from Britain Avenue to east of I-196. There will be nighttime double-lane closures on I-94 for a week to complete this work. 31 to I-94, rebuild I-94 Business Loop (BL) (Main Street) and the I-196/I-94 interchange, and rebuild I-94 between Britain Avenue and I-196 in Benton Township. MDOT will be completing the three-year, $121.5 million investment to connect U.S. Gretchen Whitmer announced on Monday that multiple road rebuilding projects are expected to begin next week across the state, and one of them is right here in Michiana. ![]()
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