Starting Sunday night, commuters on Interstates 75 and 24, and drivers in the Brainerd and East Ridge areas, will be met with lane closures and delays as work continues in preparation for an upcoming traffic shift.
Nighttime lane closures for work on the second phase of the state’s $161 million rebuild of the infamous split at the Tennessee-Georgia line will begin at 9 p.m. Sunday on I-75 in both directions between exit 1 at East Ridge and exit 3A for East Brainerd Road, according to state transportation officials. The work will continue through Tuesday night so the contractor can reconfigure portable concrete barrier walls.
“They will then move to I-24 east between Germantown Road and Belvoir Avenue on Wednesday and Thursday nights to add, reset and relocate portable concrete barrier walls in anticipation of a future traffic shift for this area,” the agency said in its weekly activity report. “It may be necessary to do short-duration rolling roadblocks during the day or night for patching potholes, clearing debris or repairing guardrails and attenuators.”
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The rolling roadblocks should last from 15 to 30 minutes, the agency said.