A portion of Interstate 24 in Chattanooga will be closed this weekend and next, potentially causing a traffic mess, state transportation officials said.
I-24 west will be closed near the Belvoir Avenue bridge from 9 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Monday, with all westbound interstate traffic being diverted onto North Terrace near Oriole Drive and reentering I-24 at the South Germantown Road entrance ramp.
Next weekend, weather permitting, it’ll be the reverse.
This weekend’s closure will facilitate the completion of a new entrance ramp to I-24 west from North Terrace.
Contract crews “must implement a full directional closure of I-24 west near Exit 183 this weekend to tie in the new construction to the existing elevation of I-24 west,” agency spokesperson Rae Anne Bradley said in a statement. Westbound I-24 will be closed from “just past the Belvoir Avenue bridge to the I-24 west entrance ramp at Germantown Road.”