SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 23, 2019 (Gephardt Daily) — The Utah Department of Transportation is advising drivers to plan for overnight freeway closures on I-15 in Lehi this week.
Northbound I-15 will be closed between Lehi Main Street and 2100 North for four nights, according to a UDOT news release.
From Tuesday through Thursday night, the closure starts at 11 p.m. and continues through 4:30 a.m. the following day. On Friday night, the freeway will close at 11:59 p.m., and will reopen Saturday morning at 6 a.m., officials said.
Drivers will be detoured off the freeway at Lehi Main Street and then back onto the freeway via State Street and 2100 North. These closures are needed to allow crews to place beams for a new I-15 bridge, the news release said.
“After this closure, 50 percent of the bridge beams will have been placed on the project. A total of 285 beams are being placed to build 17 bridges along a four-mile section of the freeway.”
By late 2020, I-15 in Lehi will have two additional lanes in each direction, redesigned interchanges at SR-92 and 2100 North, a new one-way frontage road system, and more options for drivers to access the freeway and surrounding Lehi destinations.
Elsewhere in the state, overnight lane closures are scheduled on eastbound I-80 near Jeremy Ranch Monday night, Sept. 23.
Eastbound I-80 will be reduced to one lane from Monday at 8 p.m. to Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 4 a.m.
Also during this time, drivers should expect up to three “rolling closures,” where Utah Highway Patrol troopers will stop all traffic in the eastbound lanes for 15 minutes, officials said.
“While these closures are in place, crews will remove the electronic sign over the freeway and install a new one as part of a project to replace these signs in various locations along the Wasatch Front,” the news release said.
