The Michigan Department of Transportation has announced that a section of Interstate 75 will be closed for 2 years, starting in February 2017.
The stretch of highway will be closed in order to rebuild the I-75 Rouge River Bridge in Detroit. The bridge is at the end of its life-cycle and is laden with potholes. It was deemed “structurally deficient” in early 2015.
According to MDOT’s press release, the entire concrete surface of the bridge will be removed and replaced.
Over the 2 year project, southbound I-75 traffic will be detoured to I-96, then to I-275, then back to I-75. Northbound travel lanes will stay open, but may shift around and be subject to temporary closures.
The cost of the project is estimated at $149 million, and also includes some repairs to other smaller bridges in the area.
The Detroit News published the following map of the closures.
The project was in planning for the last six year and will take the entirety of 2017 and 2018 to complete.