Crews to close I-440 ramp in Fortify zone this weekend
Construction crews will close a ramp from Interstate 440 West to Poole Road Friday evening so that workers can complete the section of the rebuilt ramp that merges onto Poole Road.
Posted — UpdatedThe closure is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Friday, weather permitting, and it will last throughout the weekend, state Department of Transportation officials said. The outside eastbound lane of Poole Road will also be closed throughout the weekend.
A signed detour will send motorists who want to access Poole Road in either direction to the next exit on I-440 West, which is Interstate 495/U.S. Highway 64/264 (Exit 14). They will go to the first exit, which is South New Hope Road (Exit 420) and turn left to get to Poole Road.
A similar closure is planned later this month for the ramp going from Poole Road to I-440 West.
Work on the outside lanes of I-440 West has been under way since traffic was shifted from those lanes to the newly built inside lanes in mid-July. Ramp and bridge work and the paving of those outside lanes will continue for the next several weeks.
The same traffic shift to the new inside lanes of I-440 East took place in mid-August, and crews are in the process of tearing up and rebuilding those outside lanes and ramps as well.
Crews are still scheduled to finish the I-440 section of the Fortify project by the end of 2014. The larger Interstate 40 section of the project, between the I-440/U.S. Highway 1/64 interchange in Cary and the I-440 split in southwest Raleigh, will begin in earnest next year.
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