Interstate work crews to take holiday weekend off, resume Tuesday
The Post and Courier
Friday, August 29, 2008
Road crews working to add new bridges and widen Interstate 26 to eight lanes through three miles of North Charleston are taking the holiday weekend off. Workers will return Tuesday to concentrate efforts in the vicinity of Remount Road, where footings for a new bridge will be built and new on- and off-ramps are being added, said James Law of the State Department of Transportation. Starting Tuesday, motorists can expect nighttime lane closures in the westbound lanes of I-26 near Remount Road, said Earl Capps of U.S. Group, the principal contractor for the $66 million project between Ashley Phosphate Road and the Mark Clark Expressway. The 39-month project will take the freeway from six lanes to eight lanes to ease the crush of rush-hour traffic on the heavily congested road. It will also add new ramps and bridges to Remount Road and Aviation Avenue. "We have been working them day and night," Capps said. "They will have Labor Day and the whole weekend off." Read more in Saturday's editions of The Post and Courier.
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