Traffic on Interstate 85 through west Charlotte, N.C., will be detoured onto a temporary freeway at the site of a new interchange starting this weekend.
According to the The Charlotte Observer, the three-quarter-mile detour will be in place for a year while the state builds an interchange with I-485. Northbound traffic will be shifted started this weekend, while southbound traffic will be detoured starting the weekend of July 13-14.
The detour will take drivers down a valley and beneath an I-485 ramp bridge. Then they will climb a hill before returning to the existing highway. Southbound drivers will detour across the median and empty northbound I-85 lanes and down to the detour, then back again.
I-85 is a major truck route to Charlotte and Atlanta. When the new interchange opens in early 2004, it will have six bridges, two loops and eight ramps.
According to the The Charlotte Observer, the three-quarter-mile detour will be in place for a year while the state builds an interchange with I-485. Northbound traffic will be shifted started this weekend, while southbound traffic will be detoured starting the weekend of July 13-14.
The detour will take drivers down a valley and beneath an I-485 ramp bridge. Then they will climb a hill before returning to the existing highway. Southbound drivers will detour across the median and empty northbound I-85 lanes and down to the detour, then back again.
I-85 is a major truck route to Charlotte and Atlanta. When the new interchange opens in early 2004, it will have six bridges, two loops and eight ramps.
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