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Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Atlantic Avenue Closed This Weekend
If your weekend activities include a drive on West Atlantic Avenue near the turnpike, pull out Plan B.
Atlantic will be closed under the turnpike from 6 a.m. Saturday until about 9 p.m. Sunday.
Construction crews will be tearing down the old southbound bridge and Atlantic will be covered with tons and tons of debris.
The entrance and exits ramps will be open. But the northbound on and off ramps will be accessible only from the east and the southbound ramps will only be accessible from the west.
It’s all part of the ongoing project to rebuild the Atlantic overpass.
A couple of weeks ago, traffic was moved to the new southbound overpass. Once the old southbound bridge is demolished, the middle piece of the new overpass will go up.
Then northbound traffic will shift to the new overpass, the old northbound bridge will be leveled and the final section of the new overpass will be built.
Sounds kind of complicated, but at least two lanes of traffic in each direction will be maintained throughout the duration of the work.
True, there are some delays. Like this morning, southbound traffic began to back up two miles from the exit.
Some of the delay is due to drivers staying in the right lane, which becomes the exit lane, until the last minute and cutting into traffic, causing the brake-light domino effect.
An orderly merge is something that just doesn’t happen in these parts.
