Connector work will close some lanes this weekend

The state Department of Transportation is closing Downtown Connector lanes this weekend for two projects. It looks like southbound drivers will have it worse, midday Saturday.

Daytime work is to wrap up loose ends on the Connector paving. Overnight work will allow for a major step on the 14th Street Bridge rebuilding: placing beams to hold up the bridge.

The schedule, according to DOT:

Southbound:

• Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., crews will close the inside HOV lane and exits connected to it, between 10th Street and University Avenue.
• Also Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and in a short stretch of road, they will close three inside lanes. That includes the HOV lane, and it goes from Williams Street to Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
• Every night from Friday through Tuesday, overnight from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., three southbound lanes, including the HOV lane, will close from 17th Street to 10th Street. On I-75 as it approaches the merge with I-85, crews will close the HOV lane.

Northbound:

• Sunday from 7 a.m. to early afternoon, the inside HOV lane and related exits will close from University Avenue to 10th Street. DOT intends to finish all work before the Atlanta Falcons kick-off at the Georgia Dome at 4 p.m.