Construction season is just around the corner.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation held a public meeting Tuesday to outline the I-39/90 expansion project and provide more details on the upcoming closures.
According to the DOT, the ramp from Highway 26 to I-39/90 northbound will be the first to close this spring for around four months. Next spring, the ramp from I-39/90 northbound to Highway 26 will close for three months.
Around the same time in 2020, the Highway 14 ramp to the northbound interstate will close, and then that fall, the Highway 26 ramp to southbound I-39/90 will close for 10 months.
In the summer of 2021, the ramp from the southbound interstate to Highway 26 will close for six weeks, the DOT says.
Highway 26 will close completely under the interstate for three nights this upcoming April and May as crews work on the bridge, and the same will happen at Highway 14 at the end of May.
Kennedy Road under the interstate will close for three to four months starting next month, according to the DOT.
The Highway 26 interchange is being converted into a diverging diamond, similar to what the DOT built at the Avalon Road/Highway 11 interchange.
The on and off ramps at Highway 26 and Highway 14 will have collector-distributor lanes similar to what they built near Madison at the Highway 151 exit.
In 2022, the Department of Transportation will turn its attention to the Highway 14 reconstruction, closing the portion of Humes Road between Milton Avenue and Pontiac Drive from April to October of that year.
The DOT is also building a new street, Ryan Road, to connect Morse Street and Deerfield Drive underneath the interstate between Milwaukee Grill and Walmart.
They have not determined yet whether the speed limit on I-39/90 will remain at 70 miles per hour or go back down to 55 during construction.
