The closures are part of a nearly $26 million project remedying stretches of highway in central San Antonio.
SAN ANTONIO — Crews with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) are starting to ramp up work after the holiday season, and that means new closures that drivers should be aware of.
That includes those who navigate the downtown San Antonio area on a regular basis.
TxDOT officials announced that, starting Tuesday morning, alternating main lanes of Northbound Interstate 35 between I-10 and I-37 – a roughly 1.8-mile stretch of the highway skirting the north end of downtown – will close for bridge joint repairs.
The closures are expected to last through the end of March, after which the same stretch of I-35 heading southbound will undergo similar repairs.
The work impacting downtown-area traffic is part of an overarching, $25.9 million project that is seeing crews tending to stretches of I-10 and I-35 in the area for road resurfacing, structure repairs and bridge joint fixes. TxDOT also demolished and rebuilt the I-35 exit ramp to Brooklyn and McCullough avenues as part of the project.
Seven phases in all make up the project; one of those is complete as this point. Phase 2 is currently underway. TxDOT has said the project is expected to be finished later this year.