The Interstate 95 overpass crosses Broadway in Bangor in this 2017 file photo. Credit: Nick Sambides Jr. / BDN

Construction will reduce southbound traffic on Interstate 95 in Bangor to a single lane on Wednesday.

The Maine Department of Transportation will close one lane of the highway where it passes over Broadway from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to set up equipment and protect workers, according to MDOT. As a result, only one lane will remain open to traffic.

The northbound traffic will not be affected.

The work is part of an ongoing $30.6 million project to replace bridges and enhance intersections, started in 2023 and expected to wrap up in late 2026.

In recent years other I-95 bridges in Bangor have been replaced, including the Ohio Street bridge in 2020 and the Union Street bridge in 2016.

The 152-foot steel girder bridge over Broadway, built in 1960, is crossed about 50,000 times daily and is in “poor condition,” transportation officials have told the Bangor Daily News.

Ethan Andrews is the night editor. He was formerly the managing editor at The Free Press and worked as a reporter for The Republican Journal and Pen Bay Pilot.

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