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Broadway in Bangor will be closed to traffic for two nights next week for ongoing interstate bridge construction.
That will allow crews to erect and install structural steel bridge beams on the southbound side of Interstate 95, according to the Maine Department of Transportation.
The closures will be in place from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Drivers should follow posted detour signs.
While traffic will be diverted around the construction, flaggers will help pedestrians navigate the worksite, the Department of Transportation said Friday morning.
It’s the latest step toward the eventual replacement of the aging bridge carrying Interstate 95 traffic over Broadway. The 152-foot steel girder bridge, built in 1960, is crossed about 50,000 times daily and is in “poor condition,” transportation officials have told the Bangor Daily News. The Maine Department of Transportation expects to complete that work by late next year.
The project will cost more than $30 million.
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, while a yearslong project has begun to redo the Hogan Road interchange.