Part of Highway 99 in Modesto was supposed to close at night this week. There’s a new plan
The contractor on the new Highway 132 segment has postponed the overnight closures planned this week on Highway 99.
They instead will happen the nights of Oct. 18-21 on northbound 99 between G Street and Kansas Avenue. The lanes will close at 10 p.m. and reopen at 4 a.m.
The initial plan was to close these lanes overnight from Monday to Thursday, Oct. 11-14.
The closures are needed so workers can remove the temporary steel and wood structure supporting the new 132 bridge across 99.
Next week, northbound drivers can exit 99 downtown and follow a detour on Sixth, Washington and Eighth streets and Kansas.
The project is shifting three miles of 132 off Maze Boulevard to a new corridor just south of Kansas. Construction started in late 2019 and could finish by the end of this year.
Bay Cities Paving & Grading of Concord has a $92 million contract for the project, funded from local, state and federal sources.
The project will provide two lanes and a median with no cross traffic between Dakota Avenue and Needham Street. Transportation planners hope to fund future phases resulting in four lanes from Needham to Gates Road.
Two other bridges in the first 132 phase already have opened, carrying Carpenter Road and Rosemore Avenue over the new corridor.
Another set of traffic restrictions is scheduled to end Oct. 22 on several streets in the area of Kansas and Mercy Avenue. They were imposed July 22 to allow relocation of sewer lines for the 132 project. Street segments have been either closed entirely or limited to local and emergency traffic.
This story was originally published October 11, 2021 at 11:44 AM.
