Wheel Genius: Road work this week

A holiday week is no time to get caught in traffic on the way to work, to the mall or to grandmother’s house. Government and agency officials report projects and detours in the area that could affect your driving:

Lawrence

• Ongoing construction of The Oread — a mixed-use and hotel project — continues to limit traffic north of the Kansas University campus, and the restrictions are scheduled to last into spring. Among them: 12th Street, closed to westbound traffic from west of Louisiana Street to Indiana Street; Indiana, closed to traffic from 12th to a half block south; and Oread Avenue, restricted to local traffic only from 12th to 13th streets.

U.S. Highway 169

• The U.S. Highway 169/Seventh Street bridge in Wyandotte County is scheduled to open to all traffic at 4 p.m. Monday, weather permitting, said Kim Qualls, of the Kansas Department of Transportation. The $18.2 million project replaced a bridge that had been built in 1924.

Interstate 70

• Bridge replacement work in Wyandotte County has closed the Seventh Street Trafficway ramp for eastbound traffic on Interstate 70. The work is expected to last through the end of December.

Interstate 35

• Traffic flow has returned to normal at the site of an I-35 interchange at Lone Elm Road in Johnson County. Traffic on the interstate had been squeezed into two narrower lanes in each direction since July.

Kansas Highway 7

• Construction of a new interchange in Wyandotte County for Kansas Highway 7 at U.S. Highways 24-40 has closed all ramps at the interchange, and has limited traffic heading north and south to one lane in each direction along K-7, from 130th Street to Parallel Parkway.

Traffic heading east and west also has been squeezed to one lane in each direction along U.S. 24-40, from 130th to 142nd streets.