Wheel Genius: Road work this week

Projects and detours that could delay your travel during the first week of December across town in Lawrence, or your ride to and from work in the Kansas City metro area, according to government and agency officials:

Lawrence

• Ongoing construction of The Oread — a mixed-use and hotel project — continues to limit traffic north of the Kansas University campus, and the limitations are expected 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.

Interstate 70

• Bridge replacement work in Wyandotte County has closed the Seventh Street Trafficway ramp for eastbound traffic on Interstate 70.

• Repair work in Wyandotte County is scheduled to close the right lane for traffic headed east on I-70, from Interstate 435 to 78th Street.

The closure is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, and it is expected to be finished Monday.

Interstate 435

• Repairs of pavement markings will reduce northbound traffic to two lanes from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday from New Jersey Avenue to Parallel Parkway in Wyandotte County.

The work is set to be finished Monday.

• Utility work has reduced traffic to two lanes going north and south between Wolcott and Donahoop roads in Wyandotte County.

The work is scheduled to be finished Dec. 15.

Interstate 35

• Bridge work in Johnson County is scheduled to close the right lane for southbound traffic from 151st Street/U.S. Highway 169/Kansas Highway 7 to 175th Street.

Work is scheduled for 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday.

• Construction in Johnson County of an I-35 interchange at Lone Elm Road has squeezed traffic on the interstate into two narrower lanes in each direction.

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.