Wheel Genius: Road work this week

Among projects expected to affect travel in Lawrence and the region during the coming week:

Lawrence

• City crews are scheduled to fill cracks this week on sections of Sixth Street, North Second Street, North Iowa Street and — during early-morning hours — the downtown area. Such work will close several hundred feet of a single lane at a time, with each closure lasting for a few hours.

• A section of East 902 Road, below the Clinton Lake dam, is closed for resurfacing. The city’s Mutt Run Dog Park is closed, and access to Eagle Bend Golf Course is limited to traffic coming in from the south on East 902 Road. The project is expected to last into May.

• The right lane for traffic headed west on Sixth Street, near Queens Road, is closed to accommodate widening of the street. The right-turn lane for traffic headed into St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church also is closed; through traffic should be aware of drivers slowing to turn into the church.

• The southbound lane of Massachusetts Street from 10th to 11th streets in downtown Lawrence is scheduled to be closed this week for replacement of crosswalks. The north side of Massachusetts’ intersection at Ninth Street also will be closed.

• Drivers may encounter brief periods of slow traffic as construction continues for a new U.S. Highway 59 between Lawrence and Ottawa.

• The right lane for traffic headed west on Sixth, from Folks Road to the intersection with Wakarusa Drive, is closed for extension of an existing right-turn lane. Traffic headed north on Wakarusa, from just south of Sixth to a point just south of Overland Drive, also is limited to one lane to accommodate work related to construction in the area.

• Wakarusa, from Sixth to Inverness Drive, is set to be reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction to accommodate road repairs.

• Drivers should expect delays while being directed through a work zone at 15th Street and Harper Avenue.

• Traffic continues to be limited along streets adjacent to the construction site for The Oread, near the northern end of Kansas University’s main campus. Among limitations for this week: Oread Avenue, closed to through traffic from 12th to 13th streets.

• Repaving projects are scheduled along West 22nd Court, Jenny Wren Road, Heatherwood Drive and West 27th Street.

Interstate 70

• Interstate 70 will have intermittent lane closures from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday from Gage Boulevard in Topeka to Maple Hill Road in Shawnee County, for sweeping operations.

Interstate 470

• Traffic headed east on Interstate 470 in Topeka will encounter intermittent lane closures from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday at the Huntoon/Wanamaker Road interchange, as crews work to repair a damaged guardrail.

Interstate 35

• Traffic along Interstate 35 from U.S. Highway 169 to Interstate 435 in Johnson County will face varying lane closures in both directions as crews patch pavement from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Interstate 435

• Traffic headed south on Interstate 435 continues to be limited to two lanes crossing a bridge over the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Wyandotte County, about a third of a mile northeast of the interchange of I-435 and Kansas Highway 5/North 93rd Street.

Work is being conducted weekdays, during daylight hours, with occasional Saturday work.