Wheel Genius: Road work this week

Among significant projects expected to affect drivers this 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.

• Wakarusa Drive, from Sixth to Inverness Drive, is set to be reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction for replacement of a drainage catch basin.

• A section of East 902 Road, below the Clinton Lake dam, remains 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.

• 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, 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 right lane for traffic headed west on Sixth, from Folks Road to the intersection with Wakarusa, continues to be 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 remains limited to one lane.

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

• 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.

Interstate 70

• Work is set to begin Monday to replace expansion joints on a bridge carrying traffic headed west on Interstate 70, heading over Seventh Street in Wyandotte County. Work is scheduled to occur during daylight hours Mondays through Fridays and occasionally on Saturdays. The ramp onto Seventh will be closed beginning Monday, and traffic will be directed to use the 18th Street exit, then get back on I-70 to head east back to Seventh. Once work is finished for lanes carrying traffic headed west, crews will switch to lanes for traffic headed east.

Interstate 435

• Traffic headed south on Interstate 435 remains 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.