Among road projects scheduled for the area this week:

Lawrence

• A private contractor’s utilities inspections are scheduled to close one lane of traffic on the southbound North Second Street bridge. The closure is set for 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

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

• 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.

• Work on steam tunnels at Kansas University will close sections of three streets beginning Monday: Mississippi Street, from Jayhawk Boulevard to Memorial Drive, through Aug. 10; Sunflower Drive, from a loading dock at Watson Library to a parking lot at the main Facilities Operations building, through Aug. 10; and Wescoe Drive, beginning at Sunflower Drive and extending west behind Stauffer-Flint Hall, until June 15.

U.S. Highway 24

• Beginning Monday, traffic heading east on U.S. Highway 24 will be unable to use the right lane from Kansas Highway 4 to Kansas Avenue, as crews will be repaving the highway. Beginning Tuesday, the right lane for traffic headed west is expected to close in the same area. All work is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, to be finished Friday.

U.S. Highway 69

• The right lane will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday for traffic heading north on U.S. Highway 69, from College Boulevard to Interstate 435, for pavement repairs in Johnson County. The repair work will switch to the two left lanes from 8 p.m. Monday through 6 a.m. Tuesday.

• Bridge-painting work is scheduled to close the right lanes for ramps heading from U.S. 69 to eastbound I-435, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday in Johnson County.

Kansas Highway 7

• Traffic on K-7 remains limited to one lane in each direction from 55th Street/Johnson Drive to Shawnee Mission Parkway, in Johnson County, for road-construction work. The lane restrictions are expected to last into late June.

• The left lane of K-7/U.S. Highway 73 is closed for traffic headed north from a point south of Gilman Road in Leavenworth County. The lane is expected to reopen late this month.

Turner Diagonal

• The ramp connecting the southbound Turner Diagonal to eastbound Interstate 70 will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday for overhead sign work in Wyandotte County.