Wheel Genius: Road work planned during this week

Lawrence

• Beginning Tuesday, crews will start work to remove old pavement, repair damaged areas and repave and restripe East 23rd Street, from just west of Haskell Avenue to the city’s eastern border. The project is scheduled to last for four weeks, with milling operations to occur during the day and resurfacing work to occur overnight. One lane is to remain open in each direction for traffic during construction.

• Normal traffic flow is scheduled to be in place at North Second and Locust streets in North Lawrence, now that the intersection has been rebuilt.

• The Kansas Turnpike’s East Lawrence interchange, which is Exit 204, remains closed for reconstruction. It is scheduled to reopen by Thanksgiving.

• The city’s annual repaving program continues, with crews working on a number of residential streets. Pavement-patching and road-resurfacing work will cause intermittent delays on streets in North Lawrence.

• The right lane for traffic going north on Iowa Street is set to remain closed this week from Oxford to Yale roads. Harvard remains closed to through traffic from Iowa to Highland Drive; the eastbound lane will have intermittent closures from Westdale Road to Iowa.

• The 900 block of New York Street is closed to through traffic as crews work to restore it as a brick street.

• Crews will continue crack-sealing work, generally on streets east of Iowa Street. Temporary lane closures are expected, but no detours onto other streets are scheduled.

Kansas Highway 10

• The exit ramp for drivers heading west on Kansas Highway 10 to turn onto Kill Creek Road in Johnson County will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday for resurfacing work.

U.S. Highway 24

• Mud Creek bridge along U.S. Highway 24, east of Lawrence Municipal Airport, remains limited to one lane of traffic as crews add pavement to the bridge deck. Expect delays, as traffic is governed by temporary traffic signals expected to be in service until late fall.

Interstate 70

• Drivers on the Kansas Turnpike just east of Lawrence are limited to one lane in each direction as crews rebuild turnpike lanes from just east of the interchange to a point just west of the Lawrence service area. The limits will be expected to remain until just before Thanksgiving; the service area is scheduled to remain open throughout construction.

• Westbound I-70 is reduced to one lane from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily except Sundays, extending from 3.3 miles just west of Urish Road to Danbury Lane and also from just east of Carnahan Avenue to the Kansas Turnpike Authority east toll booth plaza, all in Shawnee County, for concrete repair work. Work is scheduled to be finished in October.

• Work continues where I-70 and Interstate 435 connect in Wyandotte County. The northbound I-435 to westbound I-70 ramp will remain closed until early August. The westbound I-70 to southbound I-435 ramp will remain closed through late July.

• The ramp for traffic traveling east on Interstate 70 to go onto Kansas Highway 7 closed Friday and was expected to remain so through the weekend — and possibly longer — after an oversized semitrailer went under the bridge and caused damage. Crews must inspect the bridge damage to determine what repairs will be needed. Kim Qualls, a KDOT spokeswoman, says that says eastbound I-70/Kansas Turnpike traffic entering onto K-7 will enter on the left side of the ramp over the ramp bridge. Eastbound I-70/KTA traffic exiting K-7 will be directed to 110th Street to turn around and head back to exit to K-7. Drivers should expect delays and are advised to use alternate routes if possible, she says.

Interstate 435

• The southbound right lane of Interstate 435 will be closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday from Woodend Road to Holliday Drive in Johnson County for bridge inspection work.