23rd Street traffic shifted onto new bridge between Haskell and Barker avenues

Westbound traffic on 23rd Street between Haskell Avenue and Barker Avenue travels on the new bridge Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. During construction of the bridge, 23rd Street traffic had been moved onto shoo-fly detours. Two westbound lanes and one eastbound lane are now open on the bridge. Crews soon will begin to remove the shoo-flies and complete work on frontage roads on each side of the bridge. This view is from the west end of the bridge looking east on 23rd Street toward Haskell Avenue.

Eastbound and westbound traffic on 23rd Street — between Haskell Avenue and Barker Avenue — has been shifted onto a new bridge.

During construction of the bridge, 23rd Street traffic had been moved onto shoofly detours.

Two westbound lanes and one eastbound lane will be open on the bridge. Crews soon will begin to remove the shooflies and complete work on frontage roads on each side of the bridge.

Updated traffic information for the bridge replacement project is available at http://www.ksdot.org/topekametro/laneclose.asp.