PHOENIX – Work on the Broadway Curve improvement project will require a section of eastbound Interstate 10 near Sky Harbor Airport to be closed from Friday night until Monday morning, transportation officials said.

Other projects are planned, and the Arizona Department of Transportation advises drivers to allow extra travel time and plan on using detours from Friday night, March 28, through Monday morning, March 31:

• Eastbound I-10 will be closed between the State Route 51 “Mini-Stack” interchange and US 60 from 10 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday for a traffic shift as part of the I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project. 

Eastbound I-10 on-ramps between Third Street (downtown Phoenix) and Baseline Road will be closed (including the southbound SR 51 ramp to eastbound I-10). The southbound I-17 connection to eastbound I-10 near Sky Harbor Airport will be closed. Southbound SR 143 ramps to eastbound I-10 also will be closed. Note: Some ramp closures start at 8 p.m. Friday. Primary detour: Eastbound I-10 traffic approaching the closure will detour to eastbound Loop 202 and can use southbound Loop 101 in Tempe to either westbound US 60 or westbound Loop 202. I-10 drivers also can avoid the closure by detouring on southbound/eastbound Loop 202 to reach I-10 near Chandler Boulevard. Note: Southbound I-17 on-ramps at Seventh Avenue and Seventh Street closed from 8 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday.

• Westbound Loop 202 will be closed between Alma School and Dobson roads from 11:30 p.m. Saturday to noon Sunday for message sign removal as part of a widening project.

The eastbound Loop 202 HOV lane will be closed between Dobson and Alma School roads. Westbound Loop 202 detour: Consider exiting ahead of the closure and using Germann or Pecos roads as alternate routes to travel beyond the closure.

• State Route 347 will be narrowed to one lane in both directions overnight at Cement Plant Road (Mammoth Way) and the Gila River Bridge north of Maricopa from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights for pavement maintenance.

Note: SR 347 will be narrowed to one lane in both directions overnight at Casa Blanca Road from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday and Monday nights.

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