MDOT Suspends Majority of Road Work Over Holiday Weekend

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is removing more than 65% of lane restrictions on state routes this weekend to accommodate July 4 holiday traffic. Beginning at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 2, and continuing until 6 a.m. Monday, July 6, 111 out of 164 projects statewide will be free of lane restrictions.

Following is a list of the work zones in the Upper Peninsula that will remain active, or have some lane restrictions, during the weekend:

• US-2 Cut River Bridge, Mackinac County, will remain closed with traffic detoured on Cut River Road and Prater Boulevard.

• M-64 in Ontonagon County will have temporary signals at the Townline Creek and Floodwater River bridges.

• US-2 in Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, will have lane reductions and a traffic shift.

• US-41/Shelden Avenue in downtown Houghton and US-41 through the Michigan Technological University campus, Houghton County, will be closed to throughtraffic. Northbound US-41 traffic will be detoured to Montezuma Avenue. Southbound US-41 traffic will be detoured on M-26, Sharon Avenue, and MacInnes Drive.